PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Problem Solving, Emotional Contagion
8 Dec 2015
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The importance of caregivers in the context of dementia. Cost of home-care increased over the last 4 years. ,000/year for each patient - ,000/ year for each patient. Could double over the next 30 years. If you have to help change the bed and clean < there is a cost to being a caregiver. Lack of knowledge about the condition of dementia inability to manage behaviours such as aggression and depression. Lack of knowledge about how to manage certain behaviours associated with depression: people with dementia can become more sexually active, experience more illusions, say random things. Caregiver distress is directly linked to behaviours of individual with dementia. Most common type of behavioural problem of dementia is apathy: total lack of affect. (example: dad is in bed and he doesn"t want to get up and do anything) Depression (does not laugh or show emotion like she used to) Attitude problems (yells at me more often)
