By Michael Bender
In accordance with the findings of study stories and at the author's lengthy adventure of operating with individuals with dementia, this paintings offers up-to-date views at the . It exhibits how proof is missing to aid the version of dementia as a disorder, and explores the probabilities of mental intervention for remediable or enduring cognitive losses. Taking a good examine what we actually learn about dementia and the way we will study extra, this could be worthy studying for clinical and psychological well-being practitioners, researchers and scholars operating within the box.
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1987) found a relationship between age and rate of decline; but they found the rate to be higher in patients with late onset. Katzman et al. (1988) failed to confirm that there is any relationship between age of onset and rate of decline. And while Haxby et al. (1992) did find a very rapid rate of decline in their two patients with early onset, they found no relationship between age and rate of decline after the age of 50. At present, therefore, the picture is inconclusive. 40–41) THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF THE STANDARD PARADIGM / 43 14.
David Snowdon and his colleagues had access to the records of 678 nuns who undertook cognitive tests, giving permission to access their records, and for an autopsy to be done on them. Snowdon (1997) reported on the sister of a convent: Sister Mary, the gold standard for the Nun study, was a remarkable woman who had high cognitive test scores before her death at 101 years of age. What is more remarkable is that she maintained this high status despite having abundant neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques, the classic lesions of Alzheimer’s disease.
Also, research data strongly suggests that being admitted to an institution accelerates mortality (Ballinger et al. 1988; Bowling et al. 1993; Shah et al. 1993), thus providing a major confounding variable (Gordon and Spicker in Hunter 1997). A recent, large study of community residents in East Boston, Massachusetts (Herbert et al. 134). 198) concludes: The expected survival of elderly individuals developing dementia does not greatly differ from that of elderly individuals not developing dementia, unless the onset of mental decline occurs before the age of 75.
