PPT-Dementia and Related Community Projects

Kingston Borough Neighbourhood watch Speakers Alison McWhinnie Chair Kingston Borough NHW Association PC Paolo Resteghini Mental Health Liaison Officer Kingston Police Introduction This presentation will cover the Kingston Borough NHW Dementia Project and other work that helps support this. Analysis of dementia prevalence rates by Delo itte Access Economics reveal coastal and regional NSW will continue to bear the brunt of increasing dementia prevalence rates while the metropolitan areas of the State will also experience a steady incre Interpersonal pragmatics / interactional sociolinguistics and cognitive impairment:. . Learning about what is retained and manipulated by persons with dementia (PWD) may help understand listener expectations about speaker competencies For PWD in institutional residencies, those institutions lower expectations for production and comprehension. Residents may be cared for, but are not expected to be coherent or fluent talkers (Davis & Pope 2011). . Eamon O’Shea. NUI Galway. Dementia Prevalence Rates . 2. Dementia Worldwide. An estimated 47 million people live with dementia in 2015 worldwide . The worldwide economic cost of dementia was an estimated US$808 billion in 2015. Jill Pendleton – Dementia Lead Liverpool. Ian . Mc. . Conville. - Riverside Life Enhancing Technologies Team Leader. Will Henderson – Clinical Research and Innovation Practitioner. Dementia can be defined as a set of symptoms that may include memory loss, difficulties with thinking, problem-solving and language problems. Vincent DelGiudice M.S. CFY-SLP. Vegas Voice Institute. Speech and Swallowing. Dementia affects not only a person’s memory, but their ability to use language. . Speech therapy can help with strategies for memory and conversational success. . . Mary . Guerriero. Austrom, PhD. Wesley P Martin Professor of AD Education. Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, IUSM. Director Outreach and Recruitment Core. Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center. A . carer’s. perspective. Barbara Pointon MBE. Former . carer. , . Ambassador for Alzheimer’s Society & Dementia UK. barbara@pointon.name. Malcolm in 1992, aged 51, just after he was diagnosed. Administration for Community Living. Erin Long. Office of Supportive and Caregiver Services. Administration on Aging. National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center sponsored by . the Administration for Community Living.. Basics. Developed by:. University . of Wisconsin Oshkosh . Center for Community Development, Engagement and Training  (CCDET). Wisconsin . Department of Health Services . Division of Quality Assurance . Dementia Friendly Community Planning Katherine Hebert, Centralina COG Healthy Community Design Specialist Linda Miller, Centralina Area Agency on Aging Director Susan Segrest , Central Alabama Aging Consortium Executive Director Age (greatest risk factor). Vascular risk factors: HTN, DM, CVD, stroke, smoking, dyslipidemia . Genetics: apo E genotype (late AD), PSEN1, PSEN2, APP (early AD) . Recurrent TBI or head trauma . Drugs: . Dementia is a serious brain disease that affects memory, ability to make decisions, daily functioning, as well as mood and behavior. Vascular dementia is a type of dementia caused by a stroke. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia and vascular dementia is the second most common for people age 65 and older. . Cheryl Demasi. Client Support Coordinator . Facts about Dementia. Currently, more than 20,000 Manitobans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.. The most common forms of dementia are Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy Body dementia and frontotemporal dementia.. . Linda Miller, . Centralina. Area Agency on Aging Director. Defining Dementia & Alzheimer’s. Dementia: . loss of memory and other mental abilities severe enough to interfere with daily life.