Unit 07 – Understanding Dementia Care

Scenario

Learners may use their own employment context to write an assignment based on assessment
tasks. Assessment tasks are learning outcomes of the unit associated with Assessment Criteria.
Assessment criteria are descriptions of requirements a learner is expected to meet to demonstrate
that a learning outcome has been achieved. Therefore, you are required to generate sufficient
evidence on assessment criteria to meet learning outcomes of the unit within the rules, regulations
and standards to achieve credits of the unit. If you are not in employment, please use the following
scenario.
Consider you are working a Care Professional for a public or private company that provide
information relating to Dementia with an aim to improve public health. Dementia is a growing
Healthcare issue in the UK. Many service users will have dementia and the associated
complications associated with it. This can seriously affect quality of life not only for the service
user but for their family and friends. The psychological and physical burden of caring for someone
with Dementia is huge. Your company line manager has asked you to write a report to identify
causes and effects of Dementia, examine the investigations associated with diagnosis Dementia
and then examine the treatment and Examine the treatment and support available for service users
with Dementia and their families by meeting the following tasks in line with general academic
guidelines. Your report will be used by the care unit within your organisation for improvement
purposes.

Task 1

.Understand the causes and effects of Dementia by meeting following A.C. (Assessment Criteria)
Guideline word count: 500-1000 words

A.C. 1.1. Discuss the reasons for increase in Dementia in the population
A.C. 1.2. Explain the signs and symptoms of Dementia

Task 2

Examine the investigations associated with diagnosis Dementia by meeting following A.C.
(Assessment Criteria)
Guideline word count: 800-1000 words

A.C. 2.1. Compare and contrast the available investigations associated with diagnosis of Dementia

Task 3

Examine the treatment and support available for service users with Dementia and their families by
meeting following A.C. (Assessment Criteria)

Guideline word count: 1200-1500 words

A.C. 3.1. Explain the Treatment and support available for service users when initially diagnosed
with Dementia
A.C. 3.2. Discuss the long-term complications associated with Dementia
A.C. 3.3. Explain the treatment and support available for service users at the end stages of
Dementia
A.C. 3.4. Explain the support available for families with relatives with end stage dementia

Overall word count guide: 2500 – 3500

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