Dementia

[grandmacath]

Can anyone help me with this question please

Outline how memory impairment may affect an individual's ability to talk thanks

[woofgang]

what have you got so far?

[black_cat51]

in the nicest possible way, you need to find some learning strategies. Asking people to answer all the questions for you isn't helpful in the long term, no matter how helpful it may mean in the short term. NVQ is partly about learning on the job as well as answering these queestions, so really if you are struggling, perhaps you can try to relate these questions to your actual workplace, and what you have observed yourself. try to imagine yourself in the scenario. Active learning is so much more rewarding, and a useful life skill, than just getting other people to drip feed you the answers

[factor-fiction]

Imagine someone who can't remember some past events or think of certain words, or may not even recognise fully the person they are talking to

[Peter Pedant]

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Do a thought experiment: imagine a dementia sufferer in a conversation.
They're clearly not saying much.....

I initially thought it was because they had forgotten words and their meaning, but I think it is that they cant recollect who they are: who you are and what you ahve just said....

[sunny-dave]

It could be that the area of the brain which controls speech is damaged (though this only tends to happen in later stages of dementia).

It is most likely that the cognitive impairment of dementia is preventing the person from arranging their thoughts into a coherent sequence and so speech becomes fragmented.

There is sometimes a sudden flood of words, but equally they can be reduced to a frustrated silence by the inability to express themselves.

[sunny-dave]

Black Cat makes a valid point - and for that reason I don't think anyone here is going to write an essay or detailed answer.

But sometimes, if you are 'stuck', it is useful to have a few (brief) thoughts from other people to set you off in the right direction towards a full answer - or to receive pointers towards other resources that you may not know about.

[pixie373]

Word-finding problems are very common- or dysphasia- using different words to replace the words meant. Speaking is a mixture of sub-conscious and conscious, so often the right words or meaning will be in there somewhere.

[grandmacath]

Thank you all for your answers they were most helpfull I had put a few thoughts down like inability to find correct words ,replacing a word with a similar word putting words in wrong place ect