The Problems Of Dementia Patients And Social Work In Research

In recent years, Dementia has become a disaster for elder people, affecting theirquality of life, and we are lack of specific therapy. Lost with dementia, and even theirfamily members are overwhelmed by the negative press, which has aroused the closeattention of the community. Now, the medical community have achieved a lot, but stillunable to come up with the methods of curing the dementia. Different disciplines havebeen carried a lot of research for dementia. It has opened up a new method for thetreatment of dementia, but each kind of method has certain limitations. The social workersthrough the professional idea, such as compassion, equality, use the relevant theories, forexample, social system theory, ABCX theory and so on. Under the guidance ofprofessional methods, they can carry out the case activities and group activities to help thedementia patients improve the quality of life, and test the MMSE of the dementia patients,the life ability and ADL evaluation.Objective: First, to verify whether the Social Work can slow down the dementia andimprove the quality of life for dementia patients.Second, use the casework and groupactivities for dementia patients, and unite their family members, and the old man, workers,doctors. To get the support and best effect.Methods: In the random sample of60with dementia, who are divided into theexperimental group and the control group. For one thing, social workers do cases every dayfor the experimental group.Even if there are special circumstances. Social workers mustsay hello to the elders in order to deepen the impression with dementia patients. Foranother thing, within six months, the social workers must carry out group activities everyweek to make them live rich and meaningful, in addition, make relevant records. The control group without the intervention of social workers just maintain normal life, andevery two months of testing MMSE assessment, operational capacity assessment, as wellas ADL assessment are tested.Results: The experimental group with intervention of social workers, the MMSE andother scores prove that the cases and group activities for dementia patients have certaindelay functions, and can improve the quality of life. It can also ease the pressure on thepeople around them, the whole environment becomes more harmonious. While the controlgroup, the basic lack of improvement or even a certain amount of deterioration. Of course,different age, educational level may have different results.Conclusion: In normal circumstances, with the intervention of social work may helpslow down the dementia. At the same time, we should advocate and popularize socialwork for dementia patients to realize the aim of improving the quality of life for them. Wecan find out the problems and put forward to corresponding solutions for dementia patientsand their family.