Issues of Epilepsies at Clients of Protected Living Provided by Organisation Duha

This Dissertation deals with the issues of epilepsies of mentally handicapped clients of the protected living social service. Epilepsies are neurological diseases of the brain manifesting with epileptic seizures on a recurrent basis, occurring in a random way, mostly without having been provoked by an external impulse. The causes of their occurrence are both genetic and non-genetic. They occur all over the world, they affect people of any age or race. They even do not avoid people with mental handicaps, who have difficulties concerning cognitive, speaking as well as mobility capacities due to their incomplete mental development. The ability of learning from previous experience and to adapt to new life conditions and situations is rather limited for these people. All of this means serious complications of their treatment of this neurological disease, which itself is demanding enough. The basic manifestation of epilepsies is formed by epileptic seizures which start suddenly, last for a certain time period and they suddenly end in most cases. A very dramatic course is registered if the epileptic seizure is accompanied by a disturbance of consciousness. Then there arises a stress situation, both for the surrounding people and for the patient. For people with mental handicaps this is still complicated..