ONSET HOW ABOUT DEMENTIA? MORE DEMENTIA LET'S TALK ABOUT DEMENTIA EVEN MORE DEMENTIA
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Slow
Slow or fast?
100
Learn a new skill, travel, read, socialize, etc.
Name two ways to build cognitive reserve.
100
When cognitive functioning and emotional status tend to worsen in the evening.
What is "Sundowners"?
100
Alzheimer's Disease
Most common cause of irreversible dementia in people over 65 is
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calendar, address book, white board, phone, pill dispenser
Describe three items that might be found at a "memory station."
200
Acquired
Acquired or congenital?
200
Age and heredity
Two non-modifiable risk factors for dementia?
200
Total dependence
Describe feeding in late stage dementia.
200
It interferes with ADLs
How does dementia differ from MCI?
200
Sleep disturbances
Hallmark symptom that is used to differentiate Lewy Body Disease from other causes of dementia?
300
Global (except vascular dementia)
Global or localized?
300
Depression, medication, drug abuse, trauma, hormonal dysfunction, infection, metabolic disorders, heart disease, environmental toxins
Name two causes of reversible dementia.
300
Huntington's Disease
What disease is known for the slow, choreic movements which affect speech, walking, and swallowing?
300
Parkinson's Disease
L-Dopa is administered to slow tremors and prevent mental deterioration in people with:
300
Montessori
Treatment technique that prepares the environment with real objects that emulate a simple activity they have interest in.
400
Women.
Women or men more at risk?
400
Less education, hypertension, obesity, hearing loss, smoking, depression, physical inactivity, social isolation, diabetes
Name three modifiable risk factors for dementia.
400
Pick’s disease is known for behavioral abnormalities
What differentiates Pick’s disease from AD?
400
Frontal lobe (it is also called Frontal Lobe Dementia)
Pick's Disease primarily impacts what area of the brain?
400
Validation therapy
Therapy technique focused on listening emphatically without judgement
500
MAJOR NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDER
DSM-5 re-branded dementia as what term?
500
Loss of short-term memory, losing items, forgetting why they went somewhere, telling the same story, word finding difficulties, difficulties with verbal comprehension, personality changes
What are two of the first symptoms to appear in the early stages of dementia?
500
Parkinson's Disease
Micrographia is a symptom associated with what disease?
500
Vascular dementia
Type of dementia that causes a step-wise degeneration in functioning (versus more gradual) due to several strokes.
500
Describe two environmental modifications (indirect therapy techniques) that could be used for someone with dementia.






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