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