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18 Cards in this Set
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anticholinesterase drugs
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-slow the rate of memory lose and in some cases improve memory
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Common causes of delirium
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-infections
-medications -metobolic disorders -neurological disease -tumor -psychosocial stressors |
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Dementia
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-progressive deterioration of cognitive functioning and blobal intellegance with no change in consiousness
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Potential causes of AD
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-alzheimers tangles
-genetic factors -environmetal factors |
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confabulation
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-creation of stories or answers in place of actual memories(unconsious_
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preservation
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-the repitition ofphrases or behavior
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cardinal symptoms of AD
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-amnesia-aphasia
-apraxia -agnosia -disturbances in executive functioning |
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aphasia
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loss of language ability
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apraxia
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-loss of perpoful movemnt in the absense of motor or sensory impairment
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agnosia
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-loss of sensory ability to recognize objects
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agraphia
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inability to read or write
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hyperorality
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-the ned to taste, chew or put somehing into ones mouth
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hypermetamorphisis
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the need to touch everything in sight
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AD: stage 1
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-short term memory loss
-ues memoy aids -aware of the problem -not diagnosable |
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AD : stege 2
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-progessive memory loss
-withdrawn -decline in adl's -denial -depression -needs supevision |
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AD stage 3
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-losses of adls
-loss of reasoning ability -frstration -depression -difficulty communicting -evidence of reduced stres threshold |
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AD Stage 4
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-family recognitin disappears
-non ambulatory -forgets how toeat incontinent -institutionalized return of primitive reflexes |
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AD
Interventions |
-Counseling and Communication
-health teaching/promotion -pharmacological interventions -intergrative therepy |
