Mini-mental state examination

1. According to Natural Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, and LexiComp, it is not recommended that this patient take ginkgo extract as it has a high interaction with efavirenz, the effects and concentration of efavirenz may be decreased, and a moderate interaction with warfarin and may increase the risk of bleeding. 2. According to ACIP and the CDC website, it is recommended that this patient receive the Prevnar 13 vaccine. Adults aged 65 years or older who have not received PCV13, but…

assessment towards result to be achieved and powerlessness against an expectation. Hopelessness can occur in traumatic spinal cord injury survivors because of disability due to neurological deficit and a long time in healing. This condition can lead to mental disorders or emotional or act of suicide. Therefore the description of the experience of hopelessnesstraumatic spinal cord injury survivors…

Alzheimer’s disease, also known as AD, affects the older generations more so than any other form of dementia. AD is a progressive, multifactorial disease that affects the nervous system by interfering with proper cognitive functioning and memory, ultimately resulting in inability to function normally, and unfortunately death. Over time, several studies have identified two specific hallmarks of AD in the brain. These hallmarks include changes in amyloid B peptides which form senile plaques and…

Journal Article Citation: Andersen, F., Viitanen, M., Halvorsen, DS., Straume, B., & Engstad, TA. (2011). Co-Morbidity and Drug Treatment in Alzheimer’s disease. U.S National Library of Medicine, 11(58), n.p. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-58 Type of study (i.e. prospective cohort): This is a cross-sectional study on co-morbidity and drug treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in northern Norway. Sample/population: The sample included people who had and did not have Alzheimer’s disease. There were 187…

Laura’s grandfather has begun having memory problems. First, he would constantly forget where he placed his keys or his wallet. Then he would have trouble remembering to pay the bills or cooking dinner. One day, Laura took him shopping, and in the middle of the trip, while they were both using the restroom, Laura’s grandpa left. Laura spent many hours searching for him in the shopping area, but to no avail, she could not find him. When she returned home, she found him sitting on the couch, and…

Commentary After reading H.P.Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls, I was inspired to write this trilogy of short horror stories. It was the ending sentence that fully made me want to write thrilling and intense short stories, “the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.” – (The Rats in the Walls). I used prose-fiction as my literary form for Didn’t I, Click and Answer. These stories are for young adults and older because of the gory content the horror stories contain. My…

tolerability of ANAVEX 2-73," which is very vague. Can you discuss the use of this endpoint, and give us a better idea of how this will be measured? Secondary endpoints include "exploratory cognitive as well as functional measures using Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and evaluation of Alzheimer’s Disease Co-operative Study – Activities of Daily Living Inventory (ADCS-ADL), respectively." Can you discuss these measures? Are they appropriate and clinically relevant? What are important…

Through research it is shown that people over the age of 65 have a reduction in functional activities, visuoperceptual abilities, and physiological function. The elderly also tend to reduce weekly driving distances, do not maintain the speed limit, and have more crashes compared to most other age groups. We are looking to create safer driving conditions for older drivers while also making roadways easier to travel on from the perspective of other drivers as well. By creating a separate traffic…

Often times dementia is thought to be an interchangeable term for Alzheimer’s disease. However, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are two similar yet different terminologies that should not be used in exchange for the other. Dementia is a broad term that is frequently used to describe people with underlying brain disorders who experience memory, communication and cognitive deficits. Neurodegenerative disease is usually the underlying factor that causes dementia. People who have dementia are…

satisfy certain parental demands, which are usually not explicit. Freedom and material benefits are often given in return for behavior that reflects well on the family, such as making good grades or running few errands. Parents tend to see the teens as mini-adults. Indifferent Permissiveness This describes parents who are too involved with other things to take an active part in their teen's life. They tend to give material goods and freedom in return for the teen's not making too many…