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1
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What brings special pressures, unique upsets, and major biological changes

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old age

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Living on a fixed income, running out of money are two what related to aging

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pressures related to aging

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Elder abuse, health problems of age, arthritis are what related to aging

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unique traumatic experiences and biological abnormalities related to aging

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4
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Largest generation ever

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baby boomers

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The percentage of elderly people in the population is expected to be more than _____ percent in 2030

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20

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Field of psychology dedicated to the mental health of elderly people

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GEROPSYCHOLOGY

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Percent of elderly that would benefit from mental health services and percent that actually receive them

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50 percent, 20 percent

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The psychological problems of elderly persons may be divided into two groups

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Disorders, Disorders of cognition

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Term for problems may be common in people of all ages but are connected to the process of aging

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disorders of aging

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Term for problems that result from brain abnormalities

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Disorders of cognition

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Depression, anxiety, and substance use among the elderly fall in the category of aging

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disorders of aging

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Delirium, mild neurocognitive disorder, major neurocognitive disorder are three elderly disorders that fall in the category of aging

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disorders of cognition

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One of the most common mental health problems of older adults, mostly women, raises risk of suicide

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depression

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Another mental disorder common among the elderly, more common among women

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anxiety disorders

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The most prevalent anxiety disorder among the elderly

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general anxiety disorder GAD

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Leading kind of substance abuse among the elderly, often unintentional

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Prescription drug misuse

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Another form of substance abuse among the elderly, occurs in institutions where patients need most care, often occurs when medication is stolen or over-medication

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Nursing home medication misuse

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With age, ___________ increase, and they may occur regularly by age 60 or 70

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memory difficulties and lapses of attention

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Most cognitive problems come from ________, particularly when they appear in later life

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disease

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20
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DELIRIUM, NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDER, and MILD NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDER

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leading cognitive disorders among elderly persons

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Characterized by a major disturbance in attention and orientation to the environment, lose track of day, time of day, very noticeable, sometime hallucinations, agitated by confusion

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DELIRIUM

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Includes over the course of hours or a few days, the individual experiences fastmoving and fluctuating disturbances in attention and orientation to the environment

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Dx for delirium

23
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Collection of disorders characterized by significant decline in at least one area of cognitive function

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Neurocognitive Disorders

24
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Term for Memory and learning, Attention, Visual perception, Planning and decision making, Language ability, Social awareness, Personality and behavior changes

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areas of cognitive functioning

25
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Area of cognitive functioning describing confusion over visual images

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Visual perception

26
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Area of cognitive functioning describing inability to plan or make decision

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Planning and decision making

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Area of cognitive functioning describing inability to remember or learn things

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memory and learning

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Area of cognitive functioning describing inability to speak, eg stuttering, confabulation

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language ability

29
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Term for someone in the beginning stages of neurocognitive disorder where someone talks all around the issue to buy time to remember

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confabulation

30
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Area of cognitive functioning describing inability to behave properly in public

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social awareness

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Area of cognitive functioning describing person changing into someone you don’t even know anymore

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Personality and behavior changes

32
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Two different neurocognitive categories

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Major Neurocognitive Disorder, Mild Neurocognitive Disorder

33
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Major difference between major and minor neurocognitive disorder

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in major, cognitive deficits interfere with everyday dependence; in mild, deficits do not interfere with independence

34
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The occurrence of substantial cognitive decline is closely related to age. Fewer than _______ percent of all 60-year-olds have major neurocognitive disorders, compared with as many as _____ percent of those who are 85

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1 percent, 50 percent

35
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Most common type of neurocognitive disorder and accounts for as many as two-thirds of all cases, early onset is rare, most happens after 65

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Alzheimer’s Disease

36
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Early onset Alzheimer’s often has ______ component

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genetic

37
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6 steps of Alzheimer’s progression

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mild memory problems, trouble completing tasks and remembering, difficulty with simple tasks and personality changes, less awareness of limitations, fully dependent with no knowledge of past and not recognizing familiar faces, usually in good health until later stages of disease

38
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Senile plaques, Neurofibrillary tangles indicate

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structural brain changes of Alzheimer’s

39
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Found between neurons in the brain, indicates Alzheimer’s in an autopsy

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senile plaques

40
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Neurons that have died and shriveled, indicates Alzheimer’s in an autopsy

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Neurofibrillary tangles

41
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Alzheimer’s can only be definitively diagnosed when

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after death

42
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Researchers have found that this form of Alzheimer’ s disease can be caused by abnormalities in the genes responsible for the production of two proteins, involves familial transmission of genes

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Early-onset Alzheimer’s

43
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This form of the disease appears to result from a combination of genetic, environmental, and Iifestyle factors, APO-4 gene increases vulnerability

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Late-onset Alzheimer’s

44
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What factors for Alzheimer’s include damage to brain structures involved with recognizing people, prefrontal lobes, temporal lobes, diencephalon (mamillary bodies, thalamus, hypothalamus)

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biological factors

45
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What factors involved with Alzheimer’s involve chemicals for proper function of memory and production of proteins

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biochemical factors

46
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Four biochemicals involved with Alzheimer’s disease

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acetylcholine, glutamate, RNA, calcium

47
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Explanation of Alzheimer’s disease that includes zinc, lead, autoimmune, and viral

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Lther explanations of Alzheimer’s disease

48
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Most cases of Alzheimer’s disease can be diagnosed with certainty only after death, when an _______ is performed

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autopsy

49
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One assessment tool which reveals structural abnormalities in the brain, which is viewed as an assessment tool is the

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brain scan (PET scan)

50
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Neurocognitive disorder that suddenly appears, follows a CVA during which blood flow to specific areas of the brain was cut off, with resultant damage

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VASCULAR NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDER

51
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Drug therapy for neurocognitive disorders that have had limited success target memory and affect which neurotransmitters

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ACh and glutamate

52
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Drug therapies for neurocognitive disorders that have had modest success target what

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off-label, NSAIDs, cognitive, behavioral treatments

53
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Three other treatments for neurocognitive disorders

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home care, day-care, assisted living

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