Chapter 10 Flashcards
The percentage of older adult aged 65 and older is _______ percent of the us total population.
13.7%
Older adults tend to experience higher rates of dementia, or irreversible confusion as well as _____, or acute confusion.
chronic
True or False:
More men are widowers than women are widows.
Fasle
What is cognitive impairment as the result of irreversible organic changes in brain cell function?
Dementia
An acute disturbance of consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention. A change in cognition or the development of perceptual disturbance that is not better accounted for by a preexisting, established, or evolving is called?
Delirium
What are the risk factors for delirium?
Which two are the most common?
- *Advanced age
- *Preexisting cognitive impairment
- Medication exposure
- Trauma (i.e., fall, surgery, head injury)
- Severe illness
- Immobility
- Metabolic abnormalities
- Poor nutrition
- Sensory deprivation or overload
- Sleep deprivation
- Dehydration and anemia
- Constipation
- Urinary retention
- Infection
- Alcohol or medication withdrawal
- Uncontrolled pain
- Change in environment
(* Two most common risk factors.)
What is often unrecognized or misdiagnosed in older adults partly due to the false belief that depression is a natural reaction to illness, advanced age, or life changes that occur with age and is therefore not viewed as something to be treated?
mood disorders
