Chapter 10 Geriatric Nursing

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Catastrophic reactions

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Excessively emotional responses

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Aphasia

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Abnormal neurologic condition in which language function is disordered or absent because of an injury to certain areas cerebral cortex maybe result of a stroke

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Cognition

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Includes intelligence memory language and decision-making

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Confusion

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A mental state characterized by disorientation regarding time place or person that leads to bewilderment perplexity lack of orderly thought and the ability to choose their active decisively and to perform activities of daily living

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Delirium

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And mental disorder characterized by disturbances and cognition attention memory and perception symptoms include confusion disorientation restlessness clouding of consciousness incoherence fear anxiety and excitement it is also often characterized by a lesion hallucinations usually a visual origin at times delusions

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Dementia

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A general term for permanent progressive organic mental disorder characterized by personality changes confusion disorientation

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Dysarthria

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Difficult poorly Articulated speech resulting from interference in the control and execution over the muscles of speech usually caused by neurological damage

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Dysphagia

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Abnormal neurological condition in which speech function is disordered or absent because of an injury to certain areas of the cerebral cortex maybe a result of a stroke

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Hemianopsia

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In which a portion of visual field is lost

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Intelligence

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The potential ability and capacity to acquire retain and apply experience understanding knowledge reasoning and judgment in coping with new experiences in problem solving

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Memory

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The mental faculty or power that enables one to retain and to recall through unconscious associated processes previously experienced sensations impressions ideas concepts and all information that has been consciously learned

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Otosclerosis

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A hereditary condition of the bony labyrinth of that ear in which there is a formation of spongy bone resulting in hearing loss

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Perception

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The conscious recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli that serve as a basis for understanding learning and knowing or for motivating a particular action or reaction

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Presbycusis

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Hearing loss associated with aging particularly higher pitch sounds

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Presbyopia

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Found in Elderly people farsightedness resulting from a loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye and resulting in a decrease in the power of accommodation

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Stimuli

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Things that excite or incite in organism as part to function become active or respond

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Sundowning

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A condition in which people with cognitive impairment and older people tend to become confused and disoriented at the end of the day exhibiting such behaviors as wondering combativeness suspiciousness hallucinations and delusions. example Alzheimer’s disease