Cognitive Pt 2

Question 1

Mild Dementia QoL Test

Answer 1

Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life

Question 2

Mild to moderate dementia

Answer 2

1. Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in Dementia
2. Dementia Quality of Life Instrument
3. Quality of Life Alzheimer’s Disease Scale

Question 3

Advanced Dementia

Answer 3

1. Dementia Care Mapping
2. Qualidem and Discomfort Scale

Question 4

3 dimensions in caregiver burden scales

Answer 4

1. direct impact on caregivers’ lives
2. Guilt
3. Frustration / embarrassment

Question 5

Zarit Burden Scale - items and what it includes in test

Answer 5

22 question scale that measures caregiver burden
= patient behavioral and functional impairments
= caregivers health, relationships, and finances

Question 6

Short Blessed cutoff score

Answer 6

0-4 normal
5-9 questionable impairment (evaluate for early dementing disorder)
10 + dementia

Question 7

Blessed Orientation Memory-Concentration Test- how many items, what it tests

Answer 7

Short Blessed Test
6 item test
- orientation
- registration
- attention

Question 8

Mini-Cognitive Assessment Instrument (Mini-Cog) how many items, what it involves

Answer 8

3-step assessment: 3-word registration, clock drawing, and 3-word recall

Question 9

Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE)
how many items, what it involves, length of test

Answer 9

11-question measure
5 areas of function: orientation, registration, attention and calculation, recall, and language
5-10 minutes

Question 10

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
how many items, what it involves

Answer 10

30-question test
Evaluates orientation, short-term memory, executive function/visuospatial ability, language abilities, animal naming, abstraction, attention, and clock-drawing

Question 11

Pentagon Copying Test

Answer 11

Part of MMSE or stand-alone test

Question 12

These 2 cognitive screening tools have an admin time of 5 mins or less

Answer 12

1. Pentagon Copying Test
2. Clock Drawing

Question 13

Word Recall in these 2 cognitive screening tests

Answer 13

1. MOCA
2. Mini Cog

Question 14

Complex Attention 2 tests and what they are specifically for

Answer 14

1. Trail making A and B ( shift attention)
2. Trail Making A ( processing speed and mental efficiency)

Question 15

Executive function Fxn tests ( 3)

Answer 15

1. forward and backward digit span
2. trail making test
3. stroop test

Question 16

2 screening tools for language

Answer 16

1. Boston Naming Test
2. Phonemic fluency ( <14 impairment)