Dementia Flashcards
Mild cognitive impairment symptoms
Memory Reasoning Attention Language Visual depth perception Not yet interfering with daily life but reduced cognition compared to expected
Slowing MCI and Dementia
Keeping mentally and physically active
Reduce drinking, smoking
Treat diabetes, heart conditions
Healthy diet
Treating dementia and mci
implementing the reducing factors
support groups to tackle social isolation and depression
cognitive training
drugs to deal with aggression, hallucination etc
MDT for dementia patient
Psychiatric geriatrician Social worker Community / specialist nurse Occupational therapist Dietitian Speech therapist
Mental Capacity act DODBL
Don't assume Offer help Don't judge unwise decisions Best interest Least restrictive
Assessing mental capacity
Do they have an impairment of mind or brain - condition or drugs.
Understand, Retain, Weigh up, Communicate
Alzheimer’s disease
slow, progressive, attention lack, mood changes
Amnesia, Anomia, Apraxia, Agnosia, Aphasia
Hyperphosphorylation of tau proteins
Buildup of amyloid plaques
Vascular Dementia
stepwise, personality change, history of vascular disease, multiple mini infarcts or sudden stroke
Lewy body
alpha-synuclein deposits buildup in brain. Hallucinations, delusions, autonomic dysfunction, sleep problems, parkinsonian movement, tremor - lack of fluidity.
Frontotemporal dementia
tau buildup in frontal and temporal regions. (personality, emotions, behaviour and speech, language).
Inappropriate behaviour, younger onset, personality changes, like sweet foods, progressive non fluent aphasia,
Posterior cingulate cortex
Orientation - what time, year, date
Hippocampus
Short term memory - repeat address
Anterior thalamus
Attention - counting backwards
