Geriatric And Neurocognitive

Question 1

T/F: 80% of older adults have one chronic condition. Increased risk for depression

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T/F: majority of adults aren’t depressed with 1% to 5% but rise to 13% in home healthcare and 11.5% in hospital

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T or F: depression in old persons is accompanied by physical symptoms or cognitive changes that mimic dementia

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What are the common mental disorders for elderly

Answer 4

Depressive disorder
Cognitive disorder
Phobias
Alcohol use disorders

Question 5

T/F: elderly have a higher risk of suicide with white men over 65 have five times higher

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Sustained attention, divided attention, selective attention, processing speed

Answer 6

Complex attention

Question 7

Planning, decision-making, working memory, responding to feedback/ error correction, overriding habits, inhibition, mental flexibility

Answer 7

Executive functioning

Question 8

What are the cognitive domains

Answer 8

Complex attention
Executive function
Learning and memory
Language
Perceptual motor
Social cognition

Question 9

Disturbance in attention with reduced awareness of the environment. It develops over a short period of time and fluctuates. Disturbance in cognition
Not explained by another NCD
Result of a direct physiological consequence of another medical condition

Answer 9

Delirium

Question 10

Evidence if significant cognitive decline in one or more domains. Cognitive deficits interfere with independence in every day activities. Does not occur with delirium. Not due to MDD or schizophrenia
Ex: Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 10

Major NCD

Question 11

Difficulties with instrumental ADLs such as housework and managing money

Answer 11

Mild NCD

Question 12

Difficulties with basic ADLs such as feeding and dressing

Answer 12

Moderate NCD

Question 13

Fully dependent unable to care for oneself

Answer 13

Severe NCD

Question 14

Evidence of modest cognitive decline in one or more domains. Does not interfere with everyday activities. Dies not occur with delirium.

Answer 14

Mild NCD

Question 15

Insidious onset and gradual progression of impairment in one or more cognitive domains with evidence of AD, clear decline in memory and learning, gradual decline in cognition, no evidence of mixed etiology

Answer 15

Major or mild alzheimer’s disease

Question 16

Behavioral variant with three or more of behavioral disinhibition, apathy, or inertia, loss of sympathy, or empathy, perseverative, stereotyped, or compulsive, ritualistic behavior, hyperorality and dietary changes— decline in social cognition and executive abilities
Language variant: decline in language ability

Answer 16

Major or mild frontotemporal NCD

Question 17

Fluctuating cognition with variations in attention and alertness, recurrent visual hallucinations, spontaneous features of parkinsonism
REM sled behavior disorder
Severe neuroleptic severity

Answer 17

Major or mild NCD with lewy bodies

Question 18

Onset if cognitive deficits temporally related to one of more cerebrovascular events
Decline in complex attention and frontal executive function

Answer 18

Major or mild vascular NCD

Question 19

Impact to the head with one or more of the following:
Loss of consciousness
Post-traumatic amnesia
Disorientation and confusion
Neuro signs: aphasia, apraxia, weakness
Presents immediately after the occurrence or immediately after recovery of consciousness

Answer 19

Major or mild NCD due to TBI