Geriatrics - Psychogeriatric Flashcards
Dementia
Spectrum of dementia
Dementia: syndrome that may be caused by a number of different brain disorders involving mental decline severe enough to disrupt daily life that affects more than one core brain functions: Recent memory, Language, Visuospatial function, Executive function.
Major Neurocognitive Disorder: Significant cognitive decline + interfere with B-ADL and I-ADL
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder: Modest cognitive decline + does not interfere B-ADL nor I-ADL. 10-15% of Mild NCD progress into Major NCD every year
Mild Cognitive Impairment: minor problems with cognition, NOT severe enough to interfere significantly with daily life (B-ADL, I-ADL), and so are not defined as dementia. 6-25% Annual rate of progression to Dementia (compared to normal individual 1-2%)
Dementia
Prevalence with age
Distribution of most common causes
Mnemonic for dementia
Primary neurological diseases/ dementia syndromes
Secondary causes of dementia
Congenital causes of dementia
Risk factors of dementia
Protective factors against dementia
Domains of cognitive impairment
Complex attention
Signs of impairment
Executive ability
Signs of impairment
Learning and memory
Signs of impairment
Language
Signs of impairment
Perceptual motor
Signs of impairment
Social cognition
Signs of impairment
Behavioural psychological symptoms of Dementia
Diagnostic criteria of dementia
+ Caregiver stress, Institutionalisation
Clinical assessment of dementia
ADL: B-ADL and I-ADL
Behavioural psychological symptoms of Dementia
- Anxiety, Apathy, Aggression, Agitation, Irritability, Verbal outbursts
- Delusion, Hallucination
- Motor behavior abnormality, night time behavioural disturbance
Cognition: 6 domains
- AMT, MMSE, MoCA, Clock drawing test
Dementia
Ix
Alzheimer’s disease
Brain region affected
Frontotemporal dementia
Brain region affected
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Brain region affected