Old People

Question 1

What is dementia?

Answer 1

Loss of cognitive function

Question 2

Types of dementia

Answer 2

Alzheimer’s
Vascular
Dementia with Lewy bodies
Frontotemporal dementia

Question 3

What is Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 3

A cause of dementia
520,000 people in the UK have it
Proteins build up forming plaques or tangles which damage connections between nerve cells and eventually kill those cells and result in loss of brain tissue
Also leads to loss of chemical messengers in the brain

Question 4

What is vascular dementia?

Answer 4

Caused by strokes
Or subcortical dementia where disease affects small blood vessels deep in the brain (most common type of vascular dementia)

Question 5

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Answer 5

10% of all dementia cases
Shares symptoms with Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s
Tiny deposits of protein in nerve cells

Question 6

Frontotemporal dementia

Answer 6

Less common
Sometimes known as Pick’s disease
Frontal & temporal lobes - emotions, language, control behaviour, & understanding words (inter alia)
More common in younger (45-65) than other types

Question 7

Dementia general

Answer 7

Dementia vs delirium

Dementia pain scoring

Question 8

Drugs for Alzheimer’s

Answer 8

Donepezil
Galantamine
Rivastigmine
Memantine

Question 9

Capacity & consent to treat in dementia

Answer 9

Consent to Examine and Treat (Capacity Tool)
LA4, LA5
Mental Capacity Act