Dementia
Amnesia, Aphasia, Agnosia, and Apraxia.
What are the “4 As” of Dementia?
People with dementia may stray away from home.
What is wandering?
This is not an effective technique with dementia.
What is Reality Orientation?
Worsening of a person’s behavioral symptoms in the late afternoon and evening, as the sun goes down.
What is Sundowning?
A disorder that affects a person’s mind, causing the person to act in unusual ways and/or experience emotional difficulties.
What is Mental Illness?
The permanent and progressive loss of the ability to think and remember.
What is Dementia?
A person with dementia may walk back and forth.
What is pacing?
Stresses the importance of acknowledging the person’s reality.
What is Validation Therapy?
A temporary state of confusion.
What is Delirium?
What you do when you start to feel overwhelmed or “stressed out”.
What are Coping Mechanisms?
Most common type of dementia, accounting for more than 60% of cases of dementia.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
Doing the same thing over and over.
What is Repetition (Perseveration)?
The person with dementia is encouraged to remember and share experiences from his past.
What is Reminiscence Therapy?
The permanent and progressive loss of the ability to think and remember.
What is Dementia?
When a person is under stress, the mind may try to return the person to a state of emotional balance by using these mechanisms.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
A temporary state of confusion.
What is Delirium?
Becoming very upset and excited.
What is Agitation?
Vocal or instrumental sounds have been found to calm an agitated person.
What is Music Therapy?
Difficulty coordinating steps needed to complete task.
What is Apraxia?
To make up for a loss by “filling in” or “substituting” something else.
What is Compensation?
Difficulty speaking.
What is Aphasia?
A false belief; for example, a person with dementia may think that she is someone she is not, such as the Queen of England.
What are Delusions?
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What is Pet Therapy?
Difficulty recognizing information obtained through the five senses.
What is Agnosia?
Refusing to believe something that is true, especially if the truth is unpleasant.
What is Denial?