Quotes
This 80 year old American statesman said, “Our constitution is an actual operation, everything appears to promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes”
Who is Benjamin Franklin
This American crochet artist gave up making quilts when afflicted by arthritis in her 70s and took up painting instead
Who is Grandma Moses
This American stateman invented bifocal lenses at the age of 78
Who is Benjamin Franklin
Vitamin deficiency found in a patient with a low calcium and increased alkaline phosphatase
What is Vitamin D
This is the most common cause of accidents in older individuals
What is falls
This English poet wrote, “Grow old along with me - the best is yet to be - The last of life for which the first was made.”
Who is Robert Browning
He created the Pieta and painted the Sistine Chapel, worked on St. Peter’s Basilica in his 80’s.
Who is Michelangelo
This 82 year old former American President said “When angry, count to 10 before you speak, a very angry, a hundred”
Who is Thomas Jefferson
Vitamin deficiency that presents with dementia, megaloblastic anemia, and paresthesias
What is vitamin B12 deficiency
This is the major public source of payment for long term nursing home patients
What is Medicaid
This Welsh writer penned “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, Rage Against the dying light”
Who is Dylan Thomas
A prolific painter into his 90s, his most famous late work is ”Guernica”
Who is Pablo Picasso
This is the oldest verified age that anyone has ever lived
What is 122 (Jeanne Calment
This is the most common cause of blindness in older adults
What is macular degeneration
This is the best treatment for incontinence in a patient with moderate dementia
What is frequent toileting
This American poet wrote “Time has laid his hand on my heart gently, not smiling at but as a harper lays his open palm upon his harp to deaden its vibration”
Who is Longfellow
This Spanish guitarist continud to give concert performances past 90 years old
Who is Andre Segovia
This Roman statesman described old age as “the crown of life” in De Senectute
Who is Cicero
Disease presenting with an increased ESR, fever pain in the side of the head, and blindness
What is temporal arteritis
The Katz six activities of daily living
What are transferring, toileting, bathing, dressing, eating, and continence
This Scottish poet wrote" John Anderson my Jo John. When we were first acquaint your looks were like the raven your bonnie brow was trent. But now your brow is bald, John your looks are like the snow. But blessings on your frosty brow John Anderson my Jo”-
Who is Robert Burns
This famous French artist who, when afflicted by arthritis, made paper cutouts in his old age
Who is Henri Matisse
This Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Coloneus at the age of 89
Who is Sophocles
This substance occurs in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease and is the subject of most Alzheimer’s research
What is amyloid
These are the four components necessary to establish decision making capacity
What are 1) Ability to understand, 2) Appreciate, 3) Reason, and 4) Make a choice