Treatment
Physical, occupational, speech & language therapy to gain back abilities before disorder.
What is Rehabilitation Services?
Significant decline in performance in one or more cognitive areas. Interferes with independence.
What is Major Neurocognitive Disorder?
Head wound or trauma to the brain.
What is TBI?
Main Symptom of Delirium
What is State of Confusion?
Specific Brain Pathology
What is Biological Dimension?
Vitamins, medications, gene therapy, antidepressants, to reduce symptoms of neurocognitive disorders.
What is Biological Treatment?
Moderate decline in performance in one or more cognitive areas, compensatory strategies may be needed to gain back abilities.
What is Mild Neurocognitive Disorder?
Symptoms include; Tremors, muscle rigidity, slow movement, and possible cognitive decline.
Main Symptoms of Mild Neurocognitive Disorder
What is Needing extra time and effort for complex tasks?
Lifestyle and support from others
What is Social Dimension?
This treatment increases sleep, by using light therapy, along with decreasing agitation and depression with people diagnosed with dementia.
What is Enviornmental Support?
Decline in mental functioning and self help skills that results from a major neurocognitive disorders.
What is Dementia?
Declining cognitive functioning including early, prominent memory impairment.
What is Alzheimers?
Main symptom of Major Cognitive Disorders
What is Inability to Meet Demands of Daily Living?
Optimism vs Pessimism
What is Psychological Dimension?
This treatment plan can help reduce the frequency or severity of problem behaviors that come with a neurocognitive disorder.
What is Cognitive/Behavioral Therapy?
These two disorders can be earlier and later in the stages of the same physiological conditions.
What is Mild and Major Cognitive Disorders?
Involuntary movement, cognitive decline, and emotional instability.
What is Huntington's Disease?
Main symptom of Dementia
What is Forgetting Names of Significant people or Past Events?
Ageism/attitudes towards aging.
What is Sociocultural Dimension?
This treatment mainly helps vascular neurocognitive disorder, by focusing on weight loss, smoking less, and blood sugar levels.
Disturbance in a person's mental abilities that results from physiological factors such as; alcohol or drug intoxication or exposure to toxins.
What is Delirium?
Brain degeneration in frontal or temporal lobes that affect language and/or behavior.
What is Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration?
Skills affected are recognition of emotions, understanding of social situations, and behavioral self control.
What is Social Cognition?
This behavior from others can add to someone's stress and negatively impact their functioning
What is Insensitivity and Impatience towards people with Neurocognitive Disorders?