Dementia
A's of Dementia
Palliative
Abuse
Mental Health
100

Can only be diagnosed with a brain biopsy?

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

100

Can you pass me that thingy a ma bob? Difficulty with naming objects, receptive language (understanding what is said may also be lost)

Aphasia

100

This sets in 2-3 hours of after death, what is it?

Rigor Mortis

100

In this phase Verbal, Emotional, physical, or sexual abuse occurs, abuser is angry and unpredicatable. 

Abusive Phase


100

 The light-based treatment typically used for SAD?

Phototherapy

200

Swearing, pushing, scratching, collecting, pacing, calling out are all examples of what?

Responsive Behaviours


200

Ok Mrs J can you start to button up your shirt? Mrs J grab your spoon and start to eat. A client having difficulty with initiative and needing these cues would be considered to have this A?

•Apathy:  Loss of drive or initiative, may rely on cues from others to maintain involvement in discussion or tasks

200

What is the name of the breathing pattern associated with end of life care?

Cheyne Stokes Respirations

200

This element, which the abuser holds over the abused, is what distinguishes abuse from a random act of violence.

Power and Control (Also accepted: the existence of a relationship/dependency.)

200

Paging Nurse Ratchet, paging Nurse Ratchet, it is know time to perform your favorite procedure applying a brief electric current to the brain for quick relief of severe symptoms. 

ECT - Electroconvulsive Therapy 
300

When I get my hands on a delicious whopper there is only one technique that can relinquish my grasp, the same technique can be used to escape a client's grasp, what is it?

The Thumb Release
300

My husband Anthony doesn't recognize me anymore, he only smiles when he sees me when I am carrying taco bell. He also doesn't know his own children. What A is this associated with?

Agnosia- Loss of recognition, others, spouse, objects, self

300

PPS stands for?

Palliative Performance Scale


300

A client tells you her husband bought her flowers and promised counselling after a bad weekend, and says "he's really changed this time". What Phase is this?

Honeymoon Phase

300

No this isn't Jiminy Cricket in your ear, what is the most common type of Hallucination?

Hearing Voices

400

 When Mr. J responds in the morning, "I need to get up and eat because it's time to go to school". The PSW agrees "Yes it is time to get up and go to school, let's get you washed and dressed before breakfast." What is this known as?

A Therapeutic Lie

400

Difficulty carrying out movements, forgetting how to do things, such as eating, walking, dressing, what A is this?

Apraxia 


400
A loss muscle mass and weight greater then %5 of total body mass associated with dying, what is it?

Cachexia.

400

A partner sabotages childcare arrangements, harasses the client at her job, and demands receipts for every purchase. What is this an example of?

Economic Abuse

400

Postpartum psychosis affects roughly this many women?

1 in 1000

500

What does the acronym PIECES stand for?

Physical Concerns
Intellectual difficulties

Emotional

Capabilities 

Environment

Social

500

"There is a man over there, standing in my closet!" A client says to you but when you look all you see is a coat on a hanger, in a darkly lit room. What A would this be?

Altered Perceptions

500

This uneven, discolored patches on the skin of humans as a result of cutaneous ischemia (lowered blood flow to the surfaces of the skin) may occur at the end of life, what is it called?

Mottling.

500

 Ingrown nails, matted hair, sunken eyes, extreme thirst, and a new pressure sore together suggest this. What would this suggest?

Neglect

500

The three subtypes covered: marked psychomotor problems, disordered thinking, and delusions of persecution

What are catatonic, disorganized, and paranoid?

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