Depression is classified as this type of disorder.
What is a mood disorder?
100
Dementia is a broad term for a syndrome characterized by this.
What is a general decline in higher brain functioning?
100
Heart failure was previously referred to as this.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
100
Cataracts is characterized by this.
What is a lens opacity or cloudiness?
100
These are the two major types of strokes.
What is Ischemic and Hemorrhagic?
200
According to the DSM IV, diagnosis of depression requires an individual to have this many symptoms for more than this number of weeks.
What is 5 symptoms for more than two weeks
200
These individuals are more likely to develop dementia.
Who are women?
200
This type of heart failure results in decreased blood volume being ejected from the ventricle.
What is systolic heart failure?
200
These are the three most common types of age related cataracts.
What is nuclear, cortical, and posterior subscapular?
200
This is the initial diagnostic test when a stroke is suspected.
What is a CT scan?
300
Diagnosis of depression requires an individual to have at least one of these symptoms.
What is depressed mood or loss of interest/pleasure?
300
These two risk factors put you at greater risk for developing dementia.
What is hypertension and stroke?
300
The following are nursing interventions that can be applied to patients with heart failure.
What is promoting activity tolerance, managing fluid volume, controlling anxiety, minimizing powerlessness, and promoting home and community based care.
300
Cataracts ranks only behind these two diseases as the leading cause of disability in older adults.
What is arthritis and heart disease?
300
This type of stroke is associated with cardiac dysrhythmias, usually atrial fibrillation.
What is Cardiogenic embolic stroke?
400
This is a major factor contributing to the fact that depression is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. It is the tendency of clinicians to consider symptoms of depression "expectable" given the patients age, social circumstances, and medical condition.
What is "normative fallacy"?
400
These are the three most common non-reversible dementias.
What are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and mixed Alzheimer's and vascular dementia?
400
Rates of heart failure are greater in rural settings, partly due to this reason.
What is heart failure is more prevalent in older adults and the proportion of older adults in higher in rural areas.
400
This type of cataract is associated with prolonged corticosteroid use, inflammation, or trauma.
What is posterior subscapular?
400
Those who have experience a stroke and have atrial fibrillation are treated with this.
What is dose adjusted Coumadin?
500
Depression and dementia are often difficult to distinguish. These four key features help to make the differential diagnosis between dementia and depression.
What is more acute onset, better premorbid level of function, poor motivation, and family history of depression?
500
These two neuropathological and biochemical changes occur in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
What are neurofibrillary tangles and senile or neuritic plaques?
500
This mechanism is one way in which the heart attempts to compensate for increased workload.
What is hypertrophy (increasing thickness of the heart muscle)?
500
This nonsurgical treatment is used to prevent age related cataracts.
What is there is no nonsurgical treatment that cures cataracts or prevents age related cataracts?
500
This is the reason that delays make a patient ineligible to receive thrombolytic therapy.
What is revascularization of necrotic tissue increases risk for cerebral edema and hemorrhage.