Starts With A "D"
This is reversable.
What is delirium?
Due to impaired balance and coordination, dementia patients high risk of what?
What are falls?
Doing the same thing at the same time each day.
What is routine?
Teaching family about these informal meetings with other families coping with dementia.
What are support groups?
Heritage Community resources.
What are Assisted Living, Memory Care, Home Care, and Skilled Nursing, Memory Care Learning Center? (Community of Kalamazoo, 2024)
This is irreversable.
What is dementia?
Removing clutter, area rugs, and electric cords.
What is providing a safe environment?
Doing this gives patients time to process information.
What is speaking slowly and using silence and intervals in between conversations?
These are appropriate referrals for the nurse to make for patients and families.
Who are social workers, OT, PT, counselors, dietitians, and specialty providers?
This is the goal for dementia patients' support systems for 2030?
What are involving families in the care, educating, providing low prices for care, improving access to care, and increasing the number of nurses?
This can present as pseudodementia.
What is depression?
These are things a dementia patient may forget.
What are correct doses of meds, to take meds, to eat, to stay hydrated?
These are interventions to provide quality dementia care?
What are cognitive training, medication administration, and environmental modifications?
The role of nursing support for the patient in the hospital.
What is educating about pain management, providing emotional support, coping strategies with depression, and recognizing/responding to signs of cognitively impaired patients?
The Mini-Cog and Montreal Cognitive Assessment are examples of these, which help identify cognitive decline.
What are cognitive assessment tools?