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(Confusion) What are impairments of mental functions? - Answer-Poor Judgment, Impaired memory, disorientation (to time, place, situation, or person), difficulty making decisions, disorderly thought process When someone has dementia, is there long term or short term memory more affected? - Answer...

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Dementias and Related Disorders QUIZ
22 UNITEK LVN Term 1 Exam Question s
with Correct Answers
(Confusion) What are impairments of mental functions? - Answer-Poor Judgment,
Impaired memory, disorientation (to time, place, situation, or person), difficulty making
decisions, disorderly thought process

When someone has dementia, is there long term or short term memory more affected? -
Answer-They lose short term memory, and still are able to remember long term
memories

What is Confabulation? - Answer-when someone is fabricating stories, or making up
stories.

What is hallucination? - Answer-False, fixed sensory experience.
(visual, auditory)

What is Alzheimer's disease? - Answer-Alzheimer's disease is a form or cause of
dementia that is a progressive disorder in which the brain atrophy's (shrinks)

(Delirium) is... - Answer-Acute brain system usually temporary with delusion

(delusion is a false belief)

(Delirium) The nurses responds to a delirious client saying they is a snake under their
bed. - Answer-"I know you're frightened, and I don't see snakes under the bed, but I will
stay here with you".

Delirium vs Dementia - Answer-1. Delirium- Acute, dramatic onset, common causes=
illness, toxin, withdrawal, usually reversible. Poor attention and fluctuating arousal level,
temporary

2. Dementia: Chronic, insidious onset, usually not reversible, attention usually
unaffected and normal arousal level, relentless, constant, continuous

Anxiety vs Fear - Answer-anxiety has an unknown or unrecognized source, wheras fear
is a reaction to a specific threat.

fear- specific fear and afraid of something they can identify

What happens in the early stages of dementia? - Answer-changes are insidious,
gradual, and cumulative

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