NURS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Vascular Dementia, Dyskinesia
19 Sep 2019
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Dementia: a gradual and progressive decline in mental processing ability that affects short-term memory, communication, language, judgement, reasoning and abstract thinking alzheimer"s disease (most common) > symptoms vary depending on area of the brain affected. > onset occurs within people"s 50"s to 60"s. > language changes vitamin b12 deficiency, cjd, aids, neurosyphilis a mixture of dementias. Global rating scale: no cognitive decline, very mild cognitive decline, mild cognitive decline, moderate cognitive decline, moderately severe cognitive decline, severe cognitive decline, very severe cognitive decline. Usually completed by an ot or cognitive psychologist. Depression: biologically based illness that affects a person"s thoughts, feelings, behavior and even physical health. Onset often more insidious, can be chronic. Early morning waking, worse in the morning. Delirium: characterized by an acute and fluctuating onset of confusion, disturbances in attention, disorganized thinking and/or decline in levels of consciousness, and should be treated as a medical emergency.
