Set of disorders occurring almost entirely in old age in which many aspects of thought and behavior are so impaired that everyday activities are disrupted

Which gender does dementia affect more often?

What disease is associated with the deterioration of the neurons in the subcortical brain, which controls muscle movements?

The most common form of dementia

What 2 aspects of a person are affected by Alzheimer's disease?

What 2 structural changes are made to the brain by Alzheimer's disease?

Bundles of twisted threads formed from collapsed neural structures, containing the protein tau

Dense deposits of deteriorated protein called amyloid surrounded by clumps of dead nerve and glial cells outside neurons

Damaged protein that can accumulate to toxic levels within the brain

What are the 2 types of Alzheimer's disease?

True/False: People with Down Syndrome almost always have symptoms of Alzheimer's after age 40

True/False: Individuals with diabetes have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

How does Insulin Therapy help treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?

What 4 lifestyle changes can help protect against Alzheimer's disease?

Degeneration of mental ability produced by a series of strokes that leave areas of dead brain cells

True/False: Heredity has a direct effect on Cerebrovascular Dementia by increasing the risk of stroke

What is the most likely cause of Cerebrovascular Dementia?

What mental illness is most likely misdiagnosed as dementia?

True/False: Adults age 75+ make up only 13% of the American population and account for 40+% of healthcare spending

Are Caucasian Americans or Ethnic Americans more likely to enter nursing homes?

What percentage of long-term care costs is provided by families?

What is an alternative to expensive institutionalized care?

A homelike housing arrangement for seniors, who need more care than provided at home, but less than the care provided in nursing homes

The inability to control defecation and/or urination

Extrinsic or Intrinsic factors of Incontinence?
Infection/weakness of sphincter
Constipation
Drugs (eg. hypnotic, antiparasympathetic)
Brain failure
Impaired mobility and dexterity

Extrinsic or Intrinsic factors of Incontinence?

Destabilization of bladder due to physiological and pathological changes in kidney and bladder function

Brain functions abnormally as a result of diffuse or widespread pathological changes in brain tissue and/or functional changes in its nutrition

What 2 illnesses are included in Intellectual Impairment?

True/False: Clinical syndromes which result from discrete focal lesions of the brain (eg. haemorrhage, tumour) are included as Intellectual Impairment

True/False: Intellectual Impairment implies malfunction of all or nearly all of the brain

Intrinsic or extrinsic causes of brain failure?

Alzheimer's disease
Huntington's disease
Parkinson's disease
Syphilis

Intrinsic or extrinsic causes of brain failure?

Toxicity
Anoxicity
Metabolism
Endocrine
Nutritional
AIDS

What 6 features of brain function are retained in brain failure?