Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Alzheimer's disease
- Normal physiologic function
- Limbic System
- Hippocampus and temporal lobes
- Frontal lobe
- Occipital lobe
- Parietal Lobes
- Variation and context
- Risk Factors
- <65 years old
- 2/3 women
- Causes are unknown but associated
- Plaques
- Tangles
- COGNITION
- Brain disorder
- Impaired cognition
- Dementia
- Parkinson's diease
- HIV
- Lewy Body
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Fronto-Temporal
- Vascular
- Substance abuse
- Prion disease
- memory
- thinking ability
- reasoning
- problem solving
- Assessment
- Language
- Orientation
- ADL's
- Judgement
- Abstract thinking
- Forgetfulness
- Mood and behavior
- Personality
- Initiative
- Diagnositic
- Imaging
- MRI
- PET scan
- Neuropsychometric testing by Neuropsychologist
- Clinical
Management
- Primary Prevention
- Secondary Prevention
- Collaborative Management
- Medicine
- Phamacotherapy
- Aricept
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Speech and language
- Audiology
- Home health
- Counseling
- Complications
- Problems and impairment
- Stages
- Early
- Middle
- Late
- End of life
- Interrelated Concepts
- Functional ability
- Intracranial regulation
- Caregiving
- Palliative care