5. What tip should be used when assisting a person with Alzheimer’s disease with eating? Know the person’s food preferences. Rush the person with their meal. Talk to coworkers during meals. Serve meals in an unfamiliar setting.

You are assigned to care for Mr. Cruise, 85, who has Alzheimer's disease. He often wanders from room to room and tries to open the outside doors. He frequently becomes agitated and restless, especially in the evening. Most of the time, Mr. Cruise is unable to feed himself and is often incontinent. He keeps on repeating, “Help me! Help Me!” all day long. Why would it be ineffective to o remind him of the date and time of your shift? Why is he more agitated in the evenings? What part of Mr. Cruise’s behavior would be most difficult to tolerate?

A 76-year-old female client visits the clinic and tells the nurse about not feeling well for the last 2 weeks. The nurse observes that the client’s speech is slow; she has an unkempt appearance and maintains poor eye contact with the nurse. The nurse asks her to clarify what she means by not feeling well. The client states “I feel like I am losing my mind. Since my husband died a year ago, I can’t seem to remember anything. I lose my keys and wallet all the time. The other day, I even forgot how to get home from the supermarket. My neighbor saw me walking around aimlessly and came over to me. I was a block from home. I am getting worried that something may be wrong.” The nurse questions her further regarding her daily activities and learns that she lives alone and hardly goes out. Her son and daughter live out of state, and she doesn’t see them often, although they talk on the phone every week. The client’s medical and surgical history is negative for medical conditions or surgeries.…

Category: General Knowledges Your patient is a 10-month old female. How can you determine if she has a decreased mental status and is responsive to verbal stimuli? She will be unable to tell you how old she is if you ask her She will try and pull away from a painful stimulus in her toe She will attempt to locate her parents' voices when they speak She will be upset when you take her from her mother's arms DOO Submit

8.  When Paula was young, she was very talkative, often getting into trouble for talking during class. She had difficulty focusing on her schoolwork and had lower grades than she was capable of receiving. As an adult, she is very anxious about her work performance. She has difficulty following through on her duties, is disorganized, has trouble paying attention during mundane tasks and during conversations. She sometimes forgets to attend meetings and often makes mistakes when she is completing a task that requires her to focus on details. What diagnosis is most likely?  Autism ADHD, combined type Anxiety disorder, with inattentive features ADHD, inattentive type

4. Which question is best to ask the person in the late stage of Alzheimer’s disease? What dress do you want to wear today? What do you want to wear today? Do you want to wear the yellow dress or the blue dress? How about wearing this beautiful yellow dress today?

how would you prioritise the need for this person? Alzheimer’s dementia affects your memory loss and cognitive difficulties. Having trouble to perform daily tasks, repeating questions, wandering, personality and behaviour changes, etc. Vascular dementia affects the change of your mood, personality or behaviour feeling lost and perplexed difficulties walking and maintaining balance. Affect cognitive deterioration, slowed motor skills and mood swings. Atrial fibrillation can raise a risk of causing you to have a heart attack, stroke and heart failure. Which can cause your life expectancy of your life. Because uneven and frequently fast heart rate that happens when the two upper chambers of your heart receive disordered electrical impulses causing poor blood circulation. Hypercholesterolemia affects the body on how it processes cholesterol. Causing you to have an increased chance of a cardiac condition and a possible early heart attack as well. You inherit this from family it’s a gene…

1) Aiden says the best antidote for presentation anxiety is a b с d e being comfortable; dressing appropriately but comfortably remembering to breathe; breathing slowly and deeply to maintain a sense of calm and confidence being ready with your opening line; memorizing your first sentence so that you won't have to improvise preparation to keep going; continuing on even if you make a mistake

An 80-year-old patient with Alzheimer's disease has recently become more agitated and disoriented. Discuss your approach to assessing and managing these behavioral changes.

8. All of the following are ways DSPs can help reduce risk factors for abuse and neglect EXCEPT what? Help the person you support gain assertiveness skills. Learn to recognize the signs of abuse. Limit the person’s social circle to reduce exposure to perpetrators. Model appropriate social behavior.