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Final Exam: NU176 / NU 176 (
Update 2025 / 2026) Geriatric Nursing Questions with 100 % Correct - Galen
Question:
How is the symptom of dementia usually defined as?
Answer:
Loss of intellectual abilities to the extent that it interferes with normal ADL's
Question:
What is the most common kind of dementia?
Answer:
Alzheimer's disease
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Question:
Dementia is a gradually process over time and is a result of what?
Answer:
Deterioration of the brain
Question:
What type of therapy is used to assist in the communication of patients with dementia.
Answer:
Validation therapy
Question:
What does malorientation consist of
Answer:
- males that deny anything is wrong with them
- orientated to real life events but forget how to do ADLS
- they don't like being and more disorientated people
- cast blame on other people
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Question:
What is the best way to get ones that are in the first stage of dementia ( malorientation) to talk?
Answer:
As open ended questions about facts not feelings
Question:
What happens during the time confusion stage of dementia?
Answer:
- become withdrawn more from the real world and into their own little world
- loose sense of real time and responds to things with their own sense of time
Question:
What happens during the repetitive stage of dementia?
Answer:
- retreat from present reality
- pace and repeat the same speech constantly
- speech is limited to single syllable words
- eye contact is made only when touched or spoken to
- they will say things like "mama, mama, mama," over and over
- communicate through universal symbols like folding or holding a napkin
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