Dementia (20.4)

Question 1

What is the scoring scale of the MMSE?

Normal
Mild
Moderate
Severe

Answer 1

Normal: 30-27
Mild: 30-20
Moderate: 20-10
Severe: 10 or lower

Question 2

What is tested in the MMSE?

Answer 2

Orientation, registration, alertness/ calculation, recall, language

Question 3

What is the scoring scale of MoCA?

Normal
Mild
Moderate
Severe

Answer 3

Normal: over 26
Mild: 18-26
Moderate: 10-17
Severe: under 10

Question 4

What are the ADLs?

Answer 4

Dressing, Eating, Ambulating toileting, hygiene

Question 5

What are the IADLs?

Answer 5

Shopping, Housekeeping, Accounting, Food Preparation transportation

Question 6

What are the characteristics of adult homes?

Answer 6

1- Provides a room and meals

2- Can add on assistance with daily acitivities

3- Not for complex medical problems

Question 7

What are the characteristics of assisted living facilities?

Answer 7

1- Assistance with instrumental activities of daily living

2- can add on some basic activities of daily living for extra fees

3- No medicl or nursing care onsite

Question 8

What are the characteristics of skilled nursing facilities?

Answer 8

1- Daily skilled nursing care, onsite medical care

2- Dependent in all basic activities of daily living

3- Most patients have advanced dementia