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Aquired Brain Injury Flashcards

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Stages of Alzheimer’s

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  1. mild -suspicious behaviour
  2. medium -loss of bowel
  3. severe-skin breakdown, seizures
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Lobes of the brain

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Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe

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Conscious

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Awareness of surroundings, what is happening and able to control thoughts and behaviours

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Sub conscious

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Memories, past experiences and thoughts that can be recalled by a person

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Unconscious

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Experiences and feelings that cannot be remembered

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Id

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Your basic needs

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Ego

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Reasoning and decision making

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Ten warning signs of Alzheimer’s

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Recent memory loss, speaking and language, performing tasks,abstract thinking, misplacing things,changes of mood and behaviour

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Alzheimer’s

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A fatal disease that destroys vital cells of the brain

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Tools to communicate with pts with Alzheimer’s

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Touch, humor, music, reading, wrighting, body language, sign language, smiling

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Few tips to deal with Alzheimer’s pts

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Treat them like an adult
Short and simple
Eye contact

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Aggression

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Potential or actual injury to self or others

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Non violent intervention

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Management of verbal or physical aggression in a non harmful way

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Dementia

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Drugs and alcohol 
Eyes and ears defects
Metabolic and andocrine disease
Emotional disorders
Tumours and trauma
Infection
Arterio sclerosis
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Crisis development

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Anxiety
Defensive
Acting out person
Tension reduction

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Staff attitude

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Supportive
Directive
Non violent crisis intervention
Therapeutic rapport

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Crisis intervention

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Anxiety,defencive,acting out person,tension reduction

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Paraverbal communication

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Tone,volume,cadence

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Supportive stance

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Honours personal space
Allows enough room to avoid personal injury
Non threatening non challenging and offers an escape route

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acquired brain injury

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Damage to brain tissue caused by disease, medical condition, accident, or violence.

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Head injury

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Describes a multitude of causes of injury to skull, brain and can be mild

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Traumatic brain injury

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External force causing trauma to the brain

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Reminiscence Therapy (RT)

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involves the discussion of past activities, events and experiences with another person or group of people, usually with the aid of tangible prompts such as photographs, household and other familiar items from the past, music and archive sound recordings

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Symptoms of a stroke

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Numbness or weakness on one side
Confusion or trouble speaking
Vision and perception problems 
Trouble moving 
Severe headache
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Reality orientation

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a program designed to improve cognitive and psychomotor function in persons who are confused or disoriented.

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Defence mechanisms

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are unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses.

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Life review

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Flash before their eyes

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Dementia stage 1

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The person becomes aware that she is not thinking and remembering as she did in the past

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Dementia 2

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At this stage memory lapses and confusion become more obvious and the person can no longer hide her memory gaps from family and friends

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Stage 3 of dementia

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At this stage, your family member is highly impaired by her dementia. It is obvious to anyone speaking to her for more than a few minutes that something is wrong with her ability to think

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Acquired brain injury

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(ABI) is brain damage caused by events after birth, rather than as part of a genetic or congenital disorder such as fetal alcohol syndrome, perinatal illness or perinatal hypoxia.

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S+s of abi

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Anhedonia                     
Apraxia
Aphasia
Amnesia 
Adynamia
Disinhibition
Emotional flooding
Perseveration
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Mild Alzheimer’s

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1.mild -suspicious behaviour

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Stage 2 of Alzheimer’s

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2.medium -loss of bowel

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Stage 3 of Alzheimer’s

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3.severe-skin breakdown, seizures

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