Dementia and Alzheimer's Presentation

Question 1

Is there a business or social model for dementia?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

According to WHO, dementia is currently the what leading cause of death among all diseases and one of the major causes of what and dependency among older people globally?

Answer 2

7th and disability

Question 3

1 in how many seniors dies with Alzheimer’s disease?

Answer 3

1 in 3

Question 4

Does dementia kill more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

The four types of people in the world according to Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving are what?

Answer 5

Those who are caregivers, those who will become caregivers, those who have been caregivers, and those who will need caregivers

Question 6

Are caregivers less susceptible to diseases of old age?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

What is morally, physically, and spiritually challenging?

Answer 7

Caregiving

Question 8

When a person is diagnosed with a dementia disease, the two people added to the roster of this epidemic disease are who?

Answer 8

The one with the disease and the caregiver

Question 9

Does dementia disease differ from person to person?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

Do individuals, communities, friends, and more respond differently to the disease diagnosis?

Answer 10

Yes

Question 11

The professor says “In chronicity, we aren’t so good…no one brings a what?”

Answer 11

Casserole

Question 12

Does dementia affect the economy including Medicare, Social Security, businesses, and more?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

How much money in billions did Alzheimer’s and other dementias cost the US in 2021? It is projected to potentially reach 1 trillion in 2050.

123, 423, 321, 324

Answer 13

321 billion

Question 14

Does dementia already cost the American family billions of dollars?

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

Is dementia part of normal aging?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What is the leading risk factor for most chronic illnesses of old age including Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia diseases?

Answer 16

Aging

Question 17

Your brain reconstructs your what on demand, although it might be different as assembly is influenced by your current situation and might be built with different neurons?

Answer 17

Memories

Question 18

What is one area of the brain that can grow new brain cells and is also the first area to degenerate in an Alzheimer’s pateint?

Answer 18

Hippocampus

Question 19

As we age, our brains naturally what, leaving about an inch of spare room in our 70s?

Answer 19

Shrink

Question 20

Is dementia a symptom of a disease?

Answer 20

Yes

Question 21

Dementia is a disabling blank impairment?

Answer 21

Cognitive

Question 22

What is the most common disease to have dementia as a symptom? Others include FTD, Lewy Body Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.

Answer 22

Alzheimer’s Disease

Question 23

While 80% of adults have at least one chronic health condition, how many have two or more?

Answer 23

68%

Question 24

Match the percentages with the chronic health condition: 58%, 47%, 31%, 29%, 27%, 18%, 14%, 14%, and 11%

High cholesterol, high blood pressure (hypertension), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression, coronary heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CDK), heart failure, and arthritis

Answer 24

High Blood Pressure (Hypertension): 58%
High Cholesterol: 47%
Arthritis: 31%
Coronary Heart Disease: 29%
Diabetes: 27%
Chronic Kidney Disease: 18%
Heart Failure/Depression: 14%
COPD: 11%

Question 25

The changes that take place in the brain during dementia start on a what scale long before the first signs of MCI and/or other symptoms show up?

Answer 25

Microscopic`

Question 26

What are the four executive functions (M2T2)?

Answer 26

Money, transportation, medication, and technology (if already aware)

Question 27

What is considered the problem with Alzheimer's in the presentation, while the onset of other issues just exacerbates the disease?

Answer 27

Losing our self-autonomy

Question 28

Instrumental activities of daily living include executive functions such as managing what three things, as well as transportation?

Answer 28

Living space, finances, and medications

Question 29

Activities of daily living are often used in disability and insurance what, which include walking, self-feeding, dressing, toileting, and personal hygeine?

Answer 29

Evaluations

Question 30

Falls, fragility, incontinence, sleep disorders, weight loss/gain and malnutrition, epilepsy/seizures/myoclonic movements, delusions/delirium/hallucinations, oral disease, visual dysfunction, and hearing are all what of dementia?

Answer 30

Physical comorbidities

Question 31

Does dementia affect more than just the five senses?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

What is knowing where the body parts are and what they are doing?

Answer 32

Proprioception

Question 33

What is the sense of feeling pain?

Answer 33

Nociception

Question 34

What is the sense of sensing temperature?

Answer 34

Thermoception

Question 35

What is the sense of sensing passage of time?

Answer 35

Chronoception

Question 36

What is the sense of internal needs awareness such as hunger or thirst?

Answer 36

Interoception

Question 37

Does dementia affect visuospatial abilities?

Answer 37

Yes

Question 38

Difficulty driving, reading, recognizing faces, locating objects, depth perception, and increased risk of wandering are all effects of dementia on what abilities?

Answer 38

Visuospatial abilities

Question 39

Do many people with dementia go undiagnosed?

Answer 39

Yes

Question 40

Recognition of dementia is often delayed and/or acknowledged until a what crisis has occured?

Answer 40

Behavior crisis

Question 41

It can take years to get an accurate what, especially in FTD as other diseases/conditions must be eliminated through testing?

Answer 41

Accurate diagnosis

Question 42

Early assessment and what is needed to slow functional decline and delay or prevent memory care placement and help with future planning (medical, financial, legal, and support)?

Answer 42

Intervention

Question 43

Brexipiprazole (Rexulti) is an example of what sort of drug? Anti-psychotics, glutamate modulators, cholinesterase inhibitors, or combination of cholinesterase inhibitors and glutamate modulators

Answer 43

Anti-psychotics

Question 44

Aricept, Exelon, and Razadyne is an example of what sort of drug?

Answer 44

Cholinesterase inhibitors

Question 45

Namzaric is an example of what sort of drug?

Answer 45

Combination of cholinesterase inhibitors and glutamate modulators

Question 46

Namenda is an example of what sort of drug?

Answer 46

Glutamate modulators

Question 47

Are there more anti-amyloid treatments in research and clinical trials?

Answer 47

Yes

Question 48

Donanemab (Kisulna), Lecanemab (Leqembi), and Aducanumab (Aduhelm) are examples of what? Which is discontinued?

Answer 48

Anti-amyloid treatments with aducanumab (Aduhelm) discontinued

Question 49

What percentage of lifestyle-associated dementia risk can be attributed to 14 potentially modifiable risk factors, many of which develop earlier of life? 48, 45, 42, 50

Answer 49

45%

Question 50

Next Generation (NextGen) Brain Health is a what research study exploring brain health in young adults aged 18-39 years?

Answer 50

International

Question 51

The goal of NextGen is to identify risk and what factors for brain health that are most important in young adulthood, so that we can intervene and prevent future dementia?

Answer 51

Risk and resilience factors

Question 52

We can advocate for improved dementia education and training in what health-related fields, as well as emergency and law fields?

Answer 52

All

Question 53

For awareness and improved quality of what of dementia care in primary medicine, speciality medicines, social work, dentistry, ophthalmology, audiology, and health care facilities?

Answer 53

Care

Question 54

To reduce hospital and emergency room what, to delay and sometimes avoid nursing home admissions?

Answer 54

Admissions

Question 55

To educate who and change policy about dementia diseases?

Answer 55

Policy makers

Question 56

To reduce the overwhelming what burden on the healthcare system, social systems, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, families, businesses, individuals, and the economy?

Answer 56

Financial

Question 57

For more effective what, additional research, and expanded clinical trials?

Answer 57

Medications

Question 58

For more and affordable day care facilities and more memory care facilities that are purpose built with trained staff, especially in rural and economically what areas?

Answer 58

Disadvantaged

Question 59

For better training, improved what ratios, and increased pay for those who interact and care for a vulnerable population?

Answer 59

Staffing

Question 60

For who, tax credits and/or reimbursement for in-home caregiving, respite funds, more respite options, more support, and improved federal and state family leave policy?

Answer 60

Caregivers

Question 61

Expanding reimbursing medical care into what?

Answer 61

Homes

Question 62

Raise awareness of the what of palliative care and hospice care?

Answer 62

Benefits

Question 63

Do the long-term effects of the pandemic continue?

Answer 63

Yes

Question 64

In 2020, COVID-19 contributed to a what percentage increase in Alzheimer's and dementia deaths? 16, 17, 18, 19

Answer 64

17%

Question 65

Some of the most drastic changes from the pandemic were to dementia patients and to their caregivers, in the home or in care facilities. In 2024, care facilities continue to experience what shortages?

Answer 65

Staffing

Question 66

Long term COVID-19 symptoms have been profound to include cognitive decline, overwhelming neurology what?

Answer 66

Providers

Question 67

Due to COVID-19, everyone now has experience in "being stuck at home" with no help, lack of resources, and social what?

Answer 67

Isolation