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1
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Levodopa effect that includes rapid changes in motoric ability induced by fluctuations in the concentration of L-Dopa in the blood plasma

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Off/on effects

2
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Combination of overall decrease of volitional movement and difficulty initiating motor movement alongside cognitive deficits

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Dementia with Lewy bodies

3
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What is the neuropathology of dementia with Lewy bodies?

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Deterioration of cortex and subcortex due to Lewy bodies

4
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Over production of matter that is found in the basal ganglia that contributes to Parkinson’s disease

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Lewy bodies

5
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What is the difference between a person who has dementia and a person who has aphasia?

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Aphasia is a single episodic insult to the brain resulting in a loss of language; dementia is a progressive cognitive change (language, memory, motor, etc)

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What are some complex interacting factors of dementia treatment?

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Age of patient, prior language/literacy skills, nature of neuropathology, severity of impairments, timing of therapy, length of therapy, intensity, family involvement

7
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What is the purpose of dementia treatment?

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Improve quality of life and ensure patients operate at the highest level possible despite deficits, strengthen abilities that can improve, reduce demands on impaired disabilities, maintain intact cognition, provide stimuli that evoke positive emotion and memories

8
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What are 2 common medications to help with dementia?

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Donepezil (Aricept), Memantine (Namenda)

9
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Maximizes cognitive abilities that remain

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Medical management

10
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What are 2 types of approaches that we use to treat dementia?

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Restorative, compensatory

11
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Maintaining a skill that they have in a simplistic level

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Restorative

12
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Putting a skill in place of what they cannot do

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Compensatory

13
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What is an example of a compensatory approach for treating dementia?

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Setting an alarm, visual pictures for routines

14
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Auditory comprehension of single words, short sentences, longer and more complex sentences, and paragraph length information

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Receptive language skills

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What are some examples of treating receptive language skills?

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Answering simple to complex questions, follow simple to complex spoken directions, answering questions about spoken discourse