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Cognitively-Impaired Patients Quiz
Tennis shoes with Velcro straps - ✔✔Which type of shoe is most appropriate for Mrs.
Gantz, a patient with dementia?
Depression - ✔✔Which of the following are the most common mental health problem
in older people?
Delirium - ✔✔Which of the following are a state of temporary mental confusion?
The environment, time, and themselves - ✔✔Reality orientation is used to help
confused patients remain oriented to ____.
The cause is unknown - ✔✔What is the cause of Alzheimer's disease?
Mania - ✔✔What is another name for the emotional high experienced in bipolar
disorder?
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Because mentally ill patients are often not able to think logically - ✔✔Why should
health care workers never argue or debate with a mentally distressed patient?
Is uninterested in daily activities - ✔✔Which of the following are true of a depressed
individual?
All of the above - ✔✔Which of the following areas are affected by Alzheimer's
disease?
"Why don't I just help you wash your face? We can try a bath tomorrow." - ✔✔Philip is
trying to get his patient with dementia, Mr. Hoffman, to take a bath. Mr. Hoffman
refuses. How should Philip respond?
To keep the patient oriented with reality - ✔✔Why is it important to use clocks and
calendars in the room of a patient with dementia?
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