Chapter 8 Quiz

The ability of a patient to demonstrate understanding and behaviors that can impact cognition have been known to be affected by hearing and vision.

True

Helpful hints to address a decline in the attention span of an aging adult are:

Limiting distractions especially during multifaceted tasks

All of the following are risk factors for cognitive decline except:

Myopia

A person that has deficits in ________ will have difficulty organizing multistep tasks including managing multiple medications or financial transactions as well as difficulty responding to social cues.

Executive functioning

Although not an inevitable diagnosis related to aging, ______________ is a disease characterized by a significant decline in learning and memory as well as a continuous decline in cognition.

Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder

What type of memory enables a person to remember to perform a task in the future?

Prospective memory

Attention does not seem to be affected specifically by age.

True

Which memory refers to being able to actively use or manipulate information from the brain's short-term storage base during a task?

Working

Alzheimer's Disease is the least common diagnosis under the umbrella of major neurocognitive disorders.

False

Delirium in the older population commonly occurs after:

Hospitalization, after major surgery, and heavy medication