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TACAbb1 - Effective Interventions with Dementia and Difficult Behaviors Post Test

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1.1 What type of technique is productive in helping an elderly person with Alzheimer’s understand what is being communicated?
2.1 What are some questions that can help a care giver determine if the behavior of an Alzheimer’s person is a problem?
3.1 What are three approaches used to avoid excess disability in a person with Alzheimers?
4.1 What are five tenets of validation?
4.2 Where is reality orientation commonly used today?

Answers:

A. Is the behavior harmful to anyone? Does the behavior keep the client from doing other things that might satisfy him or her more, given the stage of Alzheimer’s? Does the behavior keep the caregiver from functioning?
B. Accepting decline, regular assessment, adapting the amount and type of help directed toward specific tasks
C. Make the physical environment work, know that communication is possible, focus only on remaining skills, live in the patient’s world, enrich the patient’s life
D. Positive interaction techniques
E. Nursing homes, home care situations

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Questions:

6.1 What are six roles that a qualified mental health professional can play?
6.2 Although physical problems are important and should often take first priority, what should be assessed and addressed first in comprehensive end-of-life care?
6.3 Why do anxiety disorders commonly accompany terminal illness?
6.4 What are some end-of-life issues that counselors are faced with?
7.1 According to Black, Rabins, German, McGuire, and Roca, why might older adults underutilize psychological services?
7.2 What kinds of social support do older gay men and women depend on?

Answers:

A. Because of their apprehension to symptoms, including pain, and about treatment, care-taking arrangements, and fears about the dying process
B. Psychosocial matters that include emotional, intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the human experience
C. They might not recognize or under acknowledge mental health problems or because of their lack of Medicare/Medicaid
D. Advocate, counselor, educator, evaluator, multidisciplary team member, and researcher
E. Psychosocial issues, diagnosable mental disorders, anxiety disorders, clinical and other mood disorders, delirium, dementia, personality disorders, and substance abuse
F. Some gay men and women become alienated from their families if family members disapprove of their lifestyles. They may plan for aging by creating a support system of friends and significant others