PNUR 3403 Older Adults EXAM
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is SIGECAPS? - Correct Answers ✅Sleep Interest Guilt / worthlessness Energy Concentration / difficulty making decisions Appetite Psychomotor activity Suicidal Ideation IS PATH WARM - Correct Answers ✅Ideation Substance abuse Purposelessness Anxiety Trapped Hopelessness Withdrawal Anger Recklessness Mood change Depression in older adults can present as what? - Correct Answers ✅May present as the onset to dementia 1 / 4
PNUR 3403 Older Adults EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025) Depression in older adults may include a strong delusional component true or false? - Correct Answers ✅True, and it is not easily treatable with antipsychotic medications Give 5 examples of care approaches that are not helpful when caring for cognitively impaired adults - Correct Answers ✅Being aggressive / domineering Being vague with instructions / being broad Using a singular approach to all patients Talking down to them / diminishing their value / diminishing their abilities Acting like we know best / Acting like they are children Give 5 examples of nursing interventions that are informed by theories of aging - Correct Answers ✅Harm reduction / quitting smoking - Environmental theory Provision of education related to functional abilities as they age - Functional consequences theory Encourage physical activity as tolerated - Activity theory Encourage participation in groups of similarly aged / stage of lifed adults - Age stratification Encourage a diet higher in fresh vegetables, fruits, fibre - nutritional theory 2 / 4
PNUR 3403 Older Adults EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025) Preservation of function on manipulation of environment / activities of daily life Name 4 types of dementia - Correct Answers ✅Vascular dementia Alzheimer's disease Lewy bodie's diease Frontal Temporal dementia What is vascular dementia - Correct Answers ✅Onset is slow, post-stroke Caused by significant lack of oxygen to the brain Progresses in steps Alzheimer's disease - Correct Answers ✅Most common type of dementia (75%) Cause unknown (several theories) Reduction in brain acetylcholine Serious head trauma Genetic factors Presence of plaques and tangles 3 / 4
PNUR 3403 Older Adults EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
SOLVED (Newest 2025) Lewy body disease - Correct Answers ✅Earlier occurrence of visual hallucinations (NOT in Alzheimer's) Faster onset than Alzheimer's Caused by the presence of Lewy bodies present in the brain Frontal temporal dementia - Correct Answers ✅EARLY ONSET Causes people to have problems with speech, forgetting meaning of words Atrophy of frontal temporal lobes Behavioural symptoms (Dis-inhibition) Explain what medications are typically used in the treatment of delirium, dementia, depression - Correct Answers ✅Delirium - Identify underlying cause, treat accordingly. I.E antibiotics, analgesics though also antipsychotics (Haldol) Dementia - Cholinesterase inhibitors - boosts chemical messangers Depression - SSRI's other antidepressants Explain normal changes related to aging in the metabolism and urinary system - Correct Answers ✅Metabolism -
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