Legal and ethical issues in dementia care US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Legal and ethical issues in dementia care Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: _____ is characterized by the patient projecting feelings about formative or other important persons onto the physician
Answer: Transference
Flashcard 2: Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a form of child/elder _____
Answer: abuse
Flashcard 3: In cognitive testing; asking the patient to draw a clock oriented to the time requested tests _____
Answer: executive function
Flashcard 4: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness
Answer: Dementia
Flashcard 5: Pathologic grief is persistent (> _____ time) and causes functional impairment
Answer: 6 months
Flashcard 6: Which ego defense is defined as replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system? _____
Answer: Sublimation (mature defense)
Flashcard 7: mammillary bodies
Answer: confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confabulation, personality change, permanent anterograde and retrograde amnesia
Flashcard 8: frontal lobe
Answer: disinhibition; deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; reemergence of primitive reflexes
Flashcard 9: conduction aphasia
Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere
Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition
Flashcard 10: aphasia
Answer: speech deficit due to high-order processing problem
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