Health Assessment

Dementia
- Gradual, Irreversible, progressive.
- Attention is normal, memory impaired
- Causes - ETOH use, Infarct, anoxia, AIDS
Delirium
- Abrupt, reversible, worse in PM
- Attention impaired
- Lentigines
- Liver Spots - hyperpigmented lesions

Author

acaronia

ID

43424

Card Set

Health Assessment

Description

Older Adult Assessment

Updated

2010-10-19T19:38:46Z

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