What type of patients go to memory care? Dementia or Alzheimer’s What type of environment is a memory care unit? Locked unit, 24-7 supervision. What type of activities do you implement to interact with memory care patients? Activities that help them to recall their past-show old photos, ask questions like what was your first job? Where did you grow up? What was your parents’ names? If a patient is not engaged in a group of people sharing photos what might they be feeling? Depressed, Isolated, Angry Can a social worker make a decision about placement for an elderly person if that person has living family members, a POA? No, they cannot make the decision. Nurses must educate family about decisions. What does agnosia mean? Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage. Example of something that could cause agnosia? TBI, vascular dementia. Characteristics of delirium. Rapid in onset, 24-72 hours, related to infection, NOT common with aging. What is an important intervention for patients with delirium? Reorient them. What are the primary characteristics of borderline personality disorder? splitting people (Pitting a group against each other). Self-defeating cycle of behavior. What do you give a patient who has overdosed on PCP? Benzodiazepine Example of a benzodiazpine antidote? Flumazenil What type of personality disorder might a patient who still lives at home at 30 and depends on their mother for everything, have?