| A | B |
|---|
| Social Security Act | retired older people receive a pension from the government |
| CMS | Center for medicare and medicaid services |
| CMS | responsible for monitoring nursing homes to be sure they are following OBRA regulations |
| Long-term care insurance | private insurance to help pay for long-term care in the future should it be needed |
| chronic condition | ongoing condition controlled with medication or treatment |
| degenerative condition | condition that gets progressively worse over time |
| ADL's | bathing, dressing, eating, toileting |
| co-existent medical conditions | more than one medical condition at a time |
| cognitive impairment | problems processing, learning or remembering information |
| acute illness | unexpected illness with a rapid onset and relatively short recovery time |
| early stage dementia | memory losses that a person is aware are happening |
| middle stage dementia | may have difficulty communicating or recognizing familiar people and things |
| late stage dementia | person loses ability to walk and sit independently; unable to speak, swallow or smile, totally incontinent of urine |
| Alzheimer's Disease | most common cause of dementia |
| vascular dementia | mental functions lost related to multiple areas of the brain dining because of lack of oxygen and nutrients |
| Lewy body dementia | cause by build up of abnormal protein deposits in brain that affecting thinking and movement |
| amnesia | difficulty remembering |
| aphasia | difficulty using language |
| agnosia | difficulty recognizing info obtained through the five senses |
| apraxia | difficulty coordinating the steps to perform a task |
| validating therapy | acknowledge the person's reality rather than correcting the person |
| expressive aphasia | a person has difficulty finding the right word to say what they want to say |
| receptive aphasia | a person you ask to go with you to the dining room opens his closet to show you something instead |
| perseveration | doing the same thing over and over |
| rummaging | a person with dementia going through drawers or closets searching for something he is never able to find |
| sundowning | worsening behavior in the afternoon or evening |
| catastrophic reaction | a person with dementia screaming or sobbing loudly when you try to help them bathe |
| reminiscence therapy | encouraging a person with dementia to remember and share experiences from his past |
