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-January 2011, the oldest of the Boomers turned ___ years old
-10,000 will continue to turn 65 until ___ |
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| What ages are considered the oldest of the old? |
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| is a reaction to changes that overwhelm your emotional capacity and requires you to adjust or respond or “caregiver burnout” |
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| What are some signs of abuse? |
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| Emotional, physical, and behavioral |
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| What are some concomitant communication disorders? |
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| Apraxia, Dysarthria, vocal production disorders, aphasias, and alzheimer's disease |
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| This is a motor planning and motor speech disorder that interferes with the speech musculature's reception of motor commands |
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A patient with Apraxia has:
-Difficulty ___ sounds in syllables and words
-No effects on ___
-___ that their speech is not produced as intended
-___ |
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| sequencing; intelligence; Awareness; frustration |
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| Motor speech disorder that affects the muscles of the mouth, face, and respiratory system which may become weak or may move more slowly or not at all; characterized by muscle weakness |
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How care can be optimized for the elderly:
-___ as much as necessary
-If the patient has the condition: Minimize ___ and background ___. Concentrate on ___ the patient. Don't ___.
-If the patient is a caregiver of the person with the condition: Work with the SLP to develop ___ communication strategies |
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| Learn; distractions; noise; understanding; bluff; compensatory |
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| Results from damage to the brain in areas responsible for the expression and comprehension of language |
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| What are some typical causes of Aphasia? |
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| Head trauma, stroke, brain tumor, infection, or dementia |
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| results from temporal lobe damage and may result in patients speaking in long meaningless sentences with interjections of made-up words and has difficulty understanding others. Also known as “fluent” aphasia |
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| arises from the frontal lobe in areas responsible for motor movement and may produce a right-sided weakness or paralysis of an arm or a leg |
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| is another form of “nonfluent” aphasia from damage to language centers of the brain. Patients with global aphasia may have difficulty with expression and comprehension of language |
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