Deck 5: Teaching and Communication With Older Adults and Their Families

Question 1

Episodic memory and working memory are the most affected by the aging process, whereas semantic, lexical, and nondeclarative memory are more likely to be preserved.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

For older adults, it is more difficult to differentiate between red and yellow than between green and blue.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Older adults are thought to hold approximately five to nine pieces of information, such as a phone number, in short-term memory.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Repetition typically strengthens what type of memory?

A) Lexical memory
B) Semantic memory
C) Episodic memory
D) Nondeclarative memory

Question 5

Although other conditions and diseases can cause language impairments, what term is used if it is primarily a language deficit?

A) Anomia
B) Apraxia
C) Aphasia
D) Dysarthria

Question 6

Individuals with what type of aphasia are generally unaware of their communication deficits and seem to have a cognitive filter that makes sense in their own mind but not to others?

A) Global aphasia
B) Broca's aphasia
C) Wernicke's aphasia
D) Primary progressive aphasia

Question 7

Which of the following has recently been described as an art and a science of using teaching strategies that lead older adults to higher levels of empowerment and emancipation?

A) Gerogogy
B) Pedagogy
C) Androgogy
D) Heutagogy

Question 8

Individuals with what medical condition have a reduction of air pressure needed to adequately support speech?

A) Huntington's disease
B) Alzheimer's disease
C) Parkinson's disease
D) Addison's disease

Question 9

Which of the following is the one common feature associated with all types of aphasia?

A) Anomia
B) Apraxia
C) Anoxia
D) Dysarthria

Question 10

What agency has recognized and mandated attention be placed on effective communication in healthcare settings to prevent errors and safety issues?

A) The American Hospital Association
B) The American Medical Association
C) The Joint Commission on American Hospitals
D) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Question 11

The older adult has a natural progression of sensory and cognition reduction over time, but it is not uniform or consistent from person to person.

Question 12

Studies show that memories that are especially difficult to recall are often the result of not having a connection with the hippocampus.

Question 13

Dysarthria and apraxia are speech and motor impairments caused by musculoskeletal changes in the body.

Question 14

Phelps (2004) expanded the idea of memory as being more vivid and memorable is it is tied to an emotional state created by what part of the brain charging the hippocampal memory system?

A) Amygdala
B) Stria terminalis
C) Cerebellum
D) Hypothalamus

Question 15

Some adults who have suffered a stroke will have brain damage that has an impact on what the person wants to say, causing what language impairment?

A) Anomia
B) Apraxia
C) Aphasia
D) Dyarthria

Question 16

What type of memory is an immediate brain function that can describe what you are thinking at any given moment?

A) Active memory
B) Working memory
C) Episodic memory
D) Lexical memory

Question 17

Surgical interventions such as Karma inlay, monovision Lasik, or refractive lens exchange are commonly performed as treatment for what medical condition?

A) Cataract
B) Glaucoma
C) Presbyopia
D) Macular degeneration

Question 18

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative brain disease that first affects which of the following?

A) Memory
B) Cognition
C) Personality
D) Communication

Question 19

The most common complaint from someone with what progressive medical condition is that the person can hear but does not understand what was said?

A) Tinnitus
B) Presbycusis
C) Otosclerosis
D) Meniere's Disease

Question 20

If there is a vascular blockage, especially in this part of the brain, it can cause a dementia that also brings on depression symptoms?

A) Frontotemporal brain
B) Frontocerebellar brain
C) Frontostriatal brain
D) Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex