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

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

Repetition typically strengthens what type of memory?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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?