Legal and ethical issues in dementia care — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is characterized by the patient projecting feelings about formative or other important persons onto the physician

Answer: Transference

Flashcard 2: Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a form of child/elder _____

Answer: abuse

Flashcard 3: In cognitive testing; asking the patient to draw a clock oriented to the time requested tests _____

Answer: executive function

Flashcard 4: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 5: Pathologic grief is persistent (> _____ time) and causes functional impairment

Answer: 6 months

Flashcard 6: Which ego defense is defined as replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system? _____

Answer: Sublimation (mature defense)

Flashcard 7: mammillary bodies

Answer: confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confabulation, personality change, permanent anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Flashcard 8: frontal lobe

Answer: disinhibition; deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; reemergence of primitive reflexes

Flashcard 9: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition

Flashcard 10: aphasia

Answer: speech deficit due to high-order processing problem