Worksheetsalzheimers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What might an Alzheimers doctor ask a patient or a patients family member about?
Their diet
How many pets their have
Information about past medical problems
What perfume their wearing
Which medication is used to treat moderate to severe Alzheimers?
Galantamine
Rivastigmine
Memantine
Donepezli
What is the biggest known risk factor for Alzheimers and other dementias?
Family history
genetics
age
deterministic genes
Those with an immediate family member with Alzheimers are (a) likely to develop the disease
Doctors tend to only use the term _____ _____ when a person has clear clinical features of two types of dementia
vascular dementia
mixed dementia
Lewy body dementia
frontotemporal dementia
Which is the second most common progressive dementia behind Alzheimers disease?
Lewy body dementia
frontotemporal dementia
vascular dementia
mixed dementia
frontotemporal dementia is____ and tends to occur at a ____ age
Common; older
rare; older
common; younger
rare; younger
True or False: Alzheimers and dementia is a normal part of aging
True
False
What % of Alzheimers cases are caused my deterministic genes?
10%
32%
1%
5%
_____ inhibitors prevent the breakdown of accetycholine
donepezli
memantine
edephesterease
cholinesterase
