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During your journey through Geriatric Dementia, Delirium and Depression, you will experience how to:
• Differentiate delirium, depression & dementia.
• Describe the etiology & signs and symptoms of delirium, depression, and dementia.
• Identify risk factors for delirium, depression, and dementia.
• Identify types of medications that may cause depression.
• Communicate and care for people experiencing delirium.
• Explain non-pharmacologic interventions for treating dementia.
In order to minimize risk and customize interventions, we have to know where and how our clients are living.
The picture on the first slide is from geriatric simulation lab, where nursing students practice administering geriatric assessment scales to identify areas of risk. What risks and hazards can you see in this picture?
What you can't see is that the V8 Splash bottle is actually whiskey, medications and incontinence briefs are scattered all over the floor and our client is using oxygen via nasal cannula while smoking. Would picking up the trash and organizing the house fix the problem? Fifty percent of the students verbalized wanting to clean up during their assessment visit and some asked if they could tidy up upsetting the client.
Every problem deserves a viable solution. A comprehensive geriatric assessment is in order and interventions need to follow by assembling the geriatric team.
Our client's assessment findings were all high risk.
View the geriatric assessment scales with how to administer articles & videos at http://consultgerirn.org/resources.
What do we do next? We need to assemble the geriatric team to intervene.
View assembling the geriatric team "Assessments and Referrals" at http://www.environmentalgeriatrics.org/cme/extra/noCredit.html.
Hopefully at minimum the discharging physician ordered the home health care services necessary to bridge our client's hospital to home care.
If the geriatric assessment scales were performed prior to hospital discharge the physician should have recognized that with all her high risk findings she should not have been discharged home alone. At minimum she requires 24 hour supervision for safety.
The students all felt our client was confused and attributed it to her whiskey drinking, but after performing her Mini Cog they realized she was screening positive for dementia. How many clients slip through the cracks because of lack of assessment?
Our client confabulated and was quite convincing until the students saw her clock draw. Now they knew environmental observations were much more important than client self-report.
A picture is worth a thousand words. We fail our clients until we learn the assessment skills required to paint an accurate picture.
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Geriatric Population the 3 D's Geriatric Dementia, Delirium and Depression 2015
1.
2. LET’S DISCUSS HOW TO
Differentiate delirium, depression &
dementia.
Describe the etiology and signs and
symptoms of delirium, depression, and
dementia.
Identify risk factors for delirium,
depression, and dementia.
3. LET’S DISCUSS HOW TO
Identify types of medications that may
cause depression.
Communicate and care for people
experiencing delirium.
Explain non-pharmacologic interventions
for treating dementia.
4. DELIRIUM
Cholinergic/dopaminergic excess
Cascade of events
Complicates hospitalizations
Is a medical emergency
Durso, S. C. & et al. (2010).
Sometimes preventable by minimizing
medication use and adequate hydration
7. COMMUNICATION IN
DELIRIUM
Know the person’s
patterns
Look at nonverbal
signs
Speak slowly
Explain all actions
Be calm
Face the person
keep eye contact
Get to the level of
the person, don’t
stand over them
Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012).
8. COMMUNICATION IN
DELIRIUM
Smile
Use simple familiar
words
Allow adequate time
for response
Repeat if needed
BE Consistent
Tell the person what
you want them to do
One-step directions
Reassure safety
Do not assume they
cannot understand
Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012).
11. DEPRESSION
Not a normal part of aging
Most common mental health problem of late life
Among the most treatable
Often co-occurs illness “unwanted cotraveler”
Up to 1 in 4 primary care clients suffer from
depression
Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012).
12. MEDICATIONS MAY
RESULT IN DEPRESSIVE
SYMPTOMS
Antihypertensives
Angiotensin-
Converting Enzyme
Inhibitors
Antidysrhythmics
Anticholesteremics
Antibiotics
Analgesics
Corticosteroids
Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012).
13. DEPRESSION
Two simple questions effectively
screen:
Over the past 2 weeks, have you felt
down, depressed or hopeless?
Have you experienced a loss of
interest or pleasure in most things?
Durso, S. C. & et al. (2010).
14. DEPRESSION
Supportive treatment
Counseling, relief of loneliness
Treat physical symptoms and pain
Address anxiety, financial, dependency
Consider stopping contributory drugs
Psychotherapy effective as antidepressants
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
15. comprehension
DEMENTIA
The term dementia describes a syndrome
Chronic and progressive brain disease
Affects higher cortical functions
memory
language
judgment
learning
capacity
thinking orientation
calculation
Bereczki, D. & Szatmári, S. (2009).
16.
17. IMPACT
35.6 million with dementia
Nearly doubles every 20 years
Alzheimer’s in the USA will
ALMOST TRIPLE BY 2050
World Alzheimer Report 2011.
18. 28 million of
the world’s
35.6 million
people with
dementia have
yet to receive a
diagnosis…
World Alzheimer Report 2011.
20. Annual dementia
care costs
$32,865
per person
With a quality
dementia diagnosis
annual dementia cost
decreases to $5,000
per person
Improved health
& quality of life
even more
cost-effective
Impact of a Quality
Dementia Diagnosis
World Alzheimer Report 2011.
21. Earlier diagnosis allows
people with dementia to…
plan ahead while
they still have the
capacity, receive
timely practical
information, advice
and support
get access to available
drug and non-drug
therapies
participate in
research for the
benefit of future
generations
World Alzheimer Report 2011.
22. 7.7 million new cases yearly.
New case of dementia every?
A. 18 minutes
B. 23 hours
C. 4 seconds
D. 23 minutes
E. 30 seconds
C. 4 seconds
24. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
DEMENTIA
WAL-MART
EXXON MOBIL
100 BILLION US DOLLARS
Dementia Costs More Than
1% Gross Domestic Product
Borson, S. & et al. (2013).
If dementia were a company, it would be the
world’s largest by annual revenue.
25. RISK
Age
Family history and genetics
Psychiatric disorders
Cardiovascular disease – related factors
Head trauma
Alcohol, drugs & toxins
Vasculitis, Endocrine & Infectious disorders
Neoplastic & Respiratory disorders
Brain lesions, normal pressure hydrocephalus
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010) & Patterson, C. & et al. (2007).
26. MILD COGNITIVE
IMPAIRMENT
NOT the result of normal aging
Forgetfulness is hallmark symptom
Sometimes called a transitional phase
Conversion rate 2 - 15% per year
Up to 80% conversion at 6 years
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010).
27. MAJOR DEMENTIA TYPES
AD Alzheimer’s disease
VaD Vascular dementia
FTD Frontotemporal dementia
PDD Parkinson’s disease dementia
DLB Dementia with Lewy bodies
Others: SD Semantic dementia, Progressive
nonfluent aphasia, etc.
28. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL
DOMAINS
Premorbid ability: review of
educational, occupation
Verbal memory: verbal and
memory learning tests
Visual memory: visual
reproduction, figure drawing
Simple attention: digit span
Language: animal naming, oral
word association test
Executive function: card
sort test, similarities
Visuospatial: digit symbol
test, clock drawing
Motor: finger tapping
Cognitive screening:
MMSE, SLUMS, MoCA, etc.
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010).
29. OTHER DOMAINS
Function
Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living ADL
Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale IADL
Get-up and go
Caregiver Input
Depression
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale HDRS
Geriatric Depression Scale GDS
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010).
30. DIAGNOSTIC
LABORATORY
CBC, CMP, Thyroid, B12, Folate, CRP,
RPR, Lipids, HIV, SED rate, etc.
May need to rule out delirium urine
sample, blood cultures, chest x-ray, CSF
Neuroimaging
MRI or CT - Choice depends on
availability, cost, patient acceptability,
contraindication
MRI is preferred. SPECT & PET
scanning, Pittsburgh Compound-B
ligand for PET
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010).
31. Reports of progressive
change in cognition or ADL
Clinical assessment
Is cognitive impairment
confirmed on formal testing?
Is ADL impaired
Is onset relatively sudden
with disturbed attention?
Investigations, including
neuroimaging
Is a non-vascular etiology for
dementia identified?
Is a vascular etiology for
dementia identified?
Is parkinsonism, visual hallucinations
or fluctuating cognition present?
Is presentation with isolated
language and/or executive deficits?
Is episodic memory deficit prominent?
Consider depression,
anxiety, normal agingNO
NO
Mild Cognitive
Impairment
YES Delirium
Is cognitive impairment
persistent despite
appropriate treatment
YES
YES
Toxic, NPH, tumor, Huntington, head
injury, MS, HIV, Neurosyphilis, CJD,
metabolic – thyroid, B12 deficiency
YES
Vascular dementia,
SDH, vasculitis
YES
Dementia with Lewy bodies,
Parkinson’s disease dementia
YES Frontotemporal dementia
YES Alzheimer’s disease
DIAGNOSTIC PROCESSFillit,H.M.&etal.(2010).
32.
33. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Impairment in memory
Functional impairment social
or vocational
And impairment in one other
cognitive area
Agnosia - impaired ability recognize objects
Aphasia - language disturbances in expressing,
understanding
Apraxia - inability to carry out motor activities
Attention
Executive function
Visuospatial ability
Other criteria:
Progression is
insidious and
other diseases that
could cause
cognitive decline
have been ruled
out, diagnosis is
primarily based on
clinical judgment.
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010).
34. AD - Damage to plaque and
neurofibrillary tangles, synapse
loss, atrophy starts medial
temporal lobe
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
Understanding Language
Processing Auditory
Information
Organizing Information
Memory
Learning
35. JILL, 86 YO CAUCASIAN FEMALE,
COMPLETED SOME COLLEGE
CAM: negative
ADLs: Independent in eating & transfer
IADLs: Dependent in ALL
GDS: 4/15, negative
Labs: not remarkable
Brain Imaging: Diffuse atrophy
PMH: HTN, DM II, CAD
Physical Exam: Confabulates
Increasingly more forgetful for the past 6
months…
36. CAM - negative
No Feature 1: Acute Onset or Fluctuating Course
No Feature 2: Inattention
No Feature 3: Disorganized thinking
No Feature 4: Altered Level of consciousness
The diagnosis of delirium by CAM requires the
presence of features 1 and 2 and either 3 or 4.
Inouye, S. & et al. (1990).
41. Feature Delirium Dementia Depression
Onset Sudden Insidious Recent
Course over 24
Hours
Fluctuates, often
worse at night
Fairly stable Fairly stable,
may be worse in
the morning
Consciousness Reduced Clear Clear
Alertness Variable Normal Normal
Psychomotor
Activity
Variable, mixed Normal Variable, mixed
Attention
Concentration
Disordered Normal Little
Impairment
Orientation Impaired,
fluctuates
Impaired, tries
to answer,
confabulates
Usually normal,
“I don’t know”
may try not to
answer
Speech Often
incoherent, slow
or raid
Word finding,
perseveration
May be slow
Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012).
42. VASCULAR DEMENTIA
Second most prevalent
dementia 1/3
Also know as multi-
infarct dementia
The brain has multiple
vascular lesions in the
cortex and subcortical
areas, sometimes called
“small strokes”
Memory loss most
common complaint
The cognitive changes
that occur are directly
related to the location of
the lesions
Working memory more
likely to be impaired
more than delayed recall
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010).
44. JOHN, 70 YO CAUCASIAN MALE,
RETIRED PHARMACIST
CAM: negative
ADLs: Independent in ALL
IADLs: Dependent in ALL
GDS: 3/15, negative
Labs: ESRD
PMH: Insulin dependent diabetic
Physical Exam: gait imbalance, due
worsening vision/peripheral neuropathy
Reports he trusts his wife to make all his
decisions as he no longer can, “I do whatever
she wants…”
45. JOHN’S MRI
MRI Brain:
Small punctate acute ischemic lesion
in the right hippocampus, diffuse
extensive chronic white matter
microvascular ischemic changes and
volume loss advanced for age.
46.
47. Functional Assessment
Staging (FAST)
Stage 1 Normal adult.
No functional decline.
Stage 2 Normal older adult.
Personal awareness of some functional
decline.
Stage 3 Early AD. Noticeable deficits
in demanding job situations.
Stage 4 Mild AD. Requires assistance
in complicated tasks such as handling
finances, planning parties, etc.
Stage 5 Moderate AD.
Requires assistance in choosing proper
attire.
Stage 6 Moderately Severe AD.
Requires assistance dressing, bathing,
and toileting. Experiences urinary and
fecal incontinence.
Stage 7 Severe AD.
Speech ability declines to about a half-
dozen intelligible words. Progressive
loss of the ability to walk, sit-up, smile,
and hold head up.
48. maintaining
reestablishing
independence
Improving and
stabilizing cognitive
ability and mood
TREATMENT GOALS
effective future
planning
symptom
management
orientating
redirecting
pharmacologic
therapies
daily care
safety as
needed
Fillit, H. M. & et al. (2010) & Bereczki, D. & Szatmári, S. (2009).
caregiver
interventions
nonpharmacologic
promoting
autonomy
49. NON-PHARMACOLOGIC
INTERVENTIONS
DEMENTIA
Person-Centered Care
Structure the environment and relationships to
maintain stability – Stable & Predictable
Establish a caring relationship
Provide unconditional positive regard
Find causes of behavior, identify triggers
Provide as much control as possible
Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012).
52. DEMENTIA KEY FINDINGS
Most people wish to be told of their diagnosis
Improving the likelihood of earlier diagnosis:
medical practice-based educational programs,
introduction of accessible dementia care services,
promoting effective interaction in the health system
Early therapeutic interventions:
improving cognitive function, treating depression,
improving caregiver mood, delaying
institutionalization
World Alzheimer Report 2011
53. What’s Your Story?
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