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Mental Health/Behavioral Health
• Legally competent—a person is capable of making appropriate decisions
• Clinically competent—individual’s ability to identify problems, recognize options, make decisions, and provide the rationale supporting the decisions
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Dementia
• Syndrome that involves a slowly progressive cognitive decline, sometimes referred to as chronic confusion
• Global impairment of intellectual function that is generally chronic and progressive
• Alzheimer’s disease
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Delirium
• Acute state of confusion• Usually short-term and reversible within 3
weeks or less• Often seen among older adults in a setting
with which they are unfamiliar• Can include physical manifestations of change
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Depression
• Mood disorder that can have cognitive, affective, and physical manifestations
• Primary depression• Secondary or situational depression• Geriatric Depression Scale used for
assessment• Treatment generally includes drug therapy
and psychotherapy
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Elder Neglect and Abuse
• Neglect—failure to provide basic needs• Physical abuse—use of physical force that
results in bodily injury• Financial abuse—mismanagement or misuse
of property or resources • Emotional abuse—intentional use of threats,
humiliation, intimidation, and isolation
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