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Alzheimer's: AD Research and Improving Support for Families

3.00 - CE credit hours training

$18.00 - Cost of course

This page contains important information about the course, including training details, a comprehensive course description, learning objectives, and source references. We encourage you to review each section to gain a clear understanding of the course content, educational goals, and supporting materials before beginning your training and taking the POST TEST below.

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

Alzheimer's: AD Research and Improving Support for Families

Follow the link below, read the material and then take the 17 question post test

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Alzheimer's: AD Research and Improving Support for Families

17 Questions

1. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people. Recent estimates of how many people in the United States currently have Alzheimer's Disease differ, with numbers ranging from 2.4 million to 4.5 million, depending on how Alzheimer's is measured.
2. Alzheimer's disease not only affects the patients but also the caregivers and their needs can be expected to rise rapidly as the population ages and as the number of people with Alzheimer's disease grows.
3. During their years of Alzheimer's disease care giving, spouses, relatives, and friends experience great emotional, physical, and financial challenges. As the disease runs its course and the abilities of people with Alzheimer's disease steadily decline, family members face difficult, and often costly, decisions about the long-term care of their loved ones.
4. Researchers have found that a number of devastating neurodegenerative diseases (for example, AD, Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, front temporal lobar degeneration, Huntington's disease, and prion diseases) share a key characteristic-- that is
5. Lifestyle factors can influence cognitive functions when a person grows old. These lifestyle factors include
6. The important things people should consider before joining a clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease are:
7. Alzheimer's Disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks
8. In most people with AD, symptoms first appear after age 52
9. One type is the rare, early-onset Alzheimer's disease. It usually affects people aged 50 to 70.
10. Between 70 and 90 percent of people with AD eventually develop one or more of the following behavioral symptoms:
11. The physical and emotional effects of Alzheimer's Disease caregiving can last a long time, even after the death of the the person with Alzheimer's Disease
12. Nursing home costs now average more than $30,000 per year.
13. During their years of Alzheimer's disease care giving, spouses, relatives, and friends experience great emotional, physical, and financial challenges. As the disease runs its course and the abilities of people with Alzheimer's disease steadily decline, family members face difficult, and often costly, decisions about the long-term care of their loved ones.
14. Researchers found a gene on chromosome 19 that they were able to link to late-onset AD.
15. Alzheimer's Disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people.
16. In 1906 Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German neurologist and psychiatrist, was the first to describe two of the hallmarks of AD--numerous globs of sticky proteins in the spaces between neurons (beta-amyloid plaques) and a tangled bundle of fibrils within neurons (neurofibrillary tangles).
17. In the 1970's diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's Disease was established.
*Note: The content for this course is Part 3 and Part 4 of the document.

Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with AD, symptoms first appear after age 60. AD is caused by a disease that affects the brain. In the absence of disease, the human brain often can function well into the 10th decade of life. Not so long ago, we were not able to do much for people with AD. Today, that situation is changing. Thousands of scientists, voluntary organizations, and health care professionals are studying AD so that they can find ways to manage, treat, and one day prevent this terrible disease.

This training was developed by National Institute on Drug Abuse?(NIH) to assist clinical professionals in understanding Alzheimer's disease, research on causes, diagnosis, prevention, potential treatments, and caregiver support. This training is in the public domain. CEUnits.com has developed a course based on this public information.
  • Describe long-term care issues pertaining to the aging population.
  • Identify alternative arrangements for the elderly.
  • Respond effectively to mental health issues to which the elderly population is vulnerable.
  • Identify alzheimer's stages, activities of daily living, cognitive and emotional changes
  • Assess the treatment strategy currently being used by physicians for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Apply knowledge from this course to practice and/or other professional contexts.
Anne Brown Rodgers, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Published by National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Health