Extra credit (1 point): Type your answer in the box What is the name of the organization that helps people with AD age in place by matching them with a trained service dog?

Extra credit (1 point): Type your answer in the box What is a Memory Cafe?

Which type of loss is described within the book as often prompting a “developmental push” which is likely to change a person’s outlook on life?

Extra Credit Question (1 point) Name another domain of cognitive ability that overlaps with speed of processing.

This term refers to mental pain as the result of a person’s most valued needs being unmet.

The three-stage model (mild AD, moderate AD, severe AD) used to characterize the severity of Alzheimer’s disease is the most common diagnostic model in use today. Describe any two of these stages, including the kinds of cognitive, behavioral and physical symptoms that can appear.

Extra Credit Question (1 point) Name one of the “Other Dementias” in which memory problems do not occur until later in the disease.

Within culturally competent care, it is more important to treat each person as the expert of their own experience than it is to have knowledge of every culture.

Describe how plaques and tangles are believed to be related to AD. For example, what are the plaques and tangles, what are they made of, and where are they located? What do the plaques and tangles do to the brain in AD? 

This is a term used to describe the self-protective psychological response to mass death/killing which involves becoming desensitized.