Cognitive Function

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Define Cognitive Function:

The performance of the mental process of perception, learning, memory, understanding, awareness, reasoning, judgment, interaction and language.

American Psychological Association

• Outline How the Brain works (add text link later to download?)
• John Hopkins Patient Education (link for now. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology-neurosurgery/specialty-areas/memory-disorders)

How is Cognitive Function Evaluated

• List Physician assessments
• List Physician assessments
• List Physician assessments

Mini Cog Test (eventually text links for all?)

• Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale
• Montreal Cognitive Assessment
• AD8 Dementia Screening Interview
• Geriatric Depression Scale
• Patient Health Questionnaire PHO-9
• Functional Activities Questionnaire
• Self Administered Gerocognitive Examination SAGE

Types of Questions Asked

• Ability to recall items from list.
• Ability to follow verbal instructions
• Demonstrate learning, spell words, write a sentence.
• Complete a simple math test.
• Tell time on a clock.
• Correctly state what year and day of the week
• NO studying needed prior to assessment, just take the assessment.

EXAMPLES OF COGNITIVE ISSUES

• Memory loss
• Difficult to Communicate
• Repeating same communication in short period
• Individual changing lifestyle, becoming introverted
• Difficulty in identifying family and friends
• Conversation is difficult, cannot stay on train of thought
• Focus is hard to maintain
• Distracted easily
• Difficult in following directions

What happens when you go to the Physician’s Office

• Provide assistance on what questions to ask the Physician.
• Have notes on what you have noticed in cognitive issues with your family member.

Steps to take by Individual and Family

1. Diet and Brain Health
2. Exercise and Brain Health
3. Medicine/Supplements and Brain Health
4. Sleep and Brain Health
5. Nutrition and Brain Health