TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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1. CAN DEMENTIA BE REVERSED?
A) Yes
B) No
2. MUSICAL APTITUDE AND MUSIC COMPREHENSION IS THE LAST REMAINING ABILITIES TO LOSE IN DEMENTIA
A) TrueÂ
B) False
3. HOW DOES MUSIC BENEFIT ELDERS WITH DEMENTIA
A) Music evokes emotions that brings memories
B) Music can bring emotional and physical closeness
C) Music engages mind powerÂ
D) All of the above
4. WHICH IS NOT A NORMAL PART OF AGING ?
A) Not being able to remember details of conversationÂ
B) Forgetting things and events occasionallyÂ
C) Frequent pauses and substitutions when findings words
D) Not being able to remember the name of an acquaintance
1. B) NO
Dementia is a progressive disease, there is no cure and no treatment that slows or stops its progression. However there are ways to manage your symptoms
2. B) FALSE
Musical aptitude and music appreciation are two of the last remaining abilities in patients with Alzheimer’s, because these two abilities remain long after other abilities have passed, music is an excellent way to reach beyond the disease and reach the person.
3. D) ALL OF THE ABOVE
A) Music can evoke emotion in even the most advanced of dementia patients. By pairing music with every day activities, patients can develop a rhythm that helps them to the recall the memory of that activity, improving cognitive ability over time.
B) In the later stages of dementia, patients often lose the ability to share emotions with caregivers. Through music, as long as they are ambulatory, they can often dance. Dancing can lead to hugs, kisses and touching which brings security and memories.
C)As singing activated the left side of the brain, listening to music sparked activity in the right and watching the class activated visual areas of the brain. With so much of the brain being stimulated, the patients were exercising more mind power than usual.
4. C) FREQUENT PAUSES AND SUBSTITUTIONS
Frequent pauses and substitutions when findings words is not a normal part of aging and is a condition of memory loss