OCC2014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Costs In English Law, Learning Disability, Motor System
28 Jul 2018
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Describe the clinical reasoning process used to select an appropriate cognitive screening tool. Name 5 cognitive screening tool for use with an adult who has suspected memory impairment. Identify how these tools could assist in directing your functional assessment. Thinking, remembering, reasoning/making sense of the world. Inter-related processes: perceive, organise, assimilate, manipulate information, process information to learn and generalise. Impairment can result from: developmental or learning disorders, brain injury or disease, psychiatric dysfunction, socio-cultural conditions. Basic cognitive functions: attention, concentration, memory, perception of spatial relations, visual attention and scanning, thinking (categorisation, sequencing) Cannot be understood properly without referencing to the motor system. Long developmental process influenced by social context (e. g. language, education). To understand: occupational consequences of impaired cognition, specific cognitive components that are impacting on performance, interaction between person, occupation and environment and how they contribute to cognition, level of cognitive impairment/function. To establish a baseline to measure change against (monitor improvement).
