[Health Sciences 2711A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (37 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

Document Summary

H e a l t h s c i e n c e s 2 7 1 1 a / b. Chapter 17 : physial and cognitive development in late adulthood. Profound cell death, structural and chemical abornoramlieis leads to seirous deterioation of mental and physical cognitive facilities. Set of disorders occurring almost entirely in old age in which many aspects of thought and behaviour are so impaired that everyday activities are interrupted: 13% of adults over 65, doulbed 5-6 years. Age 85 89: half of adults 90+ Women : higher rate then men after age 80. Aftrican americans: x2 incidence then whites. 2 most common forms of cortical dementia : alzheimers & cerebrovascular dementia. The most common form of demental in which structural and chemical brain deterioation is associated with gradual loss of many aspects of thoguth and behaviour.