20 Questions to Test Your Dementia Knowledge

Do you think you are smarter than the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners?

1. Alzheimer’s disease affects men and women? True or False
2. Dementia in itself is not a disease and covers a broad range of symptoms? True or False
3. Currently, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease? True or False
4. When communicating with someone with dementia, you should never validate their feelings and always tell them the truth? True or False
5. When rendering care or providing tasks, we should provide one instruction at a time? True or False
6. Care providers should use gestures? True or False
7. An individual with Alzheimer’s may ask the same question over and over? True or False
8. Repetitive behaviors may include, asking the same question over and over, pacing back and forth and/or touching the same item over and over? True or False
9. Too much stimulation may cause an individual with Alzheimer’s to wander? True or False
10. Older people hoard for a variety of reasons? True or False
11. Older people may hoard items they perceive are valuable to them? True or False
12. Hallucinations can be visual, hearing, sounds, taste or touch? True or False
13. Late afternoon confusion is also referred to as Sun downing? True or False
14. Providing meaningful activities such as folding clothes, watering plants and sorting items can make clients/family members feel useful? True or False
15. Living environments should be homelike and reflect their personal taste with pictures, bedspreads, plants, family photos and knick-knacks? True or False
16. A successful dementia care provider has special skills such as; flexibility, creativity, sense of humor, positive attitude, and a willingness to learn? True or False
17. It is important to understand the healing preferences and practices of our family members and the individuals we work with? True or False
18. When an individual with Alzheimer’s can no longer swallow, they must have a feeding tube? True or False
19. Involve your family members or the individuals you are working with in religious programs even if they do not seem to understand? True or False
20. Alzheimer’s disease is referred to as a long goodbye. As death is approaching, we should be very supportive of the family members? True or False

Test Your Knowledge Quiz Answer Key:

Questions 1- 3 TRUE

Question 4 is FALSE

Questions 5 – 20 TRUE