Name Three Characteristics That May Place Some Elderly Persons at an Increased

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Essay

Name three characteristics that may place some elderly persons at an increased risk for dehydration. Identify five of the seven symptoms of dehydration.

Appreciate the contribution of drug therapy to the reduction in the number of residents in mental hospitals and its impact on mental health care.

Identify the characteristics and treatments of tardive dyskinesia as a side effect of long-term psychopharmacological treatment.

Identify effective treatments for bipolar disorder.

Understand alternative treatments for depression beyond medication.

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Definitions:

Effortful Processing

Effortful processing is a type of memory encoding that requires awareness, attention, and effort to encode information.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.

Sequential Processing

Processing one aspect of a stimulus or problem at a time; generally used to process new information or to solve difficult problems.

Effortful Processing

A type of memory processing that requires attention and conscious effort in order to encode information.