Q 01/05

In which 2004 romance does an elderly man read a love story aloud to a nursing-home resident with dementia?

A) A Walk to Remember

B) The Notebook

C) Message in a Bottle

D) Nights in Rodanthe

Answer · why

B) The Notebook

The Notebook reveals that the listener is Allie, and the tale Duke reads is her own love story, written down so that he could help her remember him.

Q 02/05

Which former US president announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis in a handwritten letter to the nation in 1994?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Richard Nixon

C) Jimmy Carter

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

D) Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan wrote, 'I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life,' and lived with the disease for another ten years.

Q 03/05

A widely used screening test for early Alzheimer's disease asks patients to draw which everyday object?

A) A clock

B) A calendar

C) A telephone

D) A bicycle

Answer · why

A) A clock

A clock packs several skills into one small task: the patient has to draw the face, place every hour and then set the hands to a time the examiner nam...

Q 04/05

Hogeweyk, a gated village with its own supermarket and pub for residents with dementia, is in which country?

A) Switzerland

B) Denmark

C) Netherlands

D) Belgium

Answer · why

C) Netherlands

The Netherlands opened Hogeweyk in the town of Weesp, where caregivers wear everyday clothes and play the part of neighbors or friends rather than nur...

Q 05/05

The family of actor Bruce Willis announced in 2023 that his aphasia had progressed to which brain condition?

A) Lewy body dementia

B) Frontotemporal dementia

C) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

D) Huntington's disease

Answer · why

B) Frontotemporal dementia

Frontotemporal dementia attacks the frontal and temporal lobes, so it shows up as changes in personality or language, and it is among the most common ...