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== '''[[Scalawag]]''' ==
== '''[[Dementia]]''' ==
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In American history, a '''Scalawag''' was a Southern white who joined the Republican party during [[Reconstruction]]. They formed a coalition with [[Freedmen]] (blacks who were former slaves) and Northern newcomers (called [[Carpetbaggers]]) to take control of their state and local governments at various times, 1867-1877. Men who had not supported the Confederacy were eligible to take the "[[ironclad oath]]," as required by the Reconstruction laws in 1867 to vote or hold office. In the 1870s, many switched from the Republican Party to the conservative-Democrat coalition, called the [[Redeemers]], which defeated and replaced all the state Republican regimes by 1877.  
'''Dementia''' is "progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities."<ref name="pmid12614094">{{cite journal |author=Karlawish, J. & Clark, C. |title=Diagnostic evaluation of elderly patients with mild memory problems |journal=Ann Intern Med |volume=138 |issue=5 |pages=411-9 |year=2003 |pmid=12614094 | url=http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/138/5/411}}</ref>


Their primary interest was in supporting a party that would build the South on a broader base than the plantation aristocracy of ante-bellum days.  They found it expedient to do business with blacks and carpetbaggers; increasingly after 1872 they returned to the Democratic party as it gained sufficient strength to be a factor in Southern politics.<ref>Franklin p. 100</ref>
Deficits in cognitive function contribute to impaired functional status.<ref name="pmid17827410">{{cite journal |author=Royall DR, Lauterbach EC, Kaufer D, Malloy P, Coburn KL, Black KJ |title=The cognitive correlates of functional status: a review from the Committee on Research of the American Neuropsychiatric Association |journal=The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=249–65 |year=2007 |pmid=17827410 |doi=10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19.3.249}}</ref> The deficits in the domains of cognitive function are<ref name="pmid17551132">{{cite journal |author=Holsinger T, Deveau J, Boustani M, Williams JW |title=Does this patient have dementia? |journal=JAMA |volume=297 |issue=21 |pages=2391–404 |year=2007 |pmid=17551132 |doi=10.1001/jama.297.21.2391}}</ref>:
* Agnosia - "Failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function"<ref name="pmid17551132"/>
* Aphasia - "Deterioration of language function"<ref name="pmid17551132"/>
* Apraxia - "Impaired ability to execute motor activities despite intact motor abilities, sensory function, and comprehension of the required task"<ref name="pmid17551132"/>
* Disturbance in executive functioning - "The ability to think abstractly and to plan, initiate, sequence, monitor, and stop complex behavior"<ref name="pmid17551132"/>


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Revision as of 23:30, 28 June 2012

Dementia

Dementia is "progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities."[1]

Deficits in cognitive function contribute to impaired functional status.[2] The deficits in the domains of cognitive function are[3]:

  • Agnosia - "Failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function"[3]
  • Aphasia - "Deterioration of language function"[3]
  • Apraxia - "Impaired ability to execute motor activities despite intact motor abilities, sensory function, and comprehension of the required task"[3]
  • Disturbance in executive functioning - "The ability to think abstractly and to plan, initiate, sequence, monitor, and stop complex behavior"[3]

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