The nurse is teaching the family of a client who has just been diagnosed with dementia. The family asks what treatments are available that will cure the client. The nurse responds that treatments found to reverse progressive dementia:
1. Involve estrogen therapy.
2. Include vitamin E.
3. Are nonexistent.
4. Include gingko biloba extract.
3. Are nonexistent.
Rationale:
Currently no treatment has been found to reverse or stop the pathological process in progressive dementia. Studies done on the effect of estrogen in postmenopausal women, vitamin E, and gingko biloba extract have shown some positive results in delaying the progress, but nothing has proved conclusively to reverse or stop progressive dementia.
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