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. What would be the nurse's best response to the family?
A) "There are no treatments that will cure dementia."
B) "Treatments to cure dementia include the use of vitamin E."
C) "Treatments to cure dementia involve hormone replacement therapy."
D) "Treatments to cure dementia include the daily use of ginkgo biloba."
Answer: A
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 ginkgo 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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