The nurse caring for clients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease in a long-term care setting explains to the new nurse how multi-infarct dementia (MID) differs from AD. Which of the following is one of these differences?
A) AD has a faster onset.
B) AD progresses in step-wise fashion instead of gradual and continuous.
C) AD does not cause dementia.
D) MID usually coexists with other conditions.
D
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MID can be distinguished from AD in the following ways: (1) It has a faster onset; (2) it progresses in a stepwise fashion (not gradually and continuously); and (3) it usually coexists with other conditions (e.g., diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac disease, previous strokes). Both conditions are forms of dementia.
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