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A physical therapist evaluates a patient with Alzheimer’s disease. Pertinent Subjective Information: The patient is able to state their name correctly but not their birthdate and they correctly state the name of their spouse The patient is able to speak and provides answers to the therapist’s questions, but their responses are not accurate The patient’s spouse reports that their memory is very limited and they are demonstrating increased agitation and some outbursts of profanity. The spouse also notes they need to help the patient with bathing, dressing, and toileting, and the patient is having increased episodes of incontinence. Objective Information: BIMS score 2/15 MoCA score 4/30 Transfer ability: Sit to stand transfers and bed mobility completed with supervision Gait: Patient ambulates with a front-wheeled walker with stand-by assistance for safety due to some impulsivity and mild unsteadiness. Based on this information, which stage of dementia based on the Global Disability Scale and/or Functional Assessment Staging Tool?

Match the character/s with the phrase that best describes him or her/them.

Identify the author of the work for the following quote: “Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs/About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green…”

Identify the title of the work for the following quote: “And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords/Of life./And I have something to epiate;/A pettiness.”

Identify the title of the work for the following quote: “Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;/Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see/A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings/And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Who wrote the lines “The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: and a thousand thousand slimy things lived on; and so did I…”

Edwardian England (1901-1910) joined the artist and the intellectual together with the high society.

Identify the author of the work for the following quote: “And a tense, musty ignorable silence,/Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off/My clycle-clips in awkward reference.”

In “The Darkling Thrush” the reader feels a sense of renewal upon hearing the thrush for the first time.

Identify the author of the work for the following quote: “How will they ever know, when they file newspaper clippings, evidence, proof, when they look at the photographs and see his face–guilty! guilty! they are right!–how will they know, when the police station burn with all the evidence of what has happened now,….”