lOMoARcPSD|1709022
lOMoARcPSD|1709022
Week 6 Collaboration Café
1. How does dementia related psychosis differ from
other types of psychosis?
• Psychotic symptoms are frequent in neurodegenerative
disorders and can be defined as the emergence of psychosis
after the onset of dementia, with a predominance of visual
hallucinations, and a related absence of more complex
delusions and thought disorders. These criteria emphasize
the more prominent characteristics of visual hallucinations
which are more common in psychosis of neurocognitive
disorders compared to the typical auditory hallucinations that
are predominantly present in non-dementia related
psychosis (Agüera- Ortiz et al., 2022).
2. Differentiate the clinical presentations of
psychosis in clients with the four different types of
dementia.
• Due to their nature and regardless of the etiology or the age of
the individual, psychosis symptoms are generally severe,
disruptive, persistent over time with little spontaneously limit
(Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD)
• One third to one half of individuals with AD will have
psychotic symptoms.
• Delusions can be divided into categories of
persecutory and misidentification.
• Persecutory delusions are focused on theft, abandonment and
jealousy
• Misidentification: is a failure to recognize one’s own house
(reduplication paramnesia), a belief that someone is living in
the house (phantom boarder syndrome), misinterpretation that
a loved one is an imposter, or they have changed their
appearance. Another belief is that the characters on the TV are
actually real and a failure to recognize one-self in the mirror
(Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
• Visual hallucinations consist of visions of alive or dead people,
objects or animals (Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI):
• Second most common type of dementia, caused by Strokes
and TIA’s mostly American (Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
• 5% of individuals with VCI will experience psychosis
, lOMoARcPSD|1709022
(Association, 2022)
lOMoARcPSD|1709022
Week 6 Collaboration Café
1. How does dementia related psychosis differ from
other types of psychosis?
• Psychotic symptoms are frequent in neurodegenerative
disorders and can be defined as the emergence of psychosis
after the onset of dementia, with a predominance of visual
hallucinations, and a related absence of more complex
delusions and thought disorders. These criteria emphasize
the more prominent characteristics of visual hallucinations
which are more common in psychosis of neurocognitive
disorders compared to the typical auditory hallucinations that
are predominantly present in non-dementia related
psychosis (Agüera- Ortiz et al., 2022).
2. Differentiate the clinical presentations of
psychosis in clients with the four different types of
dementia.
• Due to their nature and regardless of the etiology or the age of
the individual, psychosis symptoms are generally severe,
disruptive, persistent over time with little spontaneously limit
(Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD)
• One third to one half of individuals with AD will have
psychotic symptoms.
• Delusions can be divided into categories of
persecutory and misidentification.
• Persecutory delusions are focused on theft, abandonment and
jealousy
• Misidentification: is a failure to recognize one’s own house
(reduplication paramnesia), a belief that someone is living in
the house (phantom boarder syndrome), misinterpretation that
a loved one is an imposter, or they have changed their
appearance. Another belief is that the characters on the TV are
actually real and a failure to recognize one-self in the mirror
(Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
• Visual hallucinations consist of visions of alive or dead people,
objects or animals (Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI):
• Second most common type of dementia, caused by Strokes
and TIA’s mostly American (Agüera-Ortiz et al., 2022).
• 5% of individuals with VCI will experience psychosis
, lOMoARcPSD|1709022
(Association, 2022)
