The PMHNP is evaluating a 73-year-old patient who has just been discharged from the hospital after being treated for a urinary tract infection with associated delirium. She has a baseline major neurocognitive disorder and the spouse has been told in the past that the patient cannot take antipsychotics. However, while she was hospitalized she was given an antipsychotic for delirium and it seemed to help a lot. The spouse wants to know why the patient cannot take an antipsychotic for her chronic behavioral symptoms. The PMHNP knows that the patient most likely has which underlying cause of major neurocognitive disorder? A. Pick’s disease (FTD)B. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) C. Vascular disease (VaD) D. Parkinson’s disease (PD)
