3. CF comes to see you and talk about his elderly grandmother, KF, who is 89...

3. CF comes to see you and talk about his elderly grandmother, KF, who is 89 years of age. She is not as responsive as she used to be. When he went to see her, he could tell she was forgetting to take her medications and noticed that her tremor had increased. He asks you if it is time for KF to stop driving.

Discussion Questions:

1. Discuss the changes in the brain with aging:

2. Explain why her tremors have increased:

3. Explain why it is best that KF not drive anymore.

Discuss what the International Headache society Diagnostic Criteria

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