Cognitive impairment definition

Cognitive impairment means a deficiency in a person’s short-term or long-term memory; orientation as to person, place, and time; deductive or abstract reasoning; or judgment as it relates to safety awareness.

Cognitive impairment means that due to an Injury or Sickness, the Insured Employee:

Cognitive impairment means that the Insured Employee or Dependent:

Examples of Cognitive impairment in a sentence

• You require Substantial Supervision for your health or safety due to Severe Cognitive Impairment as a result of Physical Disease or Injury.

• Exception: The effective date will be delayed for an Insured Employee who is unable to perform one or more Activities of Daily Living or suffers from a Cognitive Impairment on that date.

• I have read and understand that, for coverage that does not require me to submit evidence of insurability, loss of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) or Severe Cognitive Impairment must occur after my effective date of coverage under this Long Term Care plan in order to be covered, and that certain limitations and exclusions apply to my coverage.

• Severe Cognitive Impairment is not related to the inability to perform ADLs. Rather, Severe Cognitive Impairment means that you have lost the ability to reason and suffer a decrease in awareness, intuition and memory.

• Proof Of Loss for the Assisted Living Benefit must be provided within 90 days after the date the inability to perform Activities Of Daily Living or the Severe Cognitive Impairment begins.

More Definitions of Cognitive impairment

Cognitive impairment means the loss or deterioration in intellectual capacity that meets these requirements:

Cognitive impairment means a deficiency in a person’s:

Cognitive impairment means that the person, as determined by the clinical judgment of the LTC Nurse or the AA, does not have the capability to think, reason, remember or learn required for self-care, communicating needs, directing care givers and/or using appropriate judgment for maintenance of their own health or safety. The clinical judgment of cognitive impairment is based on MSQ performance in combination with a more general evaluation of cognitive function from interaction with the person during the UCAT assessment.

Cognitive impairment means a severe deficit in mental capability that affects a waiver individual's areas of functioning such as thought processes, problem solving, judgment, memory, or comprehension that interferes with such things as reality orientation, ability to care for self, ability to recognize danger to self or others, or impulse control.

Cognitive impairment means the loss of those thought processes that orchestrate relatively simple ideas, movements, or actions into goal-directed behavior.

Cognitive impairment generally means a loss or deterioration in a person’s intellectual capacity and includes diseases like Alzheimer’s and various forms of irreversible dementia. “Activities of daily living” generally means routine daily self-care activities, such as getting dressed, eating, using the bathroom and getting in and out of bed.

Cognitive impairment means confusion or disorientation resulting from a deterioration or loss of intellectual capacity that is not related to or a result of mental illness but which can result from Alzheimer’s disease or similar forms of senility or irreversible dementia. This deterioration or loss of intellectual capacity is established through use of standardized tests that reliably measure impairment in the following areas: