GERIATRIC NURSING PRELIM || Questions with
Guaranteed Correct Solutions.
✔ a natural process common to all living things.
✔ a period of "getting senile"
✔ "looking gray & wrinkled" correct answers AGING
✔ refers to the # of yrs a person has lived
✔ easy to identify & measure & serves as a criterion in society for certain activities as driving,
employment, & collection of retirement benefit correct answers CHRONOLOGICAL AGE
YOUNG OLD RANGE correct answers 65 to 74 yrs old
MIDDLE OLD RANGE correct answers 75-84 yrs old
OLDER OLD RANGE correct answers 85 and Older
- refers to the determination of age by body function. Not useful in determining a person's ag
correct answers PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGE
refers to a person's ability to contribute to society & benefit others & himsel correct answers
FUNCTIONAL AGE
the branch of clinical medicine specializing in the care of the elde correct answers GERIATRICS
- the study of normal agin correct answers GERONTOLOGY
a method of providing palliative & supportive care when the older adult no longer wants active
medical treatment. It focuses on offering the individual comfort & dignity including pain relief,
symptom control, coordinated home care correct answers HOSPICE CARE
Institutions that serve individuals w/ chronic illnesses & physical impairments. The focus of care
is on those who do not require hospitalization but are unable to care for correct answers
NURSING HOMES
Characteristics Common to the Frail Elderly correct answers •Poor mental & physical health
•Low socioeconomic status
•Female gender (predominant)
•Isolated living conditions (possible)
•More & longer hospital stays w/ more money spent on health care & drugs
•More frequent visits to the doctor
•More use of nursing home beds than hospital bed
, refers to fear and the refusal to accept older people into the mainstream of society (teenagers
buying antiwrinkle cream, 30 y.o face lifts ,40 y.o hair transplant, long term marriages dissolving
so that one spouse can pursue someone younger. correct answers GERONTOPHOBIA
- is belief that aging makes people unattractive, unintelligent, & unproductive , emotional
prejudice. correct answers AGEISM
practice of treating people differently simply because of their age (refusing to hire older people,
barring from bank loans, limiting the types or amounts of health care provided despite laws
prohibitio correct answers AGE DISCRIMINATION
both positive & negative attributes correct answers GROWING OLD
expressed a direct correlation between man's age & the respect to which one was entitled. correct
answers CONFUCIUS TIME
viewed old age as the epitom correct answers TAOISM
- attaining old age was an accomplishment deserving the great honor. correct answers CHINESE
divided views, the myths portraying many struggles between old & young & quests for
immortality correct answers GREEK
promoted the aged as society's best leader correct answers PLATO
denying old age any role in gov't matters correct answers ARISTOTLE
- limited respect for their elders- in nation Rome conquered- the sick & the aged were first killed
correct answers ANCIENT ROMANS
is laced with a theme of respect for the aged correct answers BIBLE - (Honor your father and
your mother . . . Exodus 20:12)
strong feeling of superiority of youth occurred -uprising of sons against fathers - aged are the
first to be hurt by famine and poverty correct answers MIDDLE AGES
while child labor laws were developed to guard the frail lives of minors , lives of the aged were
left unprotected , those unable to meet industrial demands were placed at the mercy of their
offspring or forced to beg on the streets for sustenance correct answers 18 TO 19TH CENTURY
Father of Geriatrics - wrote the 1st geriatrics textbook in 1914 correct answers Dr. I.L Nascher
TRUE OR FALSE:
•families forget their older relative correct answers TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE:
Guaranteed Correct Solutions.
✔ a natural process common to all living things.
✔ a period of "getting senile"
✔ "looking gray & wrinkled" correct answers AGING
✔ refers to the # of yrs a person has lived
✔ easy to identify & measure & serves as a criterion in society for certain activities as driving,
employment, & collection of retirement benefit correct answers CHRONOLOGICAL AGE
YOUNG OLD RANGE correct answers 65 to 74 yrs old
MIDDLE OLD RANGE correct answers 75-84 yrs old
OLDER OLD RANGE correct answers 85 and Older
- refers to the determination of age by body function. Not useful in determining a person's ag
correct answers PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGE
refers to a person's ability to contribute to society & benefit others & himsel correct answers
FUNCTIONAL AGE
the branch of clinical medicine specializing in the care of the elde correct answers GERIATRICS
- the study of normal agin correct answers GERONTOLOGY
a method of providing palliative & supportive care when the older adult no longer wants active
medical treatment. It focuses on offering the individual comfort & dignity including pain relief,
symptom control, coordinated home care correct answers HOSPICE CARE
Institutions that serve individuals w/ chronic illnesses & physical impairments. The focus of care
is on those who do not require hospitalization but are unable to care for correct answers
NURSING HOMES
Characteristics Common to the Frail Elderly correct answers •Poor mental & physical health
•Low socioeconomic status
•Female gender (predominant)
•Isolated living conditions (possible)
•More & longer hospital stays w/ more money spent on health care & drugs
•More frequent visits to the doctor
•More use of nursing home beds than hospital bed
, refers to fear and the refusal to accept older people into the mainstream of society (teenagers
buying antiwrinkle cream, 30 y.o face lifts ,40 y.o hair transplant, long term marriages dissolving
so that one spouse can pursue someone younger. correct answers GERONTOPHOBIA
- is belief that aging makes people unattractive, unintelligent, & unproductive , emotional
prejudice. correct answers AGEISM
practice of treating people differently simply because of their age (refusing to hire older people,
barring from bank loans, limiting the types or amounts of health care provided despite laws
prohibitio correct answers AGE DISCRIMINATION
both positive & negative attributes correct answers GROWING OLD
expressed a direct correlation between man's age & the respect to which one was entitled. correct
answers CONFUCIUS TIME
viewed old age as the epitom correct answers TAOISM
- attaining old age was an accomplishment deserving the great honor. correct answers CHINESE
divided views, the myths portraying many struggles between old & young & quests for
immortality correct answers GREEK
promoted the aged as society's best leader correct answers PLATO
denying old age any role in gov't matters correct answers ARISTOTLE
- limited respect for their elders- in nation Rome conquered- the sick & the aged were first killed
correct answers ANCIENT ROMANS
is laced with a theme of respect for the aged correct answers BIBLE - (Honor your father and
your mother . . . Exodus 20:12)
strong feeling of superiority of youth occurred -uprising of sons against fathers - aged are the
first to be hurt by famine and poverty correct answers MIDDLE AGES
while child labor laws were developed to guard the frail lives of minors , lives of the aged were
left unprotected , those unable to meet industrial demands were placed at the mercy of their
offspring or forced to beg on the streets for sustenance correct answers 18 TO 19TH CENTURY
Father of Geriatrics - wrote the 1st geriatrics textbook in 1914 correct answers Dr. I.L Nascher
TRUE OR FALSE:
•families forget their older relative correct answers TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE:
