NCCAP NATIONAL UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Cohort Effect - ✔✔The consequences of having been born in a given year and
having grown up during a particular time period with its own unique pressures,
problems, challenges, and opportunities.
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔The idea that the negative effects of patterns of
inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over the life
span.
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement.
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔A subfield of gerontology with an emphasis on social rather
than physical aspects of aging.
✔✔Functional Age - ✔✔Actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔An overall state of well-being or total health.
,✔✔Palliative Care - ✔✔Care provided to those suffering from chronic and serious
illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six months
to live, palliative care has no time frame.
✔✔Age Grades - ✔✔Permanent age categories in a society through which people pass
during the course of a lifetime.
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔Informal standards defining appropriate age and behavior for
certain life events.
✔✔Wellness Model - ✔✔Includes 6 aspects: physical, intellectual, social, emotional,
vocational and spiritual.
✔✔Medical Model - ✔✔The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured.
✔✔Long Term Care Model - ✔✔Continuous care over longer time.
✔✔Restorative Model - ✔✔Program based on restoring each patients function level.
Based on ADL's assessment made based on the individual capability to perform.
✔✔Metamessages - ✔✔Underlying message of what is being said.
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔Ability or tendency to function independently.
✔✔Spirit of Life - ✔✔The force within the body that gives life energy and power.
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔Calendars, clocks, signs, and lists to help people with
Alzheimer's disease remember who and where they are. Being oriented to people,
location and time.
✔✔Remotivation Therapy - ✔✔Five step group process designed for individuals in a
depressed state or in early stages of dementia. Utilizes real objects, stimulate senses,
and encourages a new
motivation for life, utilizing poems, pictures, animals, hobbies, group interaction.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends
to increase with age.
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems. Reasoning
skills, problem solving skills.
, ✔✔Culture Change - ✔✔An ongoing transformation within long term care communities
which is based on person directed values that restore control to the elder. Culture
change models include the Eden Alternative and the Greenhouse Model.
✔✔Resident Directed Care - ✔✔The model of care which encourages the elder to make
decisions about services and care provided and more importantly that staff honor the
elder's wishes.
✔✔Validation Therapy - ✔✔Founded by Naomi Feil - focuses on accepting the resident
where they are and joining their world.
✔✔Sensory Stimulation - ✔✔Using sensory cues to stimulate the senses in a logical
and sensitive manner to generate some sort of emotional response.
✔✔Quality of Care - ✔✔Providing care which meets individual needs and also attains or
maintains the highest practical physical, mental and psycho-social well being. Includes
maintaining or improving
activities of daily living.
✔✔Quality of Life - ✔✔The perspective of each individual which includes their attitude
and values associated with things (family, friends, interests, spirituality, etc.) that make
an individual happy and satisfied.
✔✔Activities of Daily Living - ✔✔Self-care activities that a person must perform every
day - such as eating, dressing, bathing and using a toilet.
✔✔Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - ✔✔The tasks associated with living
independently such as
shopping, cooking, cleaning the home.
✔✔Functional Ability - ✔✔One's ability to complete basic tasks - functions to get
through one's day.
✔✔Accurate Care - ✔✔This is care that is based on individualized assessments. The
combined assessments of the care team and the interdisciplinary meeting will allow
more integrated
assessment information which will lead to more actuate care.
✔✔Dignity - ✔✔Being treated and cared for with respect to the person's individual
needs and interests.
✔✔Self Determination - ✔✔The Elder's right to choose activities, schedules and health
care activities consistent with their interests, assessment and plans of care. This is the
elders right to decide and make individual decisions.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Cohort Effect - ✔✔The consequences of having been born in a given year and
having grown up during a particular time period with its own unique pressures,
problems, challenges, and opportunities.
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔The idea that the negative effects of patterns of
inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over the life
span.
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔The culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement.
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔A subfield of gerontology with an emphasis on social rather
than physical aspects of aging.
✔✔Functional Age - ✔✔Actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔An overall state of well-being or total health.
,✔✔Palliative Care - ✔✔Care provided to those suffering from chronic and serious
illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six months
to live, palliative care has no time frame.
✔✔Age Grades - ✔✔Permanent age categories in a society through which people pass
during the course of a lifetime.
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔Informal standards defining appropriate age and behavior for
certain life events.
✔✔Wellness Model - ✔✔Includes 6 aspects: physical, intellectual, social, emotional,
vocational and spiritual.
✔✔Medical Model - ✔✔The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured.
✔✔Long Term Care Model - ✔✔Continuous care over longer time.
✔✔Restorative Model - ✔✔Program based on restoring each patients function level.
Based on ADL's assessment made based on the individual capability to perform.
✔✔Metamessages - ✔✔Underlying message of what is being said.
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔Ability or tendency to function independently.
✔✔Spirit of Life - ✔✔The force within the body that gives life energy and power.
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔Calendars, clocks, signs, and lists to help people with
Alzheimer's disease remember who and where they are. Being oriented to people,
location and time.
✔✔Remotivation Therapy - ✔✔Five step group process designed for individuals in a
depressed state or in early stages of dementia. Utilizes real objects, stimulate senses,
and encourages a new
motivation for life, utilizing poems, pictures, animals, hobbies, group interaction.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends
to increase with age.
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems. Reasoning
skills, problem solving skills.
, ✔✔Culture Change - ✔✔An ongoing transformation within long term care communities
which is based on person directed values that restore control to the elder. Culture
change models include the Eden Alternative and the Greenhouse Model.
✔✔Resident Directed Care - ✔✔The model of care which encourages the elder to make
decisions about services and care provided and more importantly that staff honor the
elder's wishes.
✔✔Validation Therapy - ✔✔Founded by Naomi Feil - focuses on accepting the resident
where they are and joining their world.
✔✔Sensory Stimulation - ✔✔Using sensory cues to stimulate the senses in a logical
and sensitive manner to generate some sort of emotional response.
✔✔Quality of Care - ✔✔Providing care which meets individual needs and also attains or
maintains the highest practical physical, mental and psycho-social well being. Includes
maintaining or improving
activities of daily living.
✔✔Quality of Life - ✔✔The perspective of each individual which includes their attitude
and values associated with things (family, friends, interests, spirituality, etc.) that make
an individual happy and satisfied.
✔✔Activities of Daily Living - ✔✔Self-care activities that a person must perform every
day - such as eating, dressing, bathing and using a toilet.
✔✔Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - ✔✔The tasks associated with living
independently such as
shopping, cooking, cleaning the home.
✔✔Functional Ability - ✔✔One's ability to complete basic tasks - functions to get
through one's day.
✔✔Accurate Care - ✔✔This is care that is based on individualized assessments. The
combined assessments of the care team and the interdisciplinary meeting will allow
more integrated
assessment information which will lead to more actuate care.
✔✔Dignity - ✔✔Being treated and cared for with respect to the person's individual
needs and interests.
✔✔Self Determination - ✔✔The Elder's right to choose activities, schedules and health
care activities consistent with their interests, assessment and plans of care. This is the
elders right to decide and make individual decisions.
