NCCAP NATIONAL EVALUTION EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Activity Theory - ✔✔The Havighurst theory that older people are most happy when
engaged in an activities and social interactions.
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔Erik Erikson's theory that a society or culture has expectations
about when the transitional events like marriage, having kids, or retirement should take
place in life.
✔✔Theories on Aging - ✔✔Three theories attempt to explain the aging process are:
activity, disengagement and continuity.
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔A sub field of gerontology that looks at the social aspects of
aging.
✔✔Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Motivation theory described in a hierarchy of needs which
must be fulfilled at the basic need levels before enlightenment and self-actualization can
be achieved.
✔✔Wellness Model - ✔✔The treatment emphasis is based on the highest wellness of
mind, body and spirit, according to capabilities. Activities help the resident cope with
illness and develop new skills through physical and cognitive activities.
, ✔✔Medical Model - ✔✔Being cured is the ultimate goal and it is an illness centered
approach most often found in hospital short term care, rehab and clinical settings.
Activities are mostly diversionary.
✔✔Long term care model - ✔✔Units separated by illnesses and include Resident
Rights, Quality of Life, and Quality Care for programming that is centered on assessed
needs, abilities, interests, preferences and limitations. Activities provide an
interdisciplinary approach in the different units.
✔✔Restorative Model - ✔✔Nursing assistants are trained to work with the resident's
abilities in doing ADL to attain maximum functional potential. Objectives are measured
and documented, evaluated by licensed nurse, and supervised.
✔✔Metamessages - ✔✔Underlying meaning of what a person says.
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔The ability to do things for oneself, ie... vote, advance directives.
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔The orientation to person, place, time, year, etc...
✔✔Re-motivation therapy - ✔✔A group meeting that establishes acceptance, uses
bounce questions to align with reality, explores the world we live and work in, uses a
poem and appreciates the participants. This is done to help draw out older adults who
are withdrawn and not participating in life.
✔✔Validation Therapy - ✔✔Started by Naomi Feil to reach the non-communicative old
people and join with them emotionally through eye contact, music and rhythm.
✔✔Sensory Stimulation - ✔✔Using the five sense to stimulate the cognitively impaired,
ie... visual, tactile,smell, hearing and taste.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔Using skills, knowledge and information from long term
memory.
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔The ability to use logic, identify patterns and solve new
problems.
✔✔The three categories of programming, - ✔✔maintenance, supportive and
empowerment.
✔✔ Resident Council - ✔✔An advocacy group made up of a formal group of residents
to support all resident concerns, to have access to the administration, to understand
and have access to a formal and written process, and to promote positive activities,
such as committees, election information and speakers.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Activity Theory - ✔✔The Havighurst theory that older people are most happy when
engaged in an activities and social interactions.
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔Erik Erikson's theory that a society or culture has expectations
about when the transitional events like marriage, having kids, or retirement should take
place in life.
✔✔Theories on Aging - ✔✔Three theories attempt to explain the aging process are:
activity, disengagement and continuity.
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔A sub field of gerontology that looks at the social aspects of
aging.
✔✔Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Motivation theory described in a hierarchy of needs which
must be fulfilled at the basic need levels before enlightenment and self-actualization can
be achieved.
✔✔Wellness Model - ✔✔The treatment emphasis is based on the highest wellness of
mind, body and spirit, according to capabilities. Activities help the resident cope with
illness and develop new skills through physical and cognitive activities.
, ✔✔Medical Model - ✔✔Being cured is the ultimate goal and it is an illness centered
approach most often found in hospital short term care, rehab and clinical settings.
Activities are mostly diversionary.
✔✔Long term care model - ✔✔Units separated by illnesses and include Resident
Rights, Quality of Life, and Quality Care for programming that is centered on assessed
needs, abilities, interests, preferences and limitations. Activities provide an
interdisciplinary approach in the different units.
✔✔Restorative Model - ✔✔Nursing assistants are trained to work with the resident's
abilities in doing ADL to attain maximum functional potential. Objectives are measured
and documented, evaluated by licensed nurse, and supervised.
✔✔Metamessages - ✔✔Underlying meaning of what a person says.
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔The ability to do things for oneself, ie... vote, advance directives.
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔The orientation to person, place, time, year, etc...
✔✔Re-motivation therapy - ✔✔A group meeting that establishes acceptance, uses
bounce questions to align with reality, explores the world we live and work in, uses a
poem and appreciates the participants. This is done to help draw out older adults who
are withdrawn and not participating in life.
✔✔Validation Therapy - ✔✔Started by Naomi Feil to reach the non-communicative old
people and join with them emotionally through eye contact, music and rhythm.
✔✔Sensory Stimulation - ✔✔Using the five sense to stimulate the cognitively impaired,
ie... visual, tactile,smell, hearing and taste.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔Using skills, knowledge and information from long term
memory.
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔The ability to use logic, identify patterns and solve new
problems.
✔✔The three categories of programming, - ✔✔maintenance, supportive and
empowerment.
✔✔ Resident Council - ✔✔An advocacy group made up of a formal group of residents
to support all resident concerns, to have access to the administration, to understand
and have access to a formal and written process, and to promote positive activities,
such as committees, election information and speakers.
