Activity Director Certification Exam questions and answers well illustrated.

Activity Director Certification Exam questions and answers well illustrated. continuum of care - correct answers.Levels of care beginning with care at home, care provided in the community such as adult day centers and institutional care through assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. professional organization - correct ofit organization that works to improve the image, working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular occupations activism - correct answers.The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations CMS - correct answers.Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services federal agency overseeing skilled nursing facilities life course perspective - correct answers.How one experiences a timetable of life events and society looks upon how a person chooses his / her life choices Theories of Aging - correct answers.Various theories as to why we age - two categories - genetic and wear and tear theories Abraham Maslow - correct answers.Hierarchy of needs with self-actualization being the ultimate psychological need Lower level needs=survival/safety Higher level needs=intellectual achievement and finally self-actualization Erik Erikson - correct answers.Known for his 8-stages of life and how one responds to life experiences in those stages would mold personality Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - correct ologist who created the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance cohort effect - correct quences of being born in a particular year or time period and dealing with its own pressures, problems, challenges, and opportunities cumulative disadvantage - correct negative effects of inequality in wealth, status, and opportunity over the life span social clock - correct culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement social gerontology - correct answers.a specialized field of gerontology that examines the social (and sociological) aspects of aging functional age - correct l competence and performance of an older adult, as distinguished from chronological age palliative care - correct answers.Care designed not to treat an illness but to provide physical and emotional comfort to the patient and support and guidance to his or her family. Similar to hospice but with no end of life time frame age grade - correct organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime Wellness Model - correct passes the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and vocational aspects of health medical model - correct concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. metamessage - correct answers.Underlying message of what's being said autonomy - correct endence Spirit of life - correct answers.The force within the body that gives life energy and power remotivation therapy - correct answers.5 step group process for people with Alzheimer's or early stages of dementia. Utilized real objects, stimulates senses, and encourages new motivation for life. Example: poems, pictures, animals, hobbies, group interaction crystallized intelligence - correct accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age fluid intelligence - correct ity to learn new ways of solving problems