Older Adults Questions and Answers Correctly
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Geriatrics - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Nursing dealing with care of older adults
Gerontology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Study of all aspects of the aging process and its
consequences
Alzheimer's Disease - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Leading cause of cognitive impairment in
older adults
Developmental Tasks for Older Adults - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -1. adjusting to decreasing
health and physical strength
2. adjusting to retirement and reduced or fixed income
3. adjusting to death of a spouse, children, siblings, friends
4. accepting self as aging person
5. maintaining satisfactory living arrangements
6. redefining relationships with adult children and siblings
7. finding ways to maintain quality of life
Gerontological Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Involves the provision of care that
addresses mutually established goals for an older adult, the family, and health care team
members
, Nursing assessment to ensure age specific approach - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -1.
Interrelation between physical and psychosocial aspects of aging
2. The effects of disease and disability on a patients current functional status
3. Tailoring the assessment to an older person
Tool for overall assessment of older adults - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -SPICES
Sleep disorders
Problems with eating
Incontinence
Confusion
Evidence of fall
Skin breakdown
extrinsic motivation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -a desire to perform a behavior to receive
promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment
intrinsic motivation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -a desire to perform a behavior effectively for
its own sake
Urinary Changes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Loss of bladder tone, urinary definition, UTI
Ways to promote highest level of Function - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Healthy well balanced
diet
Answered Graded 100% Pass
Geriatrics - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Nursing dealing with care of older adults
Gerontology - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Study of all aspects of the aging process and its
consequences
Alzheimer's Disease - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Leading cause of cognitive impairment in
older adults
Developmental Tasks for Older Adults - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -1. adjusting to decreasing
health and physical strength
2. adjusting to retirement and reduced or fixed income
3. adjusting to death of a spouse, children, siblings, friends
4. accepting self as aging person
5. maintaining satisfactory living arrangements
6. redefining relationships with adult children and siblings
7. finding ways to maintain quality of life
Gerontological Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Involves the provision of care that
addresses mutually established goals for an older adult, the family, and health care team
members
, Nursing assessment to ensure age specific approach - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -1.
Interrelation between physical and psychosocial aspects of aging
2. The effects of disease and disability on a patients current functional status
3. Tailoring the assessment to an older person
Tool for overall assessment of older adults - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -SPICES
Sleep disorders
Problems with eating
Incontinence
Confusion
Evidence of fall
Skin breakdown
extrinsic motivation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -a desire to perform a behavior to receive
promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment
intrinsic motivation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -a desire to perform a behavior effectively for
its own sake
Urinary Changes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Loss of bladder tone, urinary definition, UTI
Ways to promote highest level of Function - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Healthy well balanced
diet
