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Gerontological Nursing Exam #1 Questions and
Answers
Chapter 1 --Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - Ans:✔✔-Health, History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by setting the retirement
age at 65 years? - Ans:✔✔-A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - Ans:✔✔-- Decade during which one was born or his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - Ans:✔✔-Women usually live alone
after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - Ans:✔✔-Centenarians
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According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? - Ans:✔✔-
Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - Ans:✔✔-Health: influenced
by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is true? - Ans:✔✔-Health
is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - Ans:✔✔-Wellness involves achieving a balance between one's internal
and external environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following except: - Ans:✔✔-
psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and well being? -
Ans:✔✔-Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends weekly baseball games with three
friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to have the fastest
growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010 and 2050? - Ans:✔✔-Hispanic
Americans
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Gerontological Nursing Exam #1 Questions and
Answers
Chapter 1 --Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - Ans:✔✔-Health, History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by setting the retirement
age at 65 years? - Ans:✔✔-A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - Ans:✔✔-- Decade during which one was born or his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - Ans:✔✔-Women usually live alone
after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - Ans:✔✔-Centenarians
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, ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? - Ans:✔✔-
Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - Ans:✔✔-Health: influenced
by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is true? - Ans:✔✔-Health
is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - Ans:✔✔-Wellness involves achieving a balance between one's internal
and external environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following except: - Ans:✔✔-
psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and well being? -
Ans:✔✔-Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends weekly baseball games with three
friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to have the fastest
growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010 and 2050? - Ans:✔✔-Hispanic
Americans
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