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Gerontology Exam Questions And Answers
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Persons over the age of 60 worldwide will double in the year ____ and will consist of mostly this
sex - Answer✔2050
female
Those that are still alive at 110 years of age - Answer✔Super-Centenarians
Those between the ages of 100 and 109 years - Answer✔Centenarians
Strategies that can and are used to prevent illness before it occurs - Answer✔primary prevention
Early detection of the disease or health problem that has already developed - Answer✔secondary
prevention
Addresses the needs of persons who have their day-to-day wellness challenged, by slowing
disease or limiting complications - Answer✔tertiary prevention
The greatest increase in aging by group percentage is occurring among those: - Answer✔85 and
older
Estimates are by 2020 up to ____% of nurses' time will be spent with older adults - Answer✔75
Origins of gerontological nursing rooted in ____ & began with - Answer✔England
Florence nightingale
Scope and Standards of Practice addresses knowledge and skills for nurses is done by -
Answer✔ANA Gerontological Nursing
Started in 1992 and designed to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults: -
Answer✔Nurses Improving Care of Health System Elders (NICHE)
One in _____ older adults is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of leaving - Answer✔five
1 out of ___ Medicare patients admitted to a skilled nursing facility will be readmitted within 30
days - Answer✔4
_____ are the most prevalent adverse event following discharge from the hospital -
Answer✔Medication discrepancies
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Which was the first formal action the ANA took in relation to gerontological nursing? -
Answer✔Established a national geriatric nursing group
Which gerontological organization had a significant influence on the care of older adults? -
Answer✔john Hartford foundation
Biological aging— aka "____" - Answer✔senescence
A complex genetically regulated interactive process of change in every living organism -
Answer✔Biological aging—"senescence
Changes to cells that decrease ability to replicate attributed to aging, especially the mitochondria
- - Answer✔cellular functioning
What biological theory?
Cellular replication is critical to survival, integrity of genetic code implies new cells have same
form and fx of old ones, organisms are destined to become more complex over time - -
Answer✔cellular function and aging
What biological theory?
Cells have limited replication, aging is result of predictable cellular death, cells and organisms
have predetermined life span known as haflick limit or biological clock, - Answer✔Programmed
aging theory
What biological theory?
Changes at the cellular level are random and unpredidcatble
Wear and tear, oxidative stress, free radical, mutations, telomeres and aging - Answer✔ERROR
THEORIES
What biological theory?
Cellular errors a result of "wearing out" over time from continued use
Associated with internal and external stressors (associated with free radicals)
Causes a progressive decline in cellular function or increased cellular death - Answer✔WEAR
AND TEAR THEORY
Increased ROS reactive oxygen species is referred to as "______" or "________" -
Answer✔oxidative stress
oxidative damage
ROS is increased by external factors such as pollution, cigarrette smoke and internal factors such
as ____ - Answer✔inflammation
ROS is the thinking of what biological theory? - Answer✔Oxidative stress theory
What biological theory?
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Gerontology Exam Questions And Answers
100% Pass.
Persons over the age of 60 worldwide will double in the year ____ and will consist of mostly this
sex - Answer✔2050
female
Those that are still alive at 110 years of age - Answer✔Super-Centenarians
Those between the ages of 100 and 109 years - Answer✔Centenarians
Strategies that can and are used to prevent illness before it occurs - Answer✔primary prevention
Early detection of the disease or health problem that has already developed - Answer✔secondary
prevention
Addresses the needs of persons who have their day-to-day wellness challenged, by slowing
disease or limiting complications - Answer✔tertiary prevention
The greatest increase in aging by group percentage is occurring among those: - Answer✔85 and
older
Estimates are by 2020 up to ____% of nurses' time will be spent with older adults - Answer✔75
Origins of gerontological nursing rooted in ____ & began with - Answer✔England
Florence nightingale
Scope and Standards of Practice addresses knowledge and skills for nurses is done by -
Answer✔ANA Gerontological Nursing
Started in 1992 and designed to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults: -
Answer✔Nurses Improving Care of Health System Elders (NICHE)
One in _____ older adults is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of leaving - Answer✔five
1 out of ___ Medicare patients admitted to a skilled nursing facility will be readmitted within 30
days - Answer✔4
_____ are the most prevalent adverse event following discharge from the hospital -
Answer✔Medication discrepancies
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Which was the first formal action the ANA took in relation to gerontological nursing? -
Answer✔Established a national geriatric nursing group
Which gerontological organization had a significant influence on the care of older adults? -
Answer✔john Hartford foundation
Biological aging— aka "____" - Answer✔senescence
A complex genetically regulated interactive process of change in every living organism -
Answer✔Biological aging—"senescence
Changes to cells that decrease ability to replicate attributed to aging, especially the mitochondria
- - Answer✔cellular functioning
What biological theory?
Cellular replication is critical to survival, integrity of genetic code implies new cells have same
form and fx of old ones, organisms are destined to become more complex over time - -
Answer✔cellular function and aging
What biological theory?
Cells have limited replication, aging is result of predictable cellular death, cells and organisms
have predetermined life span known as haflick limit or biological clock, - Answer✔Programmed
aging theory
What biological theory?
Changes at the cellular level are random and unpredidcatble
Wear and tear, oxidative stress, free radical, mutations, telomeres and aging - Answer✔ERROR
THEORIES
What biological theory?
Cellular errors a result of "wearing out" over time from continued use
Associated with internal and external stressors (associated with free radicals)
Causes a progressive decline in cellular function or increased cellular death - Answer✔WEAR
AND TEAR THEORY
Increased ROS reactive oxygen species is referred to as "______" or "________" -
Answer✔oxidative stress
oxidative damage
ROS is increased by external factors such as pollution, cigarrette smoke and internal factors such
as ____ - Answer✔inflammation
ROS is the thinking of what biological theory? - Answer✔Oxidative stress theory
What biological theory?
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