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ANSWERS
continuum of care - 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 - ANSWERS💫✔️-nonprofit organization that works to improve the image,
working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular occupations
activism - ANSWERS💫✔️-The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often
including protests and demonstrations
CMS - ANSWERS💫✔️-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services federal agency overseeing skilled
nursing facilities
life course perspective - ANSWERS💫✔️-How one experiences a timetable of life events and society looks
upon how a person chooses his / her life choices
Theories of Aging - ANSWERS💫✔️-Various theories as to why we age - two categories - genetic and wear
and tear theories
Abraham Maslow - 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 - ANSWERS💫✔️-Known for his 8-stages of life and how one responds to life experiences in
those stages would mold personality
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - ANSWERS💫✔️-psychologist who created the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, acceptance
, cohort effect - ANSWERS💫✔️-consequences of being born in a particular year or time period and dealing
with its own pressures, problems, challenges, and opportunities
cumulative disadvantage - ANSWERS💫✔️-the negative effects of inequality in wealth, status, and
opportunity over the life span
social clock - ANSWERS💫✔️-the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement
social gerontology - ANSWERS💫✔️-a specialized field of gerontology that examines the social (and
sociological) aspects of aging
functional age - ANSWERS💫✔️-actual competence and performance of an older adult, as distinguished
from chronological age
palliative care - 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 - ANSWERS💫✔️-an organized category of people based on age; every individual passes
through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime
Wellness Model - ANSWERS💫✔️-encompasses the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and
vocational aspects of health
medical model - ANSWERS💫✔️-the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed,
treated, and, in most cases, cured.
metamessage - ANSWERS💫✔️-Underlying message of what's being said
autonomy - ANSWERS💫✔️-independence
ANSWERS
continuum of care - 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 - ANSWERS💫✔️-nonprofit organization that works to improve the image,
working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular occupations
activism - ANSWERS💫✔️-The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often
including protests and demonstrations
CMS - ANSWERS💫✔️-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services federal agency overseeing skilled
nursing facilities
life course perspective - ANSWERS💫✔️-How one experiences a timetable of life events and society looks
upon how a person chooses his / her life choices
Theories of Aging - ANSWERS💫✔️-Various theories as to why we age - two categories - genetic and wear
and tear theories
Abraham Maslow - 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 - ANSWERS💫✔️-Known for his 8-stages of life and how one responds to life experiences in
those stages would mold personality
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - ANSWERS💫✔️-psychologist who created the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, acceptance
, cohort effect - ANSWERS💫✔️-consequences of being born in a particular year or time period and dealing
with its own pressures, problems, challenges, and opportunities
cumulative disadvantage - ANSWERS💫✔️-the negative effects of inequality in wealth, status, and
opportunity over the life span
social clock - ANSWERS💫✔️-the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement
social gerontology - ANSWERS💫✔️-a specialized field of gerontology that examines the social (and
sociological) aspects of aging
functional age - ANSWERS💫✔️-actual competence and performance of an older adult, as distinguished
from chronological age
palliative care - 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 - ANSWERS💫✔️-an organized category of people based on age; every individual passes
through a series of such categories over his or her lifetime
Wellness Model - ANSWERS💫✔️-encompasses the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and
vocational aspects of health
medical model - ANSWERS💫✔️-the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed,
treated, and, in most cases, cured.
metamessage - ANSWERS💫✔️-Underlying message of what's being said
autonomy - ANSWERS💫✔️-independence
