GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING EXAM
SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS ACCURATE
ANSWER COLLECTION
●● Older Adult is classified as
Answer: 65 years of age and older
●● Gerontology
Answer: Study of all aspects of aging and its consequences
●● Gerontological Nursing
Answer: specialized nursing with knowledge of illness and health of
aging
●● Role of general gerontological nurse
Answer: -direct care providers
-case managers
-nurse leaders
-educators
-patient advocates
-administers
,●● Role of advanced practice gerontological nurse
Answer: -health promotion
-disease prevention
-long-term management of chronic conditions
●● normal changes of aging include
Answer: - Heart: Muscle thickens and ability to pump diminishes
- Arteries: Stiffen/Harden blood oxygen levels decrease
- Lung: Less elastic, and breathing capacity declines
- Brain: Loses some axons and neurons - some memory loss
- Kidneys: Less efficient
- Bladder: Capacity declines
- Body fat: increases in middle age then declines - settles in middle/trunk
-max breathing capacity in the lungs decline
-Bone: Density decreases - prone to fracture
-Sight: Ability to focus decrease after age 40, decrease in visual acuity
- Hearing: Difficulty to hear high frequencies/ background noise
-muscle mass is lost (especially in women who have less baseline bone
mass)
-muscle mass can decline rapidly without exercise
●● What generally stays the same when aging?
, Answer: personality (i.e: someone who was crabby as a teen should still
be crabby)
●● History of Gerontology Focuses
Answer: Past focus: Study, diagnose, and treat disease
Current focus: Improvement of health holistically
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual well-being
●● what is the fastest growing segment of the population
Answer: the older (over 85) group grow at twice the rate of those 65 and
over and 4 times faster than the total US population; this group will
triple in size by 2050
●● Sex differential of aging
Answer: -women comprise the majority of the older population
worldwide at 55%
-US ratio of people over 65 is 49 men to 100 women
-older women face different socio-economic circumstance (particularly
after the lose of a spouse because they have never worked themselves)
-differences has narrowed over time between separate countries
SCRIPT SOLVED QUESTIONS ACCURATE
ANSWER COLLECTION
●● Older Adult is classified as
Answer: 65 years of age and older
●● Gerontology
Answer: Study of all aspects of aging and its consequences
●● Gerontological Nursing
Answer: specialized nursing with knowledge of illness and health of
aging
●● Role of general gerontological nurse
Answer: -direct care providers
-case managers
-nurse leaders
-educators
-patient advocates
-administers
,●● Role of advanced practice gerontological nurse
Answer: -health promotion
-disease prevention
-long-term management of chronic conditions
●● normal changes of aging include
Answer: - Heart: Muscle thickens and ability to pump diminishes
- Arteries: Stiffen/Harden blood oxygen levels decrease
- Lung: Less elastic, and breathing capacity declines
- Brain: Loses some axons and neurons - some memory loss
- Kidneys: Less efficient
- Bladder: Capacity declines
- Body fat: increases in middle age then declines - settles in middle/trunk
-max breathing capacity in the lungs decline
-Bone: Density decreases - prone to fracture
-Sight: Ability to focus decrease after age 40, decrease in visual acuity
- Hearing: Difficulty to hear high frequencies/ background noise
-muscle mass is lost (especially in women who have less baseline bone
mass)
-muscle mass can decline rapidly without exercise
●● What generally stays the same when aging?
, Answer: personality (i.e: someone who was crabby as a teen should still
be crabby)
●● History of Gerontology Focuses
Answer: Past focus: Study, diagnose, and treat disease
Current focus: Improvement of health holistically
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual well-being
●● what is the fastest growing segment of the population
Answer: the older (over 85) group grow at twice the rate of those 65 and
over and 4 times faster than the total US population; this group will
triple in size by 2050
●● Sex differential of aging
Answer: -women comprise the majority of the older population
worldwide at 55%
-US ratio of people over 65 is 49 men to 100 women
-older women face different socio-economic circumstance (particularly
after the lose of a spouse because they have never worked themselves)
-differences has narrowed over time between separate countries
