Gerontological Nursing
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Wellness A state of health which is optimal for the individual person at any point in time.
Centenarian A person who is at least 100 years old.
Cohort Group where members share some common experience.
Holistic Health Care Considers the whole person and the interaction with and between the parts.
Apraxia Impairment in the ability to manipulate objects or perform purposeful acts,
including speech.
Ethnicity Belonging to or deriving from the cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic
traditions of a people or country.
Ethnocentrism Belief in inherent superiority of one's group and culture accompanied by
devaluation of other groups or cultures.
Folk Medicine Curing methods originating among the people of a culture and transmitted
though the people of that culture.
Interpreter A person who explains the meaning of what is spoken in one language into
another.
Stereotype Belief applied to a group of persons based on actual or assumed knowledge of
an individual member of the group.
Glomerular Filtration Rate Rate at which kidneys are able to filter blood.
Kyphosis C-Shaped curvature of cervical vertebrae.
Presbycusis Progressive, bilaterally symmetrical perceptive hearing loss occuring with age,
usually of high frequency sounds.
Test 1 Terms | Study
Guide, Key Terms & Exam
Review
|Guaranteed success|
, Terms in this set (60)
Wellness A state of health which is optimal for the individual person at any point in time.
Centenarian A person who is at least 100 years old.
Cohort Group where members share some common experience.
Holistic Health Care Considers the whole person and the interaction with and between the parts.
Apraxia Impairment in the ability to manipulate objects or perform purposeful acts,
including speech.
Ethnicity Belonging to or deriving from the cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic
traditions of a people or country.
Ethnocentrism Belief in inherent superiority of one's group and culture accompanied by
devaluation of other groups or cultures.
Folk Medicine Curing methods originating among the people of a culture and transmitted
though the people of that culture.
Interpreter A person who explains the meaning of what is spoken in one language into
another.
Stereotype Belief applied to a group of persons based on actual or assumed knowledge of
an individual member of the group.
Glomerular Filtration Rate Rate at which kidneys are able to filter blood.
Kyphosis C-Shaped curvature of cervical vertebrae.
Presbycusis Progressive, bilaterally symmetrical perceptive hearing loss occuring with age,
usually of high frequency sounds.
