Jersey College - Geriatrics 2025/2026 Questions
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QUESTION: Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner ✓✓Correct Answer: Practice
in various settings and function as a provider of primary care and a case manager.
QUESTION: Gerontologic Nursing ✓✓Correct Answer: nursing specialty concerned with the
care of the older adult
QUESTION: Gerontic Nursing ✓✓Correct Answer: emphasizes nurturing, caring, and
comforting more than treatment of disease.
QUESTION: Reasons for an increase in elderly population. ✓✓Correct Answer: Falling
fertility rates, reduced infant and child mortality, improved sanitation, vaccinations,
increasing survival at older ages.
QUESTION: Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social interaction. ✓✓Correct Answer:
Why is marital status an important determinant of health and well being?
QUESTION: Functional independence with consideration for safety and social interaction.
✓✓Correct Answer: Housing should promote..
QUESTION: Low level of education Impairments ✓✓Correct Answer: This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
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, QUESTION: Social Security ✓✓Correct Answer: The major income source for older
individuals and couples in 2014.
QUESTION: 75% ✓✓Correct Answer: What percentage of all deaths are caused by: heart
disease, lung cancer, COPD, accidents, strokes, alzheimers, diabetes, kidney disease,
flu/pneu, and suicide.
QUESTION: Functional Ability ✓✓Correct Answer: The capacity to carry out the basic self-
care activities that ensure overall health and well-being.
QUESTION: Medicare Part A ✓✓Correct Answer: The part of the Medicare program that
pays for hospitalization, care in a skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice care.
QUESTION: Medicare Part B ✓✓Correct Answer: The part of the Medicare program that
pays for physician services, outpatient hospital services, durable medical equipment, and
other services and supplies.
QUESTION: Medicare Part C ✓✓Correct Answer: Managed care health plans offered to
medicare beneficiaries under the medicare advantage program.
QUESTION: Acute Care Setting ✓✓Correct Answer: Used for acute conditions and do not do
well in preventing functional decline or prompting independence.
QUESTION: Subacute Care Units ✓✓Correct Answer: Aimed at high-risk, hospitalized older
adults, bridge between hospital and home.
QUESTION: Theories ✓✓Correct Answer: Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
Provides a sense of order
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, Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
QUESTION: Human Aging ✓✓Correct Answer: This is influenced by a composite of biologic,
psychologic, social, functional and spiritual factors.
Process that begins at conception.
QUESTION: Biologic Theories of Aging ✓✓Correct Answer: Concerned with answering basic
questions regarding physiologic processes that occur in all living organisms over time.
Deleterious effects leading to decreasing function of the organism, gradually occurring age
related changes that progress over time, intrinsic changes that may affect all members of a
species of chronologic age.
QUESTION: Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory ✓✓Correct Answer: Free radicals are
byproducts of fundamental metabolic activities within the body. Increased by pollutants
(ozone and pesticides.)
Neutralized by enzymatic activity or natural antioxidants, but if they are not neutralized,
they may cause cell damage.
Administration of antioxidants postpones the appearance of diseases such as cardiovascular
disease and cancer and can influence the decline of the immune system and on
degenerative neurologic diseases.
Vitamin E/C can inhibits functions of free radicals.
QUESTION: Cross-Linkage Theory ✓✓Correct Answer: With age, some proteins become
increasingly cross-linked or enmeshed and may impede metabolic processes by obstructing
the passage of nutrients and wastes between the IC and EC compartments.
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and Correct Answers |Already Graded A+
QUESTION: Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner ✓✓Correct Answer: Practice
in various settings and function as a provider of primary care and a case manager.
QUESTION: Gerontologic Nursing ✓✓Correct Answer: nursing specialty concerned with the
care of the older adult
QUESTION: Gerontic Nursing ✓✓Correct Answer: emphasizes nurturing, caring, and
comforting more than treatment of disease.
QUESTION: Reasons for an increase in elderly population. ✓✓Correct Answer: Falling
fertility rates, reduced infant and child mortality, improved sanitation, vaccinations,
increasing survival at older ages.
QUESTION: Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social interaction. ✓✓Correct Answer:
Why is marital status an important determinant of health and well being?
QUESTION: Functional independence with consideration for safety and social interaction.
✓✓Correct Answer: Housing should promote..
QUESTION: Low level of education Impairments ✓✓Correct Answer: This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
1|Page
, QUESTION: Social Security ✓✓Correct Answer: The major income source for older
individuals and couples in 2014.
QUESTION: 75% ✓✓Correct Answer: What percentage of all deaths are caused by: heart
disease, lung cancer, COPD, accidents, strokes, alzheimers, diabetes, kidney disease,
flu/pneu, and suicide.
QUESTION: Functional Ability ✓✓Correct Answer: The capacity to carry out the basic self-
care activities that ensure overall health and well-being.
QUESTION: Medicare Part A ✓✓Correct Answer: The part of the Medicare program that
pays for hospitalization, care in a skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice care.
QUESTION: Medicare Part B ✓✓Correct Answer: The part of the Medicare program that
pays for physician services, outpatient hospital services, durable medical equipment, and
other services and supplies.
QUESTION: Medicare Part C ✓✓Correct Answer: Managed care health plans offered to
medicare beneficiaries under the medicare advantage program.
QUESTION: Acute Care Setting ✓✓Correct Answer: Used for acute conditions and do not do
well in preventing functional decline or prompting independence.
QUESTION: Subacute Care Units ✓✓Correct Answer: Aimed at high-risk, hospitalized older
adults, bridge between hospital and home.
QUESTION: Theories ✓✓Correct Answer: Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
Provides a sense of order
2|Page
, Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
QUESTION: Human Aging ✓✓Correct Answer: This is influenced by a composite of biologic,
psychologic, social, functional and spiritual factors.
Process that begins at conception.
QUESTION: Biologic Theories of Aging ✓✓Correct Answer: Concerned with answering basic
questions regarding physiologic processes that occur in all living organisms over time.
Deleterious effects leading to decreasing function of the organism, gradually occurring age
related changes that progress over time, intrinsic changes that may affect all members of a
species of chronologic age.
QUESTION: Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory ✓✓Correct Answer: Free radicals are
byproducts of fundamental metabolic activities within the body. Increased by pollutants
(ozone and pesticides.)
Neutralized by enzymatic activity or natural antioxidants, but if they are not neutralized,
they may cause cell damage.
Administration of antioxidants postpones the appearance of diseases such as cardiovascular
disease and cancer and can influence the decline of the immune system and on
degenerative neurologic diseases.
Vitamin E/C can inhibits functions of free radicals.
QUESTION: Cross-Linkage Theory ✓✓Correct Answer: With age, some proteins become
increasingly cross-linked or enmeshed and may impede metabolic processes by obstructing
the passage of nutrients and wastes between the IC and EC compartments.
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