NCCAP NATIONAL EXAM Questions with
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Life Course Perspective how one experiences a timetable of life events and society looks
upon how a person chooses his/her life course
Life Span maximum number of years a person can survive.
Cohort Effect when a commonly aged group of people in research indirectly affect results
due to their common age-related influence.
Cumulative Disadvantage theory that variation is not a stagnant outcome but rather is a
growing process that unfolds over the life course.
Functional Age the age at which one functions
Wellness opposite of sickness/ individualized/ accomplished at any age.
, Palliative Care care for residents who suffer form a chronic or serious, life threatening
illness --with no time frame
Age Grades a way of combining people together by category using age as a social sorted
piece.
Wisdom the feature of having experience, knowledge, and good decision making (being
wise)
Adaptive Skills everyday skills needed to meet the demands of one's environment (to
take care of self and to interact with others)
Hospice care for residents who suffer form a chronic or serious, life threatening illness--
6 months up to live
Advance Directives a written statement of a person's wishes regarding their medical
treatment, usually includes a living will
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Life Course Perspective how one experiences a timetable of life events and society looks
upon how a person chooses his/her life course
Life Span maximum number of years a person can survive.
Cohort Effect when a commonly aged group of people in research indirectly affect results
due to their common age-related influence.
Cumulative Disadvantage theory that variation is not a stagnant outcome but rather is a
growing process that unfolds over the life course.
Functional Age the age at which one functions
Wellness opposite of sickness/ individualized/ accomplished at any age.
, Palliative Care care for residents who suffer form a chronic or serious, life threatening
illness --with no time frame
Age Grades a way of combining people together by category using age as a social sorted
piece.
Wisdom the feature of having experience, knowledge, and good decision making (being
wise)
Adaptive Skills everyday skills needed to meet the demands of one's environment (to
take care of self and to interact with others)
Hospice care for residents who suffer form a chronic or serious, life threatening illness--
6 months up to live
Advance Directives a written statement of a person's wishes regarding their medical
treatment, usually includes a living will
