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1. What is gerontology? the study of the aging/aged
2. What are geriatrics? the medical care of older adults
3. What is gerontological nurses advocating for the holistic care of older adults 65+
nursing?
4. What are geriatric syn- common health conditions in older adults that are unrelated
to a specific
dromes? pathology-
delirium, falls, incontinence, pressure ulcers, functional decline, dizziness,
urinary incontinence
5. What is mild middle state between normal aging and dementia, acquired cognitive
cognitive deficits, doesn’t significantly interfere with daily functioning
impairment?
6. What are genomics? ID of gene sequences in DNA
7. What are genetics? study of heredity and the transition of certain genes through
generations
8. What is the SPICES an assessment tool for older adults to prevent health alterations
as- sesment tool?
Sleep Disorders
Problems with eating of
feeding Incontinence
Confusion
Evidence of Falls
Skin Breakdown
9. What is dementia? a progressive, degenerative brain dysfunction that interferes with
,Gero Final Exam questions well answered graded
A+ updated to pass
a persons
daily functioning; problems with memory, concentration, language
skills, visuospatial skills, reasoning
10. no
,Gero Final Exam questions well answered graded
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Is dementia a normal
part of the
gaining process?
11. What are behav-occur in the middle stages of dementia;
ioral and
psychologi- cal verbal and physical aggression, verbal and physical agitation,
symptoms of de- wandering, sexual disinhibition and visual hallucinations, hoarding,
mentia? shadowing, anx- iety and depression, delusions and paranoia
Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, Parkinson’s dementia,
12. What are the lewy body dementia, frontotemporal lobe dementia
different types of
dementia?
13. What is alzheimers de- most common type of dementia; chronic, progressive,
degenerative brain
mentia? disease that first affects memory, episodic memory first to be
effected
14. What is episodic mem- information about events we have personally experienced
ory?
15. What is vascular either occurs acutely following a CVA or more gradually through
de- mentia? chronic atherosclerotic plaque formation in the brain
16. What are risk same as risk factors for atherosclerosis plaque formation; smoking,
factors for HTN, HLDc
vascular demen-
tia?
17. What is mixed demen- combo of 2+ types of dementia
tia?
, Gero Final Exam questions well answered graded
A+ updated to pass
18. What is Parkinson’s de- characterized by shaking and motor symptoms and cognitive
symptoms/
mentia dementia in later stages; they do respond to dopaminergic meds
19. What is lewy body
de- mentia?
A+ updated to pass
1. What is gerontology? the study of the aging/aged
2. What are geriatrics? the medical care of older adults
3. What is gerontological nurses advocating for the holistic care of older adults 65+
nursing?
4. What are geriatric syn- common health conditions in older adults that are unrelated
to a specific
dromes? pathology-
delirium, falls, incontinence, pressure ulcers, functional decline, dizziness,
urinary incontinence
5. What is mild middle state between normal aging and dementia, acquired cognitive
cognitive deficits, doesn’t significantly interfere with daily functioning
impairment?
6. What are genomics? ID of gene sequences in DNA
7. What are genetics? study of heredity and the transition of certain genes through
generations
8. What is the SPICES an assessment tool for older adults to prevent health alterations
as- sesment tool?
Sleep Disorders
Problems with eating of
feeding Incontinence
Confusion
Evidence of Falls
Skin Breakdown
9. What is dementia? a progressive, degenerative brain dysfunction that interferes with
,Gero Final Exam questions well answered graded
A+ updated to pass
a persons
daily functioning; problems with memory, concentration, language
skills, visuospatial skills, reasoning
10. no
,Gero Final Exam questions well answered graded
A+ updated to pass
Is dementia a normal
part of the
gaining process?
11. What are behav-occur in the middle stages of dementia;
ioral and
psychologi- cal verbal and physical aggression, verbal and physical agitation,
symptoms of de- wandering, sexual disinhibition and visual hallucinations, hoarding,
mentia? shadowing, anx- iety and depression, delusions and paranoia
Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, mixed dementia, Parkinson’s dementia,
12. What are the lewy body dementia, frontotemporal lobe dementia
different types of
dementia?
13. What is alzheimers de- most common type of dementia; chronic, progressive,
degenerative brain
mentia? disease that first affects memory, episodic memory first to be
effected
14. What is episodic mem- information about events we have personally experienced
ory?
15. What is vascular either occurs acutely following a CVA or more gradually through
de- mentia? chronic atherosclerotic plaque formation in the brain
16. What are risk same as risk factors for atherosclerosis plaque formation; smoking,
factors for HTN, HLDc
vascular demen-
tia?
17. What is mixed demen- combo of 2+ types of dementia
tia?
, Gero Final Exam questions well answered graded
A+ updated to pass
18. What is Parkinson’s de- characterized by shaking and motor symptoms and cognitive
symptoms/
mentia dementia in later stages; they do respond to dopaminergic meds
19. What is lewy body
de- mentia?
