Gero Exam 1 questions and answers
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Population health status considerations are based on what?
A. Life expectancy
B. Morbidity
C. Mortality
D. All the above - correct answer ✔✔D all the above
Gerontological nurses can allow the elderly population to do what?
A. Thrive and grow old with the best life possible instead of merely surviving
B. Survive by living day to day
C. Step back from society and self-reflect
D. Find nursing home placement - correct answer ✔✔A Thrive and grow old with the best life
possible instead of merely surviving
Wellness based models ______?
A. Increase limitations and minimize strengths
B. Facilitate adaptation, encourage growth, minimize limitations, and maximize strengths
C. Decrease adaptation, encourage growth, maximize limitations, and increase strengths
D. Discourage growth, maximize limitations, and increase strengths. - correct answer ✔✔B
Facilitate adaptation, encourage growth, minimize limitations, and maximize strengths
The term geriatrics was coined to do what?
A. Name the population 65 and older
,B. To recognize that medical care of persons in later life differed from other groups in the
population.
C. To recognize that medical care of persons later in life is the same as other groups in the
population.
D. To have a name to describe someone who is no longer an adult. - correct answer ✔✔B To
recognize that medical care of persons in later life differed from other groups in the population.
The textbook published with a focus that the "old" must be reversed, eradicated, or delayed
was published when?
A. 1916
B. 1912
C. 1914
D. 2020 - correct answer ✔✔1914
From a functional prospective old is ______?
A. When the person has to use a shower chair to shower
B. The person doesn't know how to drive
C. The person is no longer able to perform usual activities
The person can perform activities as usual - correct answer ✔✔C The person is no longer able
to perform usual activities
Persons over the age of 60 worldwide are expected to _____ in 2050?
A. Increase by 40%
B. Increase by 50%
C. Increase by 20%
D. Increase by 33% - correct answer ✔✔B Increase by 50%
Super- Centenarians have survived pandemics and outbreaks and are still alive at what age?
, A. 110
B. 112
C. 90
D. 80 - correct answer ✔✔A 110
The age group that is rising rapidly that ranges from 100-109
A. Baby boomers
B. Centenarians
C. Nonagenarian
D. Septuagenarians - correct answer ✔✔B centenarians
The "baby boomers" when compared to the other groups discussed in this chapter have what?
A. Better access to medication and treatment.
B. Less access to specialty clinics.
C. Decreased access to acute care.
Increased access to free healthcare - correct answer ✔✔A. Better access to medication and tx
What is the number one cause of noncommunicable death worldwide?
A. Lower respiratory disease.
B. Diabetes
C. Ischemic heart disease/stroke
D. COPD - correct answer ✔✔C. ischemic heart disease/stroke
Octogenarians include people aged?
A. 70-79
B. 80-89
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Population health status considerations are based on what?
A. Life expectancy
B. Morbidity
C. Mortality
D. All the above - correct answer ✔✔D all the above
Gerontological nurses can allow the elderly population to do what?
A. Thrive and grow old with the best life possible instead of merely surviving
B. Survive by living day to day
C. Step back from society and self-reflect
D. Find nursing home placement - correct answer ✔✔A Thrive and grow old with the best life
possible instead of merely surviving
Wellness based models ______?
A. Increase limitations and minimize strengths
B. Facilitate adaptation, encourage growth, minimize limitations, and maximize strengths
C. Decrease adaptation, encourage growth, maximize limitations, and increase strengths
D. Discourage growth, maximize limitations, and increase strengths. - correct answer ✔✔B
Facilitate adaptation, encourage growth, minimize limitations, and maximize strengths
The term geriatrics was coined to do what?
A. Name the population 65 and older
,B. To recognize that medical care of persons in later life differed from other groups in the
population.
C. To recognize that medical care of persons later in life is the same as other groups in the
population.
D. To have a name to describe someone who is no longer an adult. - correct answer ✔✔B To
recognize that medical care of persons in later life differed from other groups in the population.
The textbook published with a focus that the "old" must be reversed, eradicated, or delayed
was published when?
A. 1916
B. 1912
C. 1914
D. 2020 - correct answer ✔✔1914
From a functional prospective old is ______?
A. When the person has to use a shower chair to shower
B. The person doesn't know how to drive
C. The person is no longer able to perform usual activities
The person can perform activities as usual - correct answer ✔✔C The person is no longer able
to perform usual activities
Persons over the age of 60 worldwide are expected to _____ in 2050?
A. Increase by 40%
B. Increase by 50%
C. Increase by 20%
D. Increase by 33% - correct answer ✔✔B Increase by 50%
Super- Centenarians have survived pandemics and outbreaks and are still alive at what age?
, A. 110
B. 112
C. 90
D. 80 - correct answer ✔✔A 110
The age group that is rising rapidly that ranges from 100-109
A. Baby boomers
B. Centenarians
C. Nonagenarian
D. Septuagenarians - correct answer ✔✔B centenarians
The "baby boomers" when compared to the other groups discussed in this chapter have what?
A. Better access to medication and treatment.
B. Less access to specialty clinics.
C. Decreased access to acute care.
Increased access to free healthcare - correct answer ✔✔A. Better access to medication and tx
What is the number one cause of noncommunicable death worldwide?
A. Lower respiratory disease.
B. Diabetes
C. Ischemic heart disease/stroke
D. COPD - correct answer ✔✔C. ischemic heart disease/stroke
Octogenarians include people aged?
A. 70-79
B. 80-89
