Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults’ Chapter 1-8 Test Questions & Answers

Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults’ Chapter 1-8 Test Questions & Answers comprehensive geriatric assessment includes - ANS-medical, psychosocial, cognitive, and functional components high level wellness - ANS-maximizing each person potential, while maintaining balance, and purposeful direction within the persons environment aging - ANS-universal process that begin at birth subjective aging - ANS-age feel or age identity, persons perception of age perceived age - ANS-other people’s estimation of your age chronologic age - ANS-length of time that has passed since birth functional age - ANS-contribution to society and quality of life successful aging 3 components - ANS-1. active engagement in life 2. high cognitive and physical function 3. probability of disease and disability ageism - ANS-prejudices and stereotypes associated with age ageism age applied - ANS-81-98 aging anxiety - ANS-expressed by all ages, anxiety over detrimental effects of older adulthood age attribution - ANS-attribute problems to aging and not to physical treatable conditions anti-aging - ANS-anti aging movement believes aging can be stopped and the life expectancy can be up to 200, focus more on selling products senility - ANS-dementia conditions baby boomers - ANS-born between 1946 and 1964 health characteristics focus - ANS-chronic conditions, levels of functioning poverty in geriatrics - ANS-is declining, vary considerably, socioeconomic facts - ANS-women more likely to live in poverty over 75 more likely to live in poverty vary by race -Hispanic and black highest assisted living facility - ANS-license, regulation, home care suites - ANS-attached to homes or separate, fully functional housing shared housing - ANS-shared by two or more unrelated people, private bedroom cohousing community - ANS-community for seniors the village - ANS-governed by nonprofit organizations, funded through annual membership, congregate housing - ANS-individual apartments, services include meals, laundry, social and recreational activities; in between an institution and independent living - large facility with apartments in a neighborhood health disparities - ANS-significant differences with regards to the rates of disease, prevalence, health disparities, differences in health outcomes among groups American Indians highest rate of what diseases - ANS-diabetes, ,gall stones, lactose intolerance, HepB, TB,, alcoholism health literacy - ANS-major determinant of health outcomes; knowledge of health information needed to make good choices about your health ethnogeriatrics - ANS-component of geriatrics that integrates race, ethnicity, and culture on health and wellbeing of older adults; cross-cultural geriatric care that recognizes cultural differences in response to health and disease cultural competence - ANS-ongoing process in which a nurse strives to work effectively with a culture unconsciously incompetent to culture - ANS-unaware you are lacking cultural knowledge consciously incompetent - ANS-aware of the knowledge gap, consciously competent - ANS-learning about other culture unconsciously competent - ANS-automatically provides cultural care to clients cultural self-assessment - ANS-beliefs that you hold linguistic competence - ANS-respectful and responsive to others language standard for culturally and linguistically appropriate services - ANS-all health care that receive federal funding require no cost 24-hour language assistance health belief system 3 parts - ANS-magico religious paradigm, holistic paradigm, scientific paradigm magico paradigm - ANS-super natural forces dominate, taboo, illness initiated by supernatural, health given by the gods, holistic paradigm - ANS-balance and harmony, we are only a part, whole person viewed, disease caused by imbalance, illness is a natural part of life course continues...