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theory that is based on a combination of research or aging and health and the author's four decades of
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providing nursing care for older adults. it also draws on theories that emphasize concepts related to
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wellness, health promotion, and holistic nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔functional consequences theory
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are the observable effects of actions, risk factors, and age-related changes that influence the quality of life
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or day-to-day activities of older adults - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔functional consequences
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when they facilitate the highest level of performance and the least amount of dependency; can result from
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automatic actions or purposeful interventions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔positive functional consequence
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when they interfere with a person's level of function or quality of life or increase a person's dependency;
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typically occur because of a combination of age-related changes and risk factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
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negative functional consequences
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the inherent physiological processes that increase the vulnerability of older people to the detrimental
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effects of risk factors; not limited to physiologic aspects but include potential for increased cognitive,
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emotional, and spiritual development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔age-related changes
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the conditions that are likely to occur in older adults and have a significant detrimental effect on their health
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and functioning; they are cumulative and progressive (smoking, obesity) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔risk
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factors
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applies specifically to older adults, because the holistic approach of the theory views each older adults as a
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complex and unique individual whose functioning and well-being is influenced by many internal and
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external factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔person theory
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draws on nursing theories, including those of long-established theorists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔nursing
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theory
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ability of older adults to function at their highest capacity despite the presence of age-related changes and
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risk factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔health and wellness theory
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a broad concept that includes all aspects of the setting in which the care is provided; for dependent older
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adults, this also includes their caregivers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔environment theory
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the human body eventually stops working because of accumulated effects of what and tear - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔wear and tear theory
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ionized oxygen molecules that are highly unstable because they have an extra electron. they are waste
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products of metabolism and they can damage cells. healthy bodies have protective mechanisms that can
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remove and repair damaged cells; however these mechanism become less effective with increased age and
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cellular damage becomes cumulative - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔free radical theory
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is an age-related decline of the immune system. increases susceptibility of older people to diseases. the
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immune system may even attack healthy cells - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔immunosenscence
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they attempt to explain the interrelationship between older adults and the societies and environments in
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which they live - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔what is the aim of sociocultural theories of aging
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older people remain socially and psychologically fit if they remain actively engaged in life - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔activity theory
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considers the interrelationships between personal competence and the environment - CORRECT ANSWER
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✔✔person-environment fit theory b b




what is the aim of psychological theories of aging - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔they focus on the psychological
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factors that affect health, longevity, and quality of life
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what variable do psychological theories of aging address - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔learning, memory,
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emotions, intelligence, and motivation
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address old age within the context of the life cycle. a current focus of life-course theories is on "human
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potential" stages - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔life-course theories
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describes five specific stages through which a person progresses in accomplishing behavior changes -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the stages of change model
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person is unaware of the problem, is in denial of the need for change, or is resistant to change (stages of
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change) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pre contemplation
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intention to change in the foreseeable future, based on some acknowledgement of the negative
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consequences of current behaviors and positive consequences of different behaviors (stages of change) -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔contemplation
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