Activity Director Certification Exam Questions AND Correct
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Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of needs with self-
actualization being the ultimate psychological need
Lower level needs=survival/safety
Higher level needs=intellectual achievement and finally self-
actualization
Accommodation of needs - ✔✔Individuals needs and interests
need to be taken into account in order to maintain
independent functioning, dignity, well-being and self-
determination. This is the care giver and community adapting
to the elders needs rather than forcing elder to adapt to care
community schedules.
activism - ✔✔The practice of pursuing political or other goals
through vigorous action, often including protests and
demonstrations
ADLs - ✔✔Self-care activities a person performs daily to
remain independent and function in society
, age grade - ✔✔an organized category of people based on age;
every individual passes through a series of such categories
over his or her lifetime
autonomy - ✔✔independence
Beneficence vs. Maleficence - ✔✔Beneficence is to do good.
Maleficence is to cause harm. Preventing harm is basis for bio-
ethics.
Capital expense - ✔✔Items that go beyond operational
expenses and are used over a period of time
Care Plan Meeting - ✔✔When the team gets together to
discuss the written care plan. Families and residents are
sometimes invited. Conducted upon admission and every 90
days.
Cats - ✔✔Care area triggers are Resident responses for one or
a combo of MDS elements. The triggers ID residents who have
or at risk of developing specific functional problems and
require further assessment
Answers
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔Hierarchy of needs with self-
actualization being the ultimate psychological need
Lower level needs=survival/safety
Higher level needs=intellectual achievement and finally self-
actualization
Accommodation of needs - ✔✔Individuals needs and interests
need to be taken into account in order to maintain
independent functioning, dignity, well-being and self-
determination. This is the care giver and community adapting
to the elders needs rather than forcing elder to adapt to care
community schedules.
activism - ✔✔The practice of pursuing political or other goals
through vigorous action, often including protests and
demonstrations
ADLs - ✔✔Self-care activities a person performs daily to
remain independent and function in society
, age grade - ✔✔an organized category of people based on age;
every individual passes through a series of such categories
over his or her lifetime
autonomy - ✔✔independence
Beneficence vs. Maleficence - ✔✔Beneficence is to do good.
Maleficence is to cause harm. Preventing harm is basis for bio-
ethics.
Capital expense - ✔✔Items that go beyond operational
expenses and are used over a period of time
Care Plan Meeting - ✔✔When the team gets together to
discuss the written care plan. Families and residents are
sometimes invited. Conducted upon admission and every 90
days.
Cats - ✔✔Care area triggers are Resident responses for one or
a combo of MDS elements. The triggers ID residents who have
or at risk of developing specific functional problems and
require further assessment
