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Activity of Daily Living - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Tasks that are necessary for self-
care, such as eating/feeding, bathing, grooming, toileting, walking, and
transferring.
Advanced Activities of Daily Living - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Activities that an older
adult performs as a family member or as a member of society or
community, including occupational and recreational activities.
Caregiver Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment of the health and
well-being of an individual's caregiver.
Caregiver Burden - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The perceived strain by the person who
cares for an older, chronically ill, or disabled person.
,Domains of Cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Domains included in mental status
assessments, such as attention, memory, orientation, language,
visuospatial skills, and higher cognitive functions.
Environment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment of an indovodual's home
environment and community systems, including hazards at home.
Functional Ability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The ability of a person to perform
activities necessary to live in modern society; may include driving, using the
telephone, or performing personal tasks such as baking or toileting.
Functional Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A systematic assessment that
includes assessment of an individual's activities of daily living, instrumental
activities of daily living, and mobility.
Functional Status - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A person's actual performance of
activities and tasks associated with current life roles.
Geriatric Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Multidimensional assessment;
physical examination and assessments of mental status, functional status,
social and economical status, pain, and physical environment safety.
,Home Care - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Supportive services provided in the home:
skilled nursing care, primary care, therapy (physical, occupational, speech),
social work, nutrition, case management, ADL assistance, durable medical
equipment.
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Functional abilities
necessary for independent community living, such as, shopping, meal
preparation, housekeeping, laundry, managing finances, taking
medications, and using transportation.
Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An
instrument used to measure physical function in older adults and the
chronically ill.
Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An
instrument used to measure an individual's ability to perform instrumental
activities of daily living; may assist in assessing one's ability to live
independently.
Physical Performance Measures - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Tests that measure
balance, gait, motor coordination, and endurance.
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, Social Domain - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The domain that focuses on an individual's
relationships within family, social groups, and the community.
Social Networks - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Informal supports accessed by older
adults, such as family members and close friends, neighbors, church
societies, neighborhood groups, and senior centers.
Spiritual Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment of the individual's
spiritual health.
An appropriate tool to assess an individual's instrumental activities of daily
living is a tool by: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a. Katz
b. Lawton *CORRECT ANSWER*
c. Tinetti
d. Norbeck
Which statement is true regarding an individual's functional status? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔a. Functional status refers to one's ability to care for another
person.
b. An older adult's functional status is usually static over time.