Basic Geriatric Nursing 8th Edition Williams Test Bank
TEST BANK
FOR BASIC GERIATRIC NURSING, 8TH
EDITION BY PATRICIA A. WILLIAMS
CHAPTERS 1 – 20 LATEST VERSION 2026
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Table of contents
Unit i overview of aging
1. Trends and issues
2. Theories of aging
3. Physiologic changes
unit ii basic skills for gerontologic nursing
4. Health promotion, health maintenance, and home health
considerations
5. Communicating with older adults
6. Maintaining fluid balance and meeting nutritional needs
7. Medications and older adults
8. Health assessment for older adults
9. Meeting safety needs of older adults
unit iii psychosocial care of the elderly
10. Cognition and perception
11. Self-perception and self-concept
12. Roles and relationships
13. Coping and stress
14. Values and beliefs
15. End-of-life care
16. Sexuality and aging
unit iv physical care of the elderly
17. Care of aging ski
18. Elimination
19. Activity and exercise
20. Sleep and rest
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Chapter 01: trends and issues
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Multiple choice
1. What fact explains the shift of health care focus toward the older adult in the late 1960s?
a. Disability was viewed as unavoidable.
b. Complications from disease increased mortality.
c. Older adults’ needs are similar to those of all adults.
d. Preventive health care practices
increased longevity. Ans: d
2. To what age group does the term “aged” apply?
a. 55–64 years of age
b. 65–74 years of age
c. 75–84 years of age
d. 85 and
older ans: c
3. What is the most beneficial legislation that has influenced health care for the older adult?
a. Medicare and medicaid
b. Elimination of the mandatory retirement age
c. The americans with disabilities act
d. The drug benefit
program ans: a
4. What housing option for the older adult offers the privacy of an
apartment with restaurant-style meals and some medical and
personal care services?
a. Government-subsidized housing
b. Long-term care facility
c. Assisted-living center
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d. Group
housing plan
ans: c
5. The 75-year-old man who has been hospitalized following a severe case of
pneumonia is concerned about his mounting hospital bill and asks if his medicare
coverage will pay for his care. What would be the most helpful response by the
nurse?
a. Medicare part c pays 50% of all medical costs for persons older than 65.
b. Medicare part b pays hospital costs and physician fees.
c. Medicare part a pays for inpatient hospital costs.
d. Medicare part d pays 80% of the charges made
by physicians. Ans: c
6. The daughter of a patient who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer asks
which documents are required to allow her to make health care decisions for
her parent. Which response would provide the most accurate information to
the daughter?
a. Advance directives indicate the degree of intervention desired by the patient.
b. A ‘do not resuscitate’ document signed by the patient transfers
authority to the next of kin.
c. A durable power of attorney for health care transfers decision-making
authority for health care to a designated person.
d. A living will transfers authority to
the physician. Ans: c
7. The daughter of a resident in a long-term care facility is frustrated with her 80-
year- old mother’s refusal to eat. Which response would be the most
appropriate?
a. The refusal to eat is an effort to maintain a portion of
independence and self-direction.
b. The refusal to eat is an indication of approaching alzheimer disease.
c. The refusal to eat is an effort to gain attention.
d. The refusal to eat is an indication of the dislike of the
institutional food. Ans: a
8. When do the conditions of a living will go into effect?
a. When the patient declares that desire in writing
b. When a family member indicates the desire for curative therapy to cease
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TEST BANK
FOR BASIC GERIATRIC NURSING, 8TH
EDITION BY PATRICIA A. WILLIAMS
CHAPTERS 1 – 20 LATEST VERSION 2026
PlusBay.Plus
, Basic Geriatric Nursing 8th Edition Williams Test Bank
Table of contents
Unit i overview of aging
1. Trends and issues
2. Theories of aging
3. Physiologic changes
unit ii basic skills for gerontologic nursing
4. Health promotion, health maintenance, and home health
considerations
5. Communicating with older adults
6. Maintaining fluid balance and meeting nutritional needs
7. Medications and older adults
8. Health assessment for older adults
9. Meeting safety needs of older adults
unit iii psychosocial care of the elderly
10. Cognition and perception
11. Self-perception and self-concept
12. Roles and relationships
13. Coping and stress
14. Values and beliefs
15. End-of-life care
16. Sexuality and aging
unit iv physical care of the elderly
17. Care of aging ski
18. Elimination
19. Activity and exercise
20. Sleep and rest
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Basic geriatric nursing 8th edition williams test bank
Chapter 01: trends and issues
Williams: basic geriatric nursing, 8th edition
Multiple choice
1. What fact explains the shift of health care focus toward the older adult in the late 1960s?
a. Disability was viewed as unavoidable.
b. Complications from disease increased mortality.
c. Older adults’ needs are similar to those of all adults.
d. Preventive health care practices
increased longevity. Ans: d
2. To what age group does the term “aged” apply?
a. 55–64 years of age
b. 65–74 years of age
c. 75–84 years of age
d. 85 and
older ans: c
3. What is the most beneficial legislation that has influenced health care for the older adult?
a. Medicare and medicaid
b. Elimination of the mandatory retirement age
c. The americans with disabilities act
d. The drug benefit
program ans: a
4. What housing option for the older adult offers the privacy of an
apartment with restaurant-style meals and some medical and
personal care services?
a. Government-subsidized housing
b. Long-term care facility
c. Assisted-living center
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d. Group
housing plan
ans: c
5. The 75-year-old man who has been hospitalized following a severe case of
pneumonia is concerned about his mounting hospital bill and asks if his medicare
coverage will pay for his care. What would be the most helpful response by the
nurse?
a. Medicare part c pays 50% of all medical costs for persons older than 65.
b. Medicare part b pays hospital costs and physician fees.
c. Medicare part a pays for inpatient hospital costs.
d. Medicare part d pays 80% of the charges made
by physicians. Ans: c
6. The daughter of a patient who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer asks
which documents are required to allow her to make health care decisions for
her parent. Which response would provide the most accurate information to
the daughter?
a. Advance directives indicate the degree of intervention desired by the patient.
b. A ‘do not resuscitate’ document signed by the patient transfers
authority to the next of kin.
c. A durable power of attorney for health care transfers decision-making
authority for health care to a designated person.
d. A living will transfers authority to
the physician. Ans: c
7. The daughter of a resident in a long-term care facility is frustrated with her 80-
year- old mother’s refusal to eat. Which response would be the most
appropriate?
a. The refusal to eat is an effort to maintain a portion of
independence and self-direction.
b. The refusal to eat is an indication of approaching alzheimer disease.
c. The refusal to eat is an effort to gain attention.
d. The refusal to eat is an indication of the dislike of the
institutional food. Ans: a
8. When do the conditions of a living will go into effect?
a. When the patient declares that desire in writing
b. When a family member indicates the desire for curative therapy to cease
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