Gerontological Nursing
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, Chapter 1 Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience: Health, History and sex
What are the major factors influencing the experience of
aging?
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did A time frame as being old.
Social Security have by setting the retirement age at 65
years?
Aging depends on what? - Decade during which one was born or his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various Women usually live alone after widowhood.
aspects of aging?
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known Centenarians
as?
According to researchers, which characteristic will most Female
centenarians share in the future?
Define health and wellness within the context of aging Health: influenced by culture and age
and chronic illness: Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
care, which statement is true?
What does wellness involve? Wellness involves achieving a balance between one's internal and external
environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical
processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would psychiatric screenings
include all of the following except:
Which describes the older man who is likely to Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends weekly baseball
experience the best overall health and well being? games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which Hispanic Americans
cultural group is predicted to have the fastest growing
older adult population in the US between the years 2010
and 2050?
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an Abraham Maslow
organized framework for understanding individuals and
their concerns was developed by who?
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological Fed a warm breakfast
nursing: A client's basic needs have been met when they
have been what?
Which option refers to the highest level of human self-actualization
functioning according to Maslow?
Exam #1 | Study Guide,
Practice Questions &
Exam Review
|Guaranteed success|
, Chapter 1 Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience: Health, History and sex
What are the major factors influencing the experience of
aging?
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did A time frame as being old.
Social Security have by setting the retirement age at 65
years?
Aging depends on what? - Decade during which one was born or his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various Women usually live alone after widowhood.
aspects of aging?
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known Centenarians
as?
According to researchers, which characteristic will most Female
centenarians share in the future?
Define health and wellness within the context of aging Health: influenced by culture and age
and chronic illness: Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
care, which statement is true?
What does wellness involve? Wellness involves achieving a balance between one's internal and external
environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical
processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would psychiatric screenings
include all of the following except:
Which describes the older man who is likely to Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends weekly baseball
experience the best overall health and well being? games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which Hispanic Americans
cultural group is predicted to have the fastest growing
older adult population in the US between the years 2010
and 2050?
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an Abraham Maslow
organized framework for understanding individuals and
their concerns was developed by who?
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological Fed a warm breakfast
nursing: A client's basic needs have been met when they
have been what?
Which option refers to the highest level of human self-actualization
functioning according to Maslow?
