GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING 10TH EDITION BY
ELIOPOULOS FINAL PAPER FULL SOLUTION
STUDY GUIDE
◉ Older Adult is classified as.
Answer: 65 years of age and older
◉ Gerontology.
Answer: Study of all aspects of aging and its consequences
◉ Gerontological Nursing.
Answer: specialized nursing with knowledge of illness and health of
aging
◉ Role of general gerontological nurse.
Answer: -direct care providers
-case managers
-nurse leaders
-educators
-patient advocates
-administers
,◉ Role of advanced practice gerontological nurse.
Answer: -health promotion
-disease prevention
-long-term management of chronic conditions
◉ normal changes of aging include.
Answer: - Heart: Muscle thickens and ability to pump diminishes
- Arteries: Stiffen/Harden blood oxygen levels decrease
- Lung: Less elastic, and breathing capacity declines
- Brain: Loses some axons and neurons - some memory loss
- Kidneys: Less efficient
- Bladder: Capacity declines
- Body fat: increases in middle age then declines - settles in
middle/trunk
-max breathing capacity in the lungs decline
-Bone: Density decreases - prone to fracture
-Sight: Ability to focus decrease after age 40, decrease in visual
acuity
- Hearing: Difficulty to hear high frequencies/ background noise
-muscle mass is lost (especially in women who have less baseline
bone mass)
, -muscle mass can decline rapidly without exercise
◉ What generally stays the same when aging?.
Answer: personality (i.e: someone who was crabby as a teen should
still be crabby)
◉ History of Gerontology Focuses.
Answer: Past focus: Study, diagnose, and treat disease
Current focus: Improvement of health holistically
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual well-being
◉ what is the fastest growing segment of the population.
Answer: the older (over 85) group grow at twice the rate of those 65
and over and 4 times faster than the total US population; this group
will triple in size by 2050
◉ Sex differential of aging.
Answer: -women comprise the majority of the older population
worldwide at 55%
-US ratio of people over 65 is 49 men to 100 women
ELIOPOULOS FINAL PAPER FULL SOLUTION
STUDY GUIDE
◉ Older Adult is classified as.
Answer: 65 years of age and older
◉ Gerontology.
Answer: Study of all aspects of aging and its consequences
◉ Gerontological Nursing.
Answer: specialized nursing with knowledge of illness and health of
aging
◉ Role of general gerontological nurse.
Answer: -direct care providers
-case managers
-nurse leaders
-educators
-patient advocates
-administers
,◉ Role of advanced practice gerontological nurse.
Answer: -health promotion
-disease prevention
-long-term management of chronic conditions
◉ normal changes of aging include.
Answer: - Heart: Muscle thickens and ability to pump diminishes
- Arteries: Stiffen/Harden blood oxygen levels decrease
- Lung: Less elastic, and breathing capacity declines
- Brain: Loses some axons and neurons - some memory loss
- Kidneys: Less efficient
- Bladder: Capacity declines
- Body fat: increases in middle age then declines - settles in
middle/trunk
-max breathing capacity in the lungs decline
-Bone: Density decreases - prone to fracture
-Sight: Ability to focus decrease after age 40, decrease in visual
acuity
- Hearing: Difficulty to hear high frequencies/ background noise
-muscle mass is lost (especially in women who have less baseline
bone mass)
, -muscle mass can decline rapidly without exercise
◉ What generally stays the same when aging?.
Answer: personality (i.e: someone who was crabby as a teen should
still be crabby)
◉ History of Gerontology Focuses.
Answer: Past focus: Study, diagnose, and treat disease
Current focus: Improvement of health holistically
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual well-being
◉ what is the fastest growing segment of the population.
Answer: the older (over 85) group grow at twice the rate of those 65
and over and 4 times faster than the total US population; this group
will triple in size by 2050
◉ Sex differential of aging.
Answer: -women comprise the majority of the older population
worldwide at 55%
-US ratio of people over 65 is 49 men to 100 women
