Activity Director Certification Exam
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continuum of care - ✔✔Levels of care beginning with care at home, care provided in
the community such as adult day centers and institutional care through assisted living
and skilled nursing facilities.
professional organization - ✔✔nonprofit organization that works to improve the image,
working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular occupations
activism - ✔✔The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action,
often including protests and demonstrations
CMS - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services federal agency overseeing
skilled nursing facilities
life course perspective - ✔✔How one experiences a timetable of life events and society
looks upon how a person chooses his / her life choices
Theories of Aging - ✔✔Various theories as to why we age - two categories - genetic and
wear and tear theories
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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
Erik Erikson - ✔✔Known for his 8-stages of life and how one responds to life
experiences in those stages would mold personality
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - ✔✔psychologist who created the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, acceptance
cohort effect - ✔✔consequences of being born in a particular year or time period and
dealing with its own pressures, problems, challenges, and opportunities
cumulative disadvantage - ✔✔the negative effects of inequality in wealth, status, and
opportunity over the life span
social clock - ✔✔the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement
social gerontology - ✔✔a specialized field of gerontology that examines the social (and
sociological) aspects of aging
functional age - ✔✔actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
continuum of care - ✔✔Levels of care beginning with care at home, care provided in
the community such as adult day centers and institutional care through assisted living
and skilled nursing facilities.
professional organization - ✔✔nonprofit organization that works to improve the image,
working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular occupations
activism - ✔✔The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action,
often including protests and demonstrations
CMS - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services federal agency overseeing
skilled nursing facilities
life course perspective - ✔✔How one experiences a timetable of life events and society
looks upon how a person chooses his / her life choices
Theories of Aging - ✔✔Various theories as to why we age - two categories - genetic and
wear and tear theories
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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
Erik Erikson - ✔✔Known for his 8-stages of life and how one responds to life
experiences in those stages would mold personality
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - ✔✔psychologist who created the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger,
bargaining, depression, acceptance
cohort effect - ✔✔consequences of being born in a particular year or time period and
dealing with its own pressures, problems, challenges, and opportunities
cumulative disadvantage - ✔✔the negative effects of inequality in wealth, status, and
opportunity over the life span
social clock - ✔✔the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement
social gerontology - ✔✔a specialized field of gerontology that examines the social (and
sociological) aspects of aging
functional age - ✔✔actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age
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