Chapter 5: Settings of Care
1. Geriatric assessments can be challenging for the health-care provider due to delay of
recognition and/or reporting of symptoms by the patient. Which of the following best describes what is
used by health-care providers to address this differential?
1. Clinical decision-making tools.
2. When symptoms were noticed.
3. Change in function and impact of symptoms.
4. Symptoms from comorbidities. - 1. Answer: 3
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1.
Using clinical decision-making tools can be complicated because of different factors, such as patient
denial of symptoms and their occurrences.
2.
Using the time symptoms were noticed as the basis for assessment cannot be deemed an effective tool
due to inaccuracies regarding the report of when symptoms first occurred.
3.
Change in function as a measure of the impact of a symptom on the patient is an effective means of
sorting out the differential.
4.
Comorbidities can result in a delayed or atypical presentation.
2. Which of the following terms refers to conditions that have multiple underlying factors
and may involve multiple organs?
1. Multifaceted syndrome
2. Aging syndrome
3. CFM syndrome
4. Geriatric syndrome - 2. Answer: 4
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1.
Multifaceted syndrome is not the correct term, although conditions reflect the many contributing
aspects to health care.
2.
Aging syndrome is not the correct term, although aging may be a contributing factor to the condition.
, 3.
CFM syndrome is not the correct term, although conditions may have cognitive, functional, and
mobility impairments.
4.
1. Geriatric assessments can be challenging for the health-care provider due to delay of
recognition and/or reporting of symptoms by the patient. Which of the following best describes what is
used by health-care providers to address this differential?
1. Clinical decision-making tools.
2. When symptoms were noticed.
3. Change in function and impact of symptoms.
4. Symptoms from comorbidities. - 1. Answer: 3
Page: 34
Feedback
1.
Using clinical decision-making tools can be complicated because of different factors, such as patient
denial of symptoms and their occurrences.
2.
Using the time symptoms were noticed as the basis for assessment cannot be deemed an effective tool
due to inaccuracies regarding the report of when symptoms first occurred.
3.
Change in function as a measure of the impact of a symptom on the patient is an effective means of
sorting out the differential.
4.
Comorbidities can result in a delayed or atypical presentation.
2. Which of the following terms refers to conditions that have multiple underlying factors
and may involve multiple organs?
1. Multifaceted syndrome
2. Aging syndrome
3. CFM syndrome
4. Geriatric syndrome - 2. Answer: 4
Page: 34
Feedback
1.
Multifaceted syndrome is not the correct term, although conditions reflect the many contributing
aspects to health care.
2.
Aging syndrome is not the correct term, although aging may be a contributing factor to the condition.
, 3.
CFM syndrome is not the correct term, although conditions may have cognitive, functional, and
mobility impairments.
4.
