ACTIVITY DIRECTOR EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Judegement - ✔✔Making a decision or drawing a conclusion from data collected
✔✔Norms and Expectaions - ✔✔Specific standard s or definitions of what is to be found
when conducteding an evaluation or QPAI
✔✔Cohort Effect - ✔✔Consequences of having been born in a given year and having
grown up during a particular time period with it's own unique pressures problems,
challenges and opportunities.
✔✔The Spirit of life - ✔✔The force within the body that gives life energy and power.
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔Independence/ Ability or tendency to function independently
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems
✔✔Medical Model - ✔✔the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders,
the medical model assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis
of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a
psychiatric hospital.
✔✔Metamessages are defined by Dr. Deborah Tannen as: - ✔✔Indirectness of one's
actual intention to communicate/underlying message of what is being said
✔✔Long Term Care Model - ✔✔Continuous care over longer time
✔✔Restorative Model - ✔✔Program based on restoring each patients function level.
Based on ADL's assessment made based on the individual capability to perform
✔✔Re-motivation therapy - ✔✔Five step group process designed for individuals in a
depressed state or in early stages of dementia. Utilizes real objects, stimulate senses,
and encourages a new motivation for life, uitilizing poems, pictures animals, hobbies,
group interaction.
✔✔Culture Change - ✔✔An ongoing transformation within long term care communities
which is based on person directed values that restore control to the elder. Culture
change codes include the Eden Alternative and the Greenhouse Model.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to
increase with age
, ✔✔VALIDATION Therapy - ✔✔Founded by Naomi Feil - focuses on accepting the
resident where they are and joining their world. An empathetic approach
✔✔Person Directed Care - ✔✔The model of care which encourages the person to make
decisions about services and care provided and more importantly that staff honor the
person's wishes.
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔Calendars, clocks, signs, and lists to help people with
Alzheimer's disease remember who and where they are. Being oriented to people,
location and time.
✔✔life Course Prespective - ✔✔How one experiences a timetable of life events, how
society looks upon. Individual life choices
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔A sub field of gerontology with an emphasis on social rather
than physical aspect of aging.
✔✔Palliative Care - ✔✔Care provided to those suffering from chronic and serious
illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six months
to live, palliative care has no time frame.
✔✔Theories of Aging - ✔✔Varies theories as to why we age two categories genetic and
wear and tear theories
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔The idea that the negative effects of patterns of
inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over the life
span of
✔✔Functional age - ✔✔actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age
✔✔Age Grades - ✔✔Permanent age categories in a society through which people pass
during the course of a lifetime
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔Informal standards defining appropriate age and behavior for
certain life events.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔An overall state of well-being or total health
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔The greater number of years a person can live
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Judegement - ✔✔Making a decision or drawing a conclusion from data collected
✔✔Norms and Expectaions - ✔✔Specific standard s or definitions of what is to be found
when conducteding an evaluation or QPAI
✔✔Cohort Effect - ✔✔Consequences of having been born in a given year and having
grown up during a particular time period with it's own unique pressures problems,
challenges and opportunities.
✔✔The Spirit of life - ✔✔The force within the body that gives life energy and power.
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔Independence/ Ability or tendency to function independently
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔Capacity to learn new ways of solving problems
✔✔Medical Model - ✔✔the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders,
the medical model assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis
of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a
psychiatric hospital.
✔✔Metamessages are defined by Dr. Deborah Tannen as: - ✔✔Indirectness of one's
actual intention to communicate/underlying message of what is being said
✔✔Long Term Care Model - ✔✔Continuous care over longer time
✔✔Restorative Model - ✔✔Program based on restoring each patients function level.
Based on ADL's assessment made based on the individual capability to perform
✔✔Re-motivation therapy - ✔✔Five step group process designed for individuals in a
depressed state or in early stages of dementia. Utilizes real objects, stimulate senses,
and encourages a new motivation for life, uitilizing poems, pictures animals, hobbies,
group interaction.
✔✔Culture Change - ✔✔An ongoing transformation within long term care communities
which is based on person directed values that restore control to the elder. Culture
change codes include the Eden Alternative and the Greenhouse Model.
✔✔Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to
increase with age
, ✔✔VALIDATION Therapy - ✔✔Founded by Naomi Feil - focuses on accepting the
resident where they are and joining their world. An empathetic approach
✔✔Person Directed Care - ✔✔The model of care which encourages the person to make
decisions about services and care provided and more importantly that staff honor the
person's wishes.
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔Calendars, clocks, signs, and lists to help people with
Alzheimer's disease remember who and where they are. Being oriented to people,
location and time.
✔✔life Course Prespective - ✔✔How one experiences a timetable of life events, how
society looks upon. Individual life choices
✔✔Social Clock - ✔✔the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage,
parenthood, and retirement
✔✔Social Gerontology - ✔✔A sub field of gerontology with an emphasis on social rather
than physical aspect of aging.
✔✔Palliative Care - ✔✔Care provided to those suffering from chronic and serious
illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six months
to live, palliative care has no time frame.
✔✔Theories of Aging - ✔✔Varies theories as to why we age two categories genetic and
wear and tear theories
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔The idea that the negative effects of patterns of
inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over the life
span of
✔✔Functional age - ✔✔actual competence and performance of an older adult, as
distinguished from chronological age
✔✔Age Grades - ✔✔Permanent age categories in a society through which people pass
during the course of a lifetime
✔✔Age Norms - ✔✔Informal standards defining appropriate age and behavior for
certain life events.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔An overall state of well-being or total health
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔The greater number of years a person can live
