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CARE OF OLDER ADULTS EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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CARE OF OLDER ADULTS EXAM 1QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Aging - Answer-Process involves physical, psychological and social changes
-often influenced by attitudes, experience, culture and values
Gerontology - Answer-Study of older persons
Geriatrics - Answer-Medical care of older persons
Gerontological Nursing - Answer-Specialty practice that focuses on unique needs of
older adults and their families
-nurses advocating for health of older adults at all levels of prevention
6 Standards of Nursing - Answer-Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification,
planning, implementing, and evaluation
Core Competencies - Answer-Provide a foundation of added knowledge and skill
needed for nurse to implement in daily practice
Young Old - Answer-65-74
Middle Old - Answer-75-84
Old-Old - Answer-85 and up
Nonagenarians - Answer-90's
Centenarians - Answer-100 and up
Baby Boomers - Answer-1946-1964
Ageism - Answer-stereotyping and discriminating against persons because they're older
Blue Zones - Answer-"Hot spots" in the world where the highest percentage of pop live
astoundingly longer, richer lives
-Sardinia, Italy
-Okinawa, Japan
-Nicoya, Costa Rica
-Ikaria, Greece
-Loma Linda, California
purpose, attitude, nutrition, lifestyle, environment
, Stochastic (error) Theories - Answer-Aging results from an accumulation of errors in the
synthesis of cellular DNA and RNA
Wear-and-Tear
1980's - Answer-Wearing out, damage to cells over time
Cross-Linkage/Connective Tissue
1940's - Answer-Stiffening of proteins in the body (cant move)- arthritis or hardening of
coranary arteries (atherosclerosis)
~dec activity, change how we use carbs, nutrients, etc.
Free Radicals
1950's - Answer-Random damage from free radicals; single unpaired electrons (want to
reduce)
-more=faster aging- exposure to carcinogens
~antioxidants help prevent free radicals
Telomeres and Aging - Answer-Caps continue to get shorter as division occurs
-cell death=death
(stress shortens telomeres faster)
Nonstochastic Theories - Answer-Process that is programmed and predetermined
Programmed Aging Theory - Answer-Genetically determined life span and life process;
cells divide until they cant
-body knows (g-parents lived till 90's, so will I)
Gene/"Biological Clock" Theory - Answer-Biologists are attempting to locate genes that
govern cellular mortality
-find what genes that will tell you how long you're gonna live & cells continue to
reproduce
Immunity Theory
1970's - Answer-Senescence(don't work) if the immune cells from damage from free
radicals- faulty immune system
-death will be b/c body cant fight disease/infection off (immune system declines as you
age)
Emerging Biological Theories - Answer-
Neuroendocrine Control - Answer-Systems change over time with hormone secretion-
cortisol (inc)-> inc stress, dec estrogen, dec melatonin
Caloric Restriction - Answer-Reduction of cals has inc life span, slow metabolism, and
reduce age related disease (how often and what)
-Genetic Research- disease process
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