Basic Terms
Aging Theories
The Aging Process
Hodgepodge
Health Policy
100
The study of the aged and the aging process in humans and animals
What is gerontology?
100
Category of biological aging theory that presumes aging events occur randomly and accumulate with time.
What is non-genetic aging?
100
Describes the normal gradual changes in organ systems which are inevitable, experienced by everyone, and not associated with disease, impairment, or disability.
What is primary aging?
100
Threat to life, loss of body integrity, change in self concept, threat to future plans change in social roles change in routine acivities, physical discomfort, monotny and boredom, fear of medical procedures, and loss of emotional equilibrium are all examples of these.
What are stressors associated with physical illness common in elders?
100
The year that Title XVIII (Medicare) and Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Amandment was enacted.
What is 1965?
200
An approach of therapy in which elders become central to the management of their own health and well being.
What is client-centered therapy?
200
Aging theory which proposes that cumulative damage within the body leads to the death of cells, tissues, organs, and, ultimately,the organism.
What is the wear and tear theory?
200
Body system in which primary aging effects include decrease in the number and rate of growth of hair follicles, loss of elastin and collagen proteins, decrease in melanin, and decrease in fatty tissue and sweat glands.
What is the integumentary system?
200
Healthy habits, participating in a social netweork of friends and family, exercising regularly, engaging in complex cognitive activities, maintaining a healthy diet, receiving preventive medical treatment and taking aspirin and antioxidant vitamins
What are factors that contribute to successful aging?
200
Timeline for completion of Section G (Functional Status) of the MDS for a new admission to a long term care facility?
What is 14 days?
300
Living where elders have lived for years, typically not a health care environment, using products, services, and conveniences that allow them to remain home.
What is aging in place?
300
A social theory of aging in which elders typically turn inwards, producing a natural and normal withdrawal from social roles and activities, an increasing preoccupation with self, and decreasing involvement with others.
What is disengagement theory?
300
Sensory system in which aging related changes can lead to decreased awareness of body odor, increased safety risks from being uanable to detect smoke, gas, or spoiled food odors.
What is the olfactory system?
300
The factors that contribute to longevity of centenarians.
What are lifestyle, genes and environment?
300
Payment system in which reimbursement rates are established in advanced and is based on a level of care or anticipated level of care.
What is a propective payment system.
400
A belief of powerlessness over decisions and actions that leads to dependence on health care staff for decisions or behaviors the elders should be doing on their own.
What is learned helplessness?
400
Time period in one's life that corresponds to Erikson's stage of ego development known as ego integrity versus ego despair.
What is late adulthood?
400
An intellectual process which impacts numerical reasoning and logic and allows us to "think on out feet" when presented with a new problem.
What is fluid intelligence?
400
Growing societal trends influencing the elderly.
What are elders raising grandchildren, elders remaining in the workforce and elders increasing their use of computer technology?
400
A physician's fee system that uses numbers assigned to every task and service a medical practitioner may provide to a patient, describes patient care outcomes, and helps to calculate reimbursement costs for services such as evaluation, splint application, modalities and timed units of intervention.
What are Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes?
500
Identification and treatment of persons with minimally symptomatic diseases to improve outcomes and maintain health.
What is secondary prevention?
500
Time period in an adult's life which corresponds to the ego differentiation versus work-role preoccupation stage of Peck's stages of psychological development.
What is first stage of old age?
500
A sharp decline in health for no real physical reason
What is failure to thrive?
500
A social theory which may be exampled by a patient who is receiving more attention from staff because of a pleasant, outgoing personality.
What is exchange theory?
500
Patient grouping by the amount and type of therapy services required by the resident of a SNF and is documented in minutes by the therapy department.
What is a resource utilization group (RUG)?
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