Theories
Thesis based on the human life span being fixed and finite and the improvements in health care and prevention will compress years of disability and improve an individual's quality of life.
What is the Compression of Morbidity Thesis?
_____ is the degree of difficulty an individual experiences in performing activities of daily living.
What is Functional Status?
A insurance policy that pays for health care expenses not covered by Medicaid
What is Medigap policy
True or false: Many physicians hold bias or stereotypical views of the aged and express little desire to work with older people.
True
African Americans, Hispanics and native americans have poorer health than _____ on a variety of measures
What are Whites?
Two theories about the relationship between education, health and aging.
What is the Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and Convergence Theory?
Defined as a pattern of behavior based on choices and options that are available to people according to their life situations.
What is Health Lifestyle?
Health insurance plan run by a financial officer. A group of physicians belong to the HMO and the services are monitored by to achieve efficiency and control cost.
What is Health Maintance Organization
_____ Granted doctors a great deal of autonomy and contains financial incentives to perform many services and procedures
What is Fee-for-service?
Generally know more about their health, take better care of themselves, and are more likely to report ailments
What are women?
The theory that people who begin life with greater resources continue to have opportunities to accumulate more, those who begin with few resources fall further behind.
What is the Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage?
Preparing meals is a form of _______ activity of daily living.
What is Instrumental?
Conditions for which there is usually no cure
What is Chronic diseases
______ Allows children to remain on their parents' health plan until 26 and will eliminate the donut hole in Medicare.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Why do women have a higher risk of disability than men?
They live longer than men and they experience more years at the ages when people are most vulnerable to illness.
Theory that old age is a great leveler; inequality is reduced later in life.
What is the Convergence theory?
Eating, Dressing are a form of ______ activity of daily living.
What is Personal?
Refers to activity undertaken by a individual to promote good health and prevent health problems.
What is Health behavior
Smoking is the major cause of ______ and the two major ones are emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases?(COPD)
Men are more likely to have more contact with the healthcare system.
True
Coined by James Fries in 2005.
What is the Compression of Morbidity Thesis?
After Smoking, _____ is the most important lifestyle influence on health.
What is Exercise?
A multidimensional concept that focuses on impact health status focus on physical, mental, and social function and quality of life overall
What is Health-related quality of life
____ People who consume 14 or more drinks per week, more likely to suffer from cirrhosis of the liver, certain cancers, and hypertension.
What are heavy drinkers?
Older LGBTQ+ individuals experience less health problems than heterosexuals.
False. 47% report having disability and many others have health problems including high blood pressure, cholesterol and arthritis.