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Stress & Coping
Mental Health Care
Mental Health Disorders
Intimacy&Sexuality
Relationships&Roles
100
Motivates one toward growth.
What is healthy stress?
100
These are used less by elders than any other age group.
What are mental health services?
100
Phobias, obsessive-compulsive, posttraumatic stress, panic.
What are types of anxiety disorders?
100
Touch only if _______ and do not assume the patient ______ or _____ to be touched.
Comfortable Likes or wants
100
Role transitions that occur later in life include: List 4
1. Retirement 2. Grandparenthood 3. Widowhood 4. Becoming a caregiver or recipient of care
200
Diminishes one's ability to cope effectively.
What is stress overload?
200
Nurses need to assist the older patient to:
Access mental health services and understand reimbursement.
200
Avoid excessive reassurance; this may reinforce undue worry.
What is an intervention for anxiety in older adults?
200
Touch is a powerful tool to promote _______ and _________ when working with elders.
Comfort Well-being
200
It is important to build on older adults ____ _________ and _______ ______ during transitional periods.
life experiences coping skills
300
Three factors that influence stress management.
What are hardiness, resilience, and resourcefulness?
300
Treatment of mental illness in nursing homes is this.
What is substandard?
300
Holocaust survivors may experience this.
What is PTSD?
300
Intimacy includes the need for: List 5 items
1. Close friendships 2. Relationships with family, friends, caregivers 3. Spiritual connections 4. Knowing you matter to others 5. The ability to form satisfying social relationships
300
List at least 5 common widower bereavement reactions.
1. Search for lost mate 2. Neglect of self 3. Inability to share grief 4. Loss of social contacts 5. Struggle to view women as other than wife 6. Erosion of self-confidence and sexuality 7. Protracted grief period
400
Actively avoiding negative situations.
What is a coping strategy for older adults?
400
These three diverse populations are more likely to be under diagnosed and under treated for depression.
What are racially, culturally, and ethnically diverse populations?
400
New-onset __________ symptoms are common among older adults.
What is paranoid?
400
Sexual health, as with physical health, is:
Not simply the absence of sexual dysfunction or disease, but, rather a state of sexual well-being that includes a positive approach to a sexual relationship and anticipation of a pleasurable experience without fear, shame, or coercion.
400
Social bonding increases _____ _______
Health status
500
Meditation, yoga, exercise.
What are activities to enhance coping ability?
500
Few educational programs focus on this specialty, and few curricula include adequate content in this area.
What is geropsychiatric nursing?
500
Older adults often incorporate significant people into these.
What are delusions?
500
List the names and locations of the touch zones.
Social-hands, arms, shoulders, back Consent-Mouth, wrists, feet Vulnerable-Face, neck, front of body Intimate- Genitalia
500
Family caregiving has been associated with: List 4
Increased depression, anxiety Poorer self health Compromised immune function Increased mortality