Conditions
What is Alzheimer's disease?
What is a form of dementia that causes progressive changes in brain cells, this disease can cause a lack of neurotransmitters that allow messages to pass between nerve cells in the brain
What is the process of urinating at night?
What is nocturia
Is age determined by number or determined through feelings?
Age is determined through feelings, thoughts, and behaviors
What is the main change is the integumentary system when aging?
What is the production of new skin cells decrease
What is culture?
What are values, beliefs, ideas, customs, and characteristics that are passes from one generation to the next, it creates differences in individuals
What is dementia?
What is a brain syndrome which is a loss of mental ability characterized by a disease in intellectual ability, loss of memory, impaired judgement, personality change, and disorientation
What is inflammation of the joints causing stiffness, less flexibility, and pain?
What is arthritis
Are elderly people incompetent?
What is the main sign of aging in the musculoskeletal system?
What is muscles lose tone, volume, and strength
What are false beliefs?
What are myths
What is dysphagia?
What is less saliva and slower gag reflex can cause a difficulty while swallowing
What is a condition in which the walls of a blood vessel can become thick and lose their elasticity?
What is arteriosclerosis
How much of the elderly population is care for in long-term care facilities?
Approximately 5%
What is the main sign of aging in the respiratory system?
What is that the rib cage becomes more rigid
What is beliefs and practices of an individual, this can affect the lifestyle of individuals
What is emphysema?
What is a chronic lung condition involving the alveoli losing their elasticity, this can cause a decrease in efficiency and function of the respiratory system
What is when the normally transparent lens of the eye becomes cloudy or opaque?
What is cataracts
Do elderly people live comfortably or in poverty?
Only about 12% of elderly adults live in poverty
What is the main sign of aging in the circulatory system?
What is the heart huscle becomes less efficient at pushing blood into the arteries
What are activities that help promote awareness of person, time, and place?
What is reality orientation
What is incontinence?
What is the inability to control urination, may be a result from treatment from the enlargement of the prostate gland
What is when bronchioles become inflamed causing the respiratory system’s efficiency and function to decrease?
What is bronchitis
Does getting old mean you are sick or are you still healthy?
Through generational evolution the elderly care has made many elderly a lot healthier
What is the main sign of aging in the nervous system?
What is blood flow to the brain decreases
What is ombudsman?
What is a specially trained individual who works with the elderly and other families, health care providers, and other concerned individuals to improve quality of care and quality of life