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Health Promotion
Physiologic Changes
Cognition
100
The number of older adults is increasing like never before. One of the main reasons is this most significant cohort.
What is baby boomers?
100
There are four types of exercise we can recommend to older adults. All are helpful for improving health. Muscle strengthening builds and maintains muscle. Flexibility exercises prevent injuries and reduce muscle tension. Endurance exercises improve function of the heart, lungs and blood vessels. The fourth type of exercise prevents falls.
What is balance training?
100
The study of how older adults respond to medications.
What is geropharmacology?
100
Stooped hunchback appearance.
What is kyphosis?
100
Accounts for approximately 60% of dementias.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
200
Children of aged parents who are caught in the middle. They are raising kids, working and providing care to 1 - 2 generations of elder family members.
What is the "sandwich generation"?
200
The older adult requires a diet high in nutrients but low in __________________.
What is calories?
200
The disruption of a person's life principle. Defined as a lack of hope or an inability to see a purpose or meaning in one's life.
What is spiritual distress?
200
Raised wart-like itchy spots on the skin, are a common physiologic change associated with the aging integumentary system.
What is seborrheic keratosis?
200
Patients with Alzheimer's disease have _____________ and amyloid plaques in their brain which interfere with the brain cell's ability to transmit impulses.
What is neurofibriallary tangles?
300
The three types of neglect are; passive neglect, active neglect and ___________.
What is self neglect?
300
A common fear that results in inadequate fluid intake among the older adult population.
What is fear of incontinence?
300
The risk of developing this herpes zoster infection increases with age.
What is shingles?
300
Older adults are at increased risk for this serious condition because of reduced number of cilia, a decrease in intercostal muscle tone and the diaphragm flattens and becomes less elastic. Decreased immune response also plays a role.
What is respiratory infections or pneumonia?
300
The only one of the three D's which is irreversible.
What is dementia?
400
This type of abuse occurs when a dependent older person is deserted by their caregiver, under circumstances in which a reasonable person would continue to provide care.
What is abandonment?
400
The term used to describe inability to swallow or difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
400
This form of preventative treatment is recommended for the older adult population because their immune system is less responsive. It may be administered during the older adults yearly exam.
What is immunizations?
400
Every muscle in the body atrophies with age, with the exception of this one muscle.
What is the cardiac muscle?
400
Means that the patient is oriented X 3.
What is person, place and time?
500
Describes the physiologic or psychological stress that occurs whan a person is transferred from one environment to another.
What is relocation stress syndrome?
500
This machine is a treatment method used to maintain an open airway for older adults to suffer from sleep apnea.
What is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)?
500
This is the most common cause of injury and is experienced by one third of seniors every year.
What is falls?
500
This most common visual problem in the older adult population causes farsightedness.
What is presbyopia?
500
Is a way of communicating with disoriented elders. Means respecting the feelings of the person and confirming that from the individual's perspective, the experience is true.
What is validation?