Factors Affecting Healthcare
This is the nickname for the generation born between 1946-1964
What is the Baby Boomer generation?
These two factors are correlated to multimorbidity, life expectancy, and incidence of health disparities
What is race and ethnicity?
These include retirement communities, independent homes, and assisted-living or long-term care facilities that impact older adult health and well-being
What are living arrangements?
Social determinants of health affects this percentage of one's health outcomes compared to 20% of clinical care
What is 50%?
This preventative healthcare is generally not covered by Medicare and Medicaid
What is dental care?
This is the age group that older adults in the U.S. will soon outnumber
What are children?
This chronic condition was most associated with hospitalizations, SNF admissions, and death in White Americans in the U.S.
What is cardiovascular disease?
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Financial constraints related to high housing costs hamper many older adults ability to buy health foods or __________.
What is medications?
This specialized agency determined there is a worldwide pattern that low socioeconomic status is correlated with poor health outcomes
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This is often the cause of complexity in communication and family decision making at end of life.
What is health illiteracy?
This is the percentage of approximately how many older adults will make up the U.S. population in the next decade
What is 21%?
This chronic condition is most associated with hospitalizations, SNF admission, and death in Black Americans in the U.S.
What is kidney disease?
This is the term for staying in one's family home and familiar community as long as possible and delaying admission to any kind of institutional care setting.
What is aging in place?
This is an essential method of managing chronic illnesses such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity
What is good nutrition?
This factor can cause a significant barrier to gaining and understanding health information for older adults
What are sensory deficits (hearing or vision impairments)?
This term has been used for "older adult" in diverse cultural groups
What is elder?
This is the only state in the U.S. that has a city in the Longevity Blue Zone
What is California?
DAILY DOUBLE
CCRC is an acronym for this
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
These benefits from the federal government provide monthly benefits to low-income individuals and many older adults to purchase food
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
This refers to healthcare services that are provided in a way that respects and responds to the diverse cultural and linguistic needs of individuals and considers the client's cultural health beliefs, preferred languages, health literacy levels, and communication preferences.
What is culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS)?
This is the term for differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that is experienced by socially disadvantaged populations
DAILY DOUBLE
This culture has the shortest life expectancy in the U.S.
What is American Indian/Alaska Native persons (AIAN)?
This is the term for residents who reside in a nursing home who do not need assistance with certain activities of daily living like eating, toileting, mobility, and transferring
What is low-care nursing home residents?
This service received by older adults improved anxiety and self-rated health, as well as decreased numbers of hospitalizations and falls
What is home delivered meals?
This is the crucial first step to facilitate healthcare literacy and includes using plain, nonmedical language, speaking slowly, and drawing pictures
What is clear communication?