Geriatrics - Unit 1 verified to pass 2023/2024

Geriatrics - Unit 1 Geriatrics - correct answer Medical specialty that deals with the physiology of ageing, diagnoses, and treatments of disorders that effect the elderly Gerontology - correct answer the study of all aspects of the aging process Gerontics - correct answer nursing care and services to the elderly Geriatric Nursing's Aim - correct answer is to safeguard and increase health to the extent possible and to provide comfort and care to the extent necessary. Ageism - correct answer disliking older people based on the belief that aging makes people unattractive, unintellegent, and unproductive; discrimination based on your age. Age Discrimination - correct answer treating older people different just because of their age Gerontophobia - correct answer fear of the aging and difficulty accepting older people in society Demographics - correct answer statistics that study the human population and where the live Vital Statistics - correct answer birth, married, died, age at death, what race; Age Cohorts - correct answer terminology used to describe a group of people born in a specific time or period. example "the baby boomers" Chronologic Age - correct answer the number of years a person has lived