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NURS 209 Midterm
NURS 209 Midterm Exam
Questions with Correct Verified
Solution 2024/2025, GRADED A
1. What are the trends of the geriatric population - ANS ✔People
are living longer and longer
The population of 65+ is getting larger and larger (differentiate between
65+ and 85+)
Women are living longer than men in the geriatric population
The centenarian (100+) group is the fastest growing group
Growing amount of 85+ living in a collective dwelling
2. What are the trends of elderly people and their personal
activities - ANS ✔Lots of people are actively pursuing exercising,
socializing, and technology
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Tons of elderly engage in passive leisure activities
3. What is aging in place - ANS ✔Helping adults live independently in
their homes, which includes home modifications, consultation,
energy conservation, home safety and social interaction
Also includes safe and accessible transportation, and available community
support and health services
4. What are the social determinants of health - ANS ✔50%:
Life/Social Environment/Upbringing: Lifestyle, food, education,
income, race, housing...
25%: Health Care System; wait times, access, resources
15%: Genetics and Biology
10%: Physical Environment; Air Quality, Civic Infrastructure
5. What is the Dahlgren rainbow model of aging - ANS ✔How SES,
culture, environment interact with living/working, social, lifestyle,
and genetics
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(like a Bronfenbrenner circles)
6. What is the active aging model - ANS ✔Social determinants of
health, behaviours, medical, environment, lifestyle+culture+gender
influence active aging
7. What are the common issues in gerontology - ANS ✔Aging in
place - People need to be able to age where they want (house
modifications)
Support caregivers/aging workforce - Older people are staying in the
workforce too long, overworked or understaffed
Social engagement - less family support
Elder abuse - overworked elders for example
8. What are the factors that affect socioeconomic status - ANS
✔Education, income, gender, race/ethnicity, immigration, mortality,
health resource utilization
9. How does education affect socioeconomic status - ANS ✔More
educated are able to thrive, are healthier, and have better function
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Could be due to being educated on how to navigate a complex health
system and understanding the available health services
10. How does income affect socioeconomic status - ANS
✔Higher income = healthier lifestyles
Low income is linked with higher functional disability
11. How does gender affect socioeconomic status - ANS
✔Women live longer than men but are less healthy
12. How does race affect socioeconomic status - ANS
✔Indigenous people are disadvantaged
Other socioeconomic factors are affects (available resources, lower income,
social isolation)
13. How does immigration affect socioeconomic status - ANS
✔Health immigrant effect - Health starts out higher than Canadians
but quickly dissolves
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