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Nurs 310- Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) Myths about Older Adults - ️️ -Families forget their older relatives -People become senile with age -All old people are constipated -Social security provides a decent retirement income -The majority of older people reside in nursi...

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Nurs 310- Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass)


Myths about Older Adults - ✔️✔️-Families forget their older relatives


-People become senile with age

-All old people are constipated

-Social security provides a decent retirement income

-The majority of older people reside in nursing homes (4.5% live in nursing home)

-Medicare covers all cost related health care for older people (they tell you to get

supplemental insurance, it doesn't cover everything)


Views of Older Adults through History - ✔️✔️-Our current older adults have made

our country great

-Proud GIs who served in wars, brave immigrants, bold entrepreneurs, campus

rebels who fought for rights of minorities, unselfish parents who struggled to give

their children a better life

-Historically, societies have viewed their elders in a variety of ways. Bible states,

"Honor your mother and father."


Demographics - ✔️✔️-Graying of America

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-Baby Boomers: large group of people born between 1946-1964 (began turning 65

years old in 2011)

-Wanting to be independent has hurt us


Baby Boomers - ✔️✔️-Low birth rate (less adult children to help)


-Household incomes higher than previous groups

-Casual dress code

-Enamored with "high tech"

-Less leisure time....more stressed

-Inventors of the fitness movement


Chronological Age - ✔️✔️-years a person has lived since birth


-How old you actually are


Functional Age - ✔️✔️-physical, psychological, and social functioning


-Your function is what is important, the age is just a number


Perceived Age - ✔️✔️-Age identity


-Perceiving yourself as younger than you are helps you age better


Gerontophobia - ✔️✔️fear of aging: idealizing youth

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Ageism - ✔️✔️discrimination & prejudice against someone based solely on aging


Gero Population Trends - ✔️✔️-2003: 35.9 million people > 65 yo; comprising 12%

of population

-2030: 72 million people>65yo; comprising 20% of the population


Life Expectancy trends by race and gender - ✔️✔️-White women have longest life

expectance

-then African American women

-then white men

-then African American men

-Men tend to have worse health habits and more stress


Life Expectancy trend - ✔️✔️Increased by about 30 years from 1900-2000


Life Span for Humans - ✔️✔️122 years


"young old" - ✔️✔️65-74 go-go's


"middle old" - ✔️✔️75-84 slow-go's


"old old" - ✔️✔️85-100 no-go's


"elite old" - ✔️✔️over 100 centenarians

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The New Middle Age - ✔️✔️55-75 years old


Geography: Total Number of Older Adults by population and percent of US

Population over age 65 - ✔️✔️California


Florida

New York

Texas

Pennsylvania


90% of older adults live at...? - ✔️✔️home/apartments


-Broad range of community services to keep people in their own homes

-Want to "age in place"


10% of older adults live in...? - ✔️✔️nursing homes/assisted living


-4.5% in nursing homes


Continuous care communities - ✔️✔️moving toward cruise ship idea


-Want to be entertained, exercising, dining nicely, and socializing


Aging as a Women's Issue - ✔️✔️-Women outlive


men by 7 years

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