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EDITION TEST BANK LATEST 2024/2025 WITH ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED (DETAILED)
ANSWERS/ALREADY GRADED A+




What does older adults need? - ANSWER--Accurate information
-Interventions to promote wellness during all stages of health and illness


What is the intent of Gerontological Nursing text? - ANSWER--To provide
comprehensive and research-based information so that nurses can distinguish
between the changes associated with normal aging and those that result from
risk factors.


What can nurses do for older adults? - ANSWER--Promote wellness which
includes:
1.) Improved health
2.)Improved Functioning
3.) Improved Quality of Life


Who brought the concept of wellness in relation to aging and talked about
high-level wellness on the radio? - ANSWER--Halbert L. Dunn, MD, PhD


High-level wellness - ANSWER--integrated method of functioning that is
oriented toward maximizing each person's potential, while maintaining a

,continuum of balance and purposeful direction within the person's
environment.


What did Halbert L. Dunn addressed? - ANSWER--Stereotypes about aging and
emphasized that "Healthy maturity" is characterized not only by physical
decline but also by wisdom.


-Discussed the relationship between mind, body, and spirit and stressed the
importance of older adults having a purpose in life, communicating with
others, maintaining personal dignity, and contributing to society.


What are the barriers in promoting wellness in older adults? - ANSWER-- Older
adults may be pessimistic about their ability to improve their health and
functioning.


-Survival needs and a multitude of health problems may take precedence over
the "luxury" of being able to focus on wellness and quality of life.


-Despite the increasing emphasis on wellness and health promotion, health
care environments focus more on treating diseases than on preventing illness
and addressing whole-person needs.


-Often older adults and health care providers mistakenly attribute symptoms to
aging rather than identify and address the contributing factors that are
reversible and treatable.


-Health care providers may not believe that older adults area capable of
learning and implementing health-promoting behaviors that are inherent in
wellness-oriented care.

,What is the major focus of a "wellness approach" to older adult? - ANSWER--
Addressing the body-mind-spirit interconnectedness of each older adult as a
unique and respected individual.


What are some nursing actions that promote wellness for older adults? -
ANSWER--Addressing the body-mind-spirit interrelatedness of each older adult.


-Identifying and challenging ageist attitudes (including their own), especially
those that interfere with optimal health care.


-Assessing each older adult from a whole-person perspective.


-Incorporating wellness nursing diagnoses as routing part of care.


-Planning for wellness outcomes, which are directed toward improved health,
functioning, and quality of life.


-Using nursing interventions to address conditions that interfere with optimal
functioning (including lack of accurate information about aging)


-Recognizing each older adult's potential for improved health and functioning
as well as psychological and spiritual growth.


-Teaching about self-care behaviors to improve health and functioning (or
teaching caregivers of dependent older adults)


What is aging? - ANSWER-Is a universal process that begins at birth; it applies
equally to young and old people.

, Children views on aging - ANSWER--They are delight in announcing how old
they are, and they anticipate birthdays with great enthusiasm.
-They view their birthdays as positive events that will permit them to enjoy
additional opportunities and responsibilities.


Adolescents views on aging - ANSWER--They view aging as the mechanism that
allows them to participate legally in important activities, such as driving and
voting.


Adults views on aging - ANSWER--They view "old age" as something to be
avoided and they are likely to define the onset of older adulthood as a decade
beyond their current age.


Subjective age (feel age or age identity) - ANSWER--Describes a person's
perception of his or her age.
-how old the person feels, how the person categorizes himself or herself in age
groups, and how one sees oneself relative to one's younger self and relative to
other people.


Chronologic age - ANSWER--As the length of time that has passed since birth.


Advantages of Chronologic age: - ANSWER--It serves as an objective basis for
social organization


EX: age criteria for certain activities such as voting, education, driving,
marriage, employment, alcohol consumption, military services, and the
collection of retirement benefits.

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