HCAD 222 Final Test Questions & Answers 2024/2025
young-old - ANSWERS65-74
old-old - ANSWERS75-84
oldest old - ANSWERS85+
Agism - ANSWERSDiscrimination based on age
Religion and Well-Being - ANSWERSincreases in faith and spirituality as people search for meaning
Senescence - ANS...
Religion and Well-Being - ANSWERSincreases in faith and spirituality as people search for meaning
Senescence - ANSWERSThe process by which the capacity for cell division, growth, and function is lost
over time, ultimately leading to an incompatibility with life.
Telomeres - ANSWERStiny tips at the ends of each chromosome that become shorter each time the cell
divides until they are gone and the cell is no longer able to divide
free radicals - ANSWERSmolecules of oxygen ionized because of an extra electron
Antioxidants - ANSWERSa substance that destroys free radicals, thereby preventing damage to cell
structures
Hayflick limit - ANSWERSa maximum number of cell divisions that normal cells undergo, as typically
measured in a laboratory dish
wear and tear theory - ANSWERSyears of damage to the cells, tissues, and organs eventually wears them
out , killing them and then the body
, Aging Clock Theory - ANSWERSclaims that aging is programmed into our bodies like a clock ticking away
from conception
Cross-Linkage Theory - ANSWERSproposes that molecular structures that normally are separated may be
bound together through chemical reactions
free radical theory - ANSWERSoxygen molecules with an unstable electron move around the cell,
damaging cell structures as they go
cellular theory - ANSWERStheory that disease results from abnormalities in body cells
compression of morbidity - ANSWERSthe postponement of illness until later and later into advanced age
malnutrition - ANSWERSover and under nourishment problematic
Factors contributing to malnutrition - ANSWERSchanges in appetite, food access, isolation, lack of
nutritional knowledge
Exercise in Seniors - ANSWERSShould be 20 minutes 3x/weeks
-causes improved mood
-improved health
-cardiac health
- cholesterol levels
-sugar metabolism
-improved balance and decreased risk falls and disabling fractures
-muscle strength and joint flexibility
-reduce age-related losses of bone mass
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