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Geriatrics exam 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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Geriatrics exam 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILEDANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024-2025 (VERIFIED
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• Acute conditions:
- has a sudden onset
- ends in a short time with recovery or death
• Chronic conditions:
- onset can be sudden or insidious(slow)
- continues forever
- illness can become a persons’ identity.
• Disease: pathophysiology of the condition
• Illness: the human experience of symptoms and suffering. How they
handle the disease.
• We as MEDICs can make a difference in the illness that the client is
experiencing, but we can’t cure chronic diseases.
• The U.S. healthcare system ranks the bottom among the 30 wealthy
countries.
• Chronic diseases involves the whole body.
- Can have an impact on relationships, behavior, and self-image
• Current views of chronic disease:
- We have to self0care and self-manage our chronic disease
- We have to participate in social roles
- We have to participate with HCP to obtain optimal health.
• Past perspectives of chronic Disease:
- We were exempt from social roles
- We weren’t responsible for the disease
, - We had the choice to want to become well or not
- We had the choice to seek and cooperate with providers to get help.
• Chronic sorrow: the long-term periodic sadness they experience in
reaction to continual losses.
• Illness behavior: how they experience the disease like changes in ADL’s
and how they function and other welfare benefits
• Illness is molded by:
- Culture
- Daily interactions, past experiences
- Socioeconomic factors
• Interventions for illness:
- Client’s don’t need their illness behavior fixed or cured, they need us
to listen and understand the illness experience and not just the
disease process.
• Outcomes:
- Illness behavior is not deviant
- Support client and understand the experience of their illness
- Support and assist them through their experience
• Professional values:
- Altruism: concern for the welfare and well-being of others
- Autonomy: the right to self-determination
- Human dignity: the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and
populations
- Integrity: acting in accordance with code of ethics
- Social justice: treating all clients equally without regard to economic
status, ethnicity, age, citizenship, disability, or sexual orientation.
- Beneficence: actions should promote good
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