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GERONTOLOGY QUIZ 1 WITH CORRECT ANSWERS UPDATED AND VERIFIED persons over the age of 60 worldwide will double in the year ____ and will consist of mostly this sex - 2050 female Those that are still alive at 110 years of age - Super-Centenarians Those between the ages of 100 and 109 years - Ce...

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GERONTOLOGY QUIZ 1 WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS UPDATED AND VERIFIED

persons over the age of 60 worldwide will double in the year ____ and will consist of mostly this sex -

✔✔2050


female


Those that are still alive at 110 years of age - ✔✔Super-Centenarians


Those between the ages of 100 and 109 years - ✔✔Centenarians


Strategies that can and are used to prevent illness before it occurs - ✔✔primary prevention


Early detection of the disease or health problem that has already developed - ✔✔secondary prevention


Addresses the needs of persons who have their day-to-day wellness challenged, by slowing disease or

limiting complications - ✔✔tertiary prevention


The greatest increase in aging by group percentage is occurring among those: - ✔✔85 and older


Estimates are by 2020 up to ____% of nurses' time will be spent with older adults - ✔✔75


Origins of gerontological nursing rooted in ____ & began with - ✔✔England


Florence nightingale


Scope and Standards of Practice addresses knowledge and skills for nurses is done by - ✔✔ANA

Gerontological Nursing


Started in 1992 and designed to improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults: - ✔✔Nurses Improving

Care of Health System Elders (NICHE)


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, One in _____ older adults is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of leaving - ✔✔five


1 out of ___ Medicare patients admitted to a skilled nursing facility will be readmitted within 30 days -

✔✔4


_____ are the most prevalent adverse event following discharge from the hospital - ✔✔Medication

discrepancies


Which was the first formal action the ANA took in relation to gerontological nursing? - ✔✔Established a

national geriatric nursing group


Which gerontological organization had a significant influence on the care of older adults? - ✔✔john

Hartford foundation


Biological aging— aka "____" - ✔✔senescence


A complex genetically regulated interactive process of change in every living organism - ✔✔Biological

aging—"senescence


Changes to cells that decrease ability to replicate attributed to aging, especially the mitochondria - -

✔✔cellular functioning


What biological theory?


Cellular replication is critical to survival, integrity of genetic code implies new cells have same form and

fx of old ones, organisms are destined to become more complex over time - - ✔✔cellular function and

aging


What biological theory?


Cells have limited replication, aging is result of predictable cellular death, cells and organisms have

predetermined life span known as haflick limit or biological clock, - ✔✔Programmed aging theory




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