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Gerontology Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass geriatrics - specialty in medicine, dentistry and nursing. focuses on how to manage and prevent diseases associated with old age. gerontology - a multidisciplinary discipline that brings together research specialists in many areas of 1. basic 2...

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geriatrics - ✔✔specialty in medicine, dentistry and nursing. focuses on how to manage and prevent

diseases associated with old age.


gerontology - ✔✔a multidisciplinary discipline that brings together research specialists in many areas of


1. basic


2. clinical (medicine)


3. behavioral (ex: drinking behavior; drink before thirsty)


4. social sciences


ageism - ✔✔negative attitudes help by people towards older people


robert butler - ✔✔first director of the national institute of aging (nia) who coined the term, "ageism"


fields of gerontology - ✔✔a. psychology: seeks ways to improve quality of life for older adults


b. psychiatry


c. sociology


d. physical and occupational therapy


e. nursing


f. social work


g. medicine


h. biology: describes the cellular process of aging

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,i. dentistry


j. economics


k. political sciences


dual process of adaptation of older adults to the environment - ✔✔1. adjust to some qualities of physical

and social environment (ex: extensive paperwork for medicare)


2. induce changes in others/environment (Ex: lobbying to expand Medicare benefits in order to cover

dental care)


4 distinct processes of aging viewed by gerontologist - ✔✔1. chronological aging


2. biological aging


3. psychological aging


4. social aging


chronological aging - ✔✔based on persons years from birth


biological aging - ✔✔based on physical changes that impact the efficiency of the body's organ systems

negatively. process of bodily changes over time


psychological aging - ✔✔based on sensory and perceptual changes, changes in mental functioning,

personality and adaptive capacity


social aging - ✔✔based on people's changing relationships and roles within society, relative to work,

friendship, religious and political groups.


cohort - ✔✔a group of people born at roughly the same time


4 environment comprises - ✔✔1. the community


2. the larger society

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, 3. the neighborhood


4. the home


person-environment perspective: the perspective of social gerontology = the belief that the environment

changes as a function of older adults: - ✔✔a) Taking from the environment what they need


b) Controlling what can be manipulated


c) Adjusting to conditions that cannot be changed


environmental press - ✔✔the demands put on people by physical and social environments to adapt,

respond or change


competence - ✔✔the higher people's competence, the higher the tolerance level for environmental press

(ex: physical disability limits the level of physical and social demand a person can meet) (coping skills)




ex:- sometimes families may do too much for older family members who may no longer feel that they are

contributing to the needs of the family.


maximum life span - ✔✔maximum number of years a given species could be expected to live in the event

that all environmental hazards were eliminated (about 120 years for humans unless some extraordinary

discoveries occur)


life expectancy - ✔✔a probability estimate of how long a person will live based on environmental

conditions including:


1. disease


2. healthcare




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