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Gero Exam 1 (USAHS) – Questions With Solutions
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Gero Exam 1 (USAHS) – Questions With SolutionsDisengagement theory ✔️Ans - -Withdrawal of aged from society and
society from the aged
-Society assumed older member as unable for work and roles
-Social and work roles are reallocated to younger generation
-Late was problematized and medicalized
Activity theory (productive aging) LOP{) ✔️Ans - -Life satisfaction
directly related to engagement
-Life satisfaction directly related to engagement
-Increased activity=increased satisfaction
-Deeply rooted individualistic, contemporary US Values:
----Independence, autonomy, activity, progress
continuity theory ✔️Ans - -Focuses on the relationship between things
people do and their psych function vs the extent of their environment
-does not address declining health issues or new hobbies
Aging defintion ✔️Ans - Ongoing biopsychosocial process that is
interactive, situated, and negotiated within specific sociocultural, temporal,
and physical contexts.
PEOP model ✔️Ans - well being is a function of interaction among
personal factors, physical environment, sociocultural environment,
demands and qualities of a given occupation or activity
Aging in complex ✔️Ans - · Multidimensional, dynamic process with
requires transdisciplinary approaches
· Process that occurs over lifetime'
· Personal and environmental factors influence performance
· Patterns are actively interpreted, manipulated and modified by
individual's past, current, and anticipated future.
Social changes and implication for later life ✔️Ans - · Decrease family
size (fewer members in succeeding generation)
· Changing availability for support
· Fewer younger adults entering workforce to support retirees
, · Health care providers will switch attention from diagnoses and cure to
health promotion, rehab, and maintenance.
Gerontological Debates and Practice of OT ✔️Ans - · Partnership b/w
client and OT for a shared definition of "good" old age
· Specialization in gerontological OT occurred relatively late in history of
the field
· Evidence Based Approaches are considered integral: screening,
assessment, intervention process
CQI (continuous quality improvement) ✔️Ans - a management
philosophy that emphasizes the organization and systems and processes
within that organization (rather than individuals)
How does OT help older adults? ✔️Ans - Adaptive equipment
ADLs
functional mobility
IADLs
Assessment for ADLs: ✔️Ans - FIM
Assessment for Balance and mobility ✔️Ans - Burg balance test
Assessment for cognitive impairment ✔️Ans - MOCA
Assessment for CVA ✔️Ans - Fugal-Meyer
Assessment for dexterity ✔️Ans - -Minnesota
-9 hole peg
-Box and blocks
Clients come to acute care for ✔️Ans - Injury
Exacerbation of an existing condition
New onset of an illness
Accident
trajectory of the process in the acute care setting ✔️Ans - ER admission
ER physician meeting
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