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Gerontological Nursing Exam #1 Questions And Correct Answers Chapter 1 - answerIntroduction to Healthy Aging Identify three factors that influence the aging experience: What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - answerHealth, History and sex Aging Cohort: When establish...

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Gerontological Nursing Exam #1 Questions
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Chapter 1 - answer✔Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:

What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - answer✔Health, History and
sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by setting the
retirement age at 65 years? - answer✔A time frame as being old.

Aging depends on what? - answer✔- Decade during which one was born or his or her history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history

What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - answer✔Women usually
live alone after widowhood.

What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - answer✔Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? -
answer✔Female

Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - answer✔Health:
influenced by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is true? -
answer✔Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors

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What does wellness involve? - answer✔Wellness involves achieving a balance between one's
internal and external environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, and physical
processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following except: -
answer✔psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and well
being? - answer✔Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends weekly baseball
games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to have the
fastest growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010 and 2050? -
answer✔Hispanic Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for understanding
individuals and their concerns was developed by who? - answer✔Abraham Maslow
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological nursing: A client's basic needs have been
met when they have been what? - answer✔Fed a warm breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? -
answer✔self-actualization

Chapter 2 - answer✔Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Discuss the implications of a growing older adult population on nursing education, practice and
research:
What type of care is projected to be the fastest growing employment sector in the health care
industry? - answer✔Eldercare
Based on the current demographic data, which of the following statements identifies a predictive
trend regarding the health care needs of society? - answer✔More nursing services will be
required to serve the needs of the population older than 85 years of age.

Identify the best statement about gerontological nursing: - answer✔Purposes of gerontological
nursing include the promotion of health and support for maximal independence.
Identify several factors that have influenced the development of gerontological nursing as a
specialty practice: - answer✔- shortages in nursing faculty prepared in gerontological nursing,
there is a critical need for nurses to have higher educations and expertise in care of older adults
- the majority of nurses practicing today and in the future will be caring for older adult patients

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