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34 Cards in this Set
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The best way to age is to stay active physically and mentally
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Activity theory
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A day care center that provides health and social services to the older adult.
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Adult day care
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Deep and profound prejudice in American society against older adults.
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Ageism
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Disease that involves progressive dementia, memory loss, and inability to care for self.
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Alzheimer's disease (AD)
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Facility with various degrees of personal care assistance designed to meet the needs of an older person.
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Assisted living
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An opacity of the eye lens or its capsule that blocks light rays.
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Cataracts
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People maintain their values, habits, and behavior in old age.
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Continuity Theory
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A global impairment of cogn funct, usually is progressive & may be permanent. Interferes w/ normal social & occupational activities
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Dementia
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Aging involves mutual withdrawl (disengagement) btwn older person and others in the elderly person's environment.
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Disengagement theory
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Difficult or labored breathing.
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Dyspnea
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The use of technology in the delivery of health care and health information.
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E-health
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Medical care of the elderly
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Geriatrics
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The study of aging and older adults.
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Gerontology
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A core body temperature below the lower limit of normal.
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Hypothermia
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Excessive convex curvature of the thoracic spine, humpback.
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Kyphosis
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The repository for information stored for periods longer than 72 hours and usually weeks and years.
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Long-term memory
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Demineralization of the bone
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Osteoporosis
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Spontaneous fractures to which elderly persons are prone.
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Pathologic fractures
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The ability to interpret the environment through the senses.
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Perception
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Generalized loss of hearing due to aging.
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Presbycusis
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Deals with activities of the recent past of minutes to a few hours.
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Recent memory
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Steady decrease in muscle fibers.
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Sarcopenia
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Momentary perception of stimuli by the senses.
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Sensory memory
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Information held in the brain for immediate use or what one has in mind at a given moment.
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Short-term memory
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Diseases that are prolonged, do not resolve spontaneously, and are rarely cured completely.
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Chronic Illness
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Intentional acts by a caregiver or "trusted other" that cause harm or serious risk of harm to a vulnerable older adult &/or neglect meeting basic needs of a vulnerable older adult.
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Elder Abuse/Mistreatment
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Specialty area of providing culturally competent care to ethnic elders.
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Ethnogeriatric
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Older adults who, because of declining physical health and resources, are most vulnerable.
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Frail Elderly
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Care of older adults based on the specialty body of knowledge of gerontology.
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Gerontologic nursing
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A federally funded health insurance program for people ages 65 yrs and older, as well as for some people with disabilities under age 65 & for all people with end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis or a transplant.
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Medicare
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60 to 74 years of age
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Young-old adults
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75 to 84 years of age
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Old adults
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85 to 100 years of age
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Old-Old adults
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Over 100 years old
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Centenarians
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