Older Adults

Front 1

what are the 5 causes of falls and injuries?

Back 1

1. chronic illness
2. medication
3. low vision
4. balance problems
5. environment

Front 2

What are the safety wise principles for modification in design?

FLIESS

Back 2

equitable use
flexibility in use
simple and intuitive
information is perceptive
low physical effort
size and space for approach and use

Front 3

ones intrinsic performance potential
- physical and functional healthy
-cognitive and affective functioning

Back 3

competence

Front 4

demands and resources of the environment that normally elicit a response
- physical environment natural and built

Back 4

press

Front 5

persons at lower end of competence are more vulnerable to the demands of their environment

Back 5

environmental docility hypothesis

Front 6

hypothesis that states...
- individuals can actively change environments to maintain functional ability/ independence
- environmental modification
-environmental centralization
-symbolic modification- subjectively reevaluating interior space as more valuable that inaccessible outside spaces

Back 6

environmental proactivity hypothesis

Front 7

what are the 3 functions of socio-physical environment

Back 7

1. maintenance
2. stimulation
3. support

Front 8

this function of socio-physical environment..
- environment provides predictable, constant setting (fit for procedural memory)

Back 8

maintenance

Front 9

this function of socio-physical environment
- environment provides a departure from the usual novel stimuli and their effect

Back 9

stimulation

Front 10

this function of socio-physical environment
- environments potential to compensate for decline in competence/ functioning

Back 10

support

Front 11

- a cognitive emotional bonding to home
- social physical and autobiographical insideness

Back 11

place attachment

Front 12

loss of muscle mass

Back 12

sarcopenia

Front 13

postural changes affect performance skills such as..

Back 13

stabilizzation
alignment
position

Front 14

impaired mobility may affect..

Back 14

walking
reaching
bending

Front 15

In regards to delirium, what should you observe during the assessment??

BM HAM

Back 15

- affect
- hygiene
-motor functions
-behaviors
-manner and level of response to questions

Front 16

loss of speech

Back 16

aphasia

Front 17

loss of motor planning

Back 17

apraxia

Front 18

loss of recognition of items

Back 18

agnasia

Front 19

what is the most common postural change

Back 19

forward head
rounded shoulders
slight kyphosis
decreased lumbar lordosis
increased hip and knee flexion
decreased strength and flexibility in flexors

Front 20

fall history steps to observe

SPLATT

Back 20

symptoms
previous falls
location of falls
activity during time of falls
time of fall
trauma

Front 21

- a cognitive emotional bonding to home
- social physical and autobiographical insideness

Back 21

place attachment

Front 22

loss of muscle mass

Back 22

sarcopenia

Front 23

postural changes affect performance skills such as..

Back 23

stabilizzation
alignment
position

Front 24

impaired mobility may affect..

Back 24

walking
reaching
bending

Front 25

In regards to delirium, what should you observe during the assessment??

BM HAM

Back 25

- affect
- hygiene
-motor functions
-behaviors
-manner and level of response to questions

Front 26

loss of speech

Back 26

aphasia

Front 27

loss of motor planning

Back 27

apraxia

Front 28

loss of recognition of items

Back 28

agnasia

Front 29

what is the most common postural change

Back 29

forward head
rounded shoulders
slight kyphosis
decreased lumbar lordosis
increased hip and knee flexion
decreased strength and flexibility in flexors

Front 30

fall history steps to observe

SPLATT

Back 30

symptoms
previous falls
location of falls
activity during time of falls
time of fall
trauma

Front 31

decreased ability to see objects clearly

Back 31

acuity

Front 32

decreased ability to focus on obects at varying distances
-decreased ability to focus on close objects

Back 32

accomodation

Front 33

decreased ability to discern colors at blue end of spectrum

Back 33

color intensity

Front 34

awareness that movement seen peripherally can create situation in which individiual feels like he is moving

Back 34

opto/ kinetic response

Front 35

reflect capacities that reside within the body
-joint mobility, ROM, MMT

Back 35

client factors

Front 36

abilities clients demonstrate in the actions they perform
-motor skills, planning

Back 36

performance skills

Front 37

actions/ behaviors clients use to move and interact with tasks, contexts, environments

Back 37

motor skills

Front 38

ability to carry out sequential motor acts

Back 38

motor-planning (praxis) skills

Front 39

type of intelligence:
- based on changes in CNS
- tasks involving speed and novel tasks, psychomotor tasks, laerning, memory, problem solving
- age related decline is linear

Back 39

fluid intelligence

Front 40

type of intelligence
-based on experience
- accumulated knowledge, verbal scales
- vocabulary, verbal comprehension

Back 40

crystallized intelligence

Front 41

memory of personally relevant facts and events
-recent or remote

Back 41

episodic memory

Front 42

knowlednge and beliefs about info without reference to how and when originally learned
- integration of info and stored in more complex manner: organized conceptually

Back 42

semantic memory

Front 43

most basic and durable long term memory

Back 43

procedural memory