aging perspectives and demographics Flashcards
Normal physiologic process of time-related change
aging
Bias against older people based perception solely on their chronological age not
on their functional status
ageism
Branch of medicine that is used to study old age (curative)
geriatrics
combined biologic, psychological, and sociologic study of older adults within their environment
gerontology
Field of nursing that specializes in the nursing process (carative)
gerontologic nursing
newborn age
0-1 month
infant age
1 month to 1 year
toddler age
1 to 3 years old
preschool age
3 to 6 years old
school aged
6 to 12 years
adolescent
12 to 19 years
young adult
20-35/40
middle adult
40 to 60 years
young
65
old age at ph
60
young old on western countries/us
65 to 75
young old on ph
60-75
middle old
75-85
oldest old
above 85
centenarians
over 100 years
Global population aged 60 years old
and above accounts to 962 million
global aging
male life expectancy in the ph
57.4
female life expectancy in the ph
63.2
Average number of years a person is expected to live
life expectancy
male life expectancy in us
75
female life expectancy in us
80
maximum number of years an individual is expected to live in absence of diseases
life span
life span of men in us
85
life span of women in us
87
recommended interval in getting pneumococcal vaccine
5 years
recommended interval in getting flu vaccine
1 year
health care financing like government health programs
healthcare cost
major dominant payer in USA that
funds nursing homes costs, hospital services cost
medicare/medicaid
elderly enjoy 20% discount plus VAT exemption during private hospital confinement
philhealth
Individualized document that assess and evaluate elder’s present and future health care and living needs
life care plans
encourage their families and the communities they
live with to reaffirm the valued filipino tradition of caring for their senior citizens
REPUBLIC ACT 9994 OR THE EXPANDED SENIOR CITIZEN ACT OF 2010
