Ch 13-14

Question 1

Young adult

Answer 1

Late teens - mid late 30’s

Question 2

Middle adult

Answer 2

35-64

Question 3

Older adult

Answer 3

65 – older

Question 4

Young adult developmental tasks

Answer 4

Choosing a mate
Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
Learning to live with a partner
Rearing children
Managing a home
Establishing an occupation
Taking on community responsibilities
Finding a compatible social group

Question 5

Young adult psycho, social changes

Answer 5

Must educate, safe, sex practices
This age group tends to define their friends as family

Question 6

Health risks
Young adult

Answer 6

This age group is not sure a family history
Environmental/occupational factors; are they using protection at work?

Question 7

Sandwich generation

Answer 7

The middle adult is known to take care of their children as well as their parents

Question 8

Middle adult developmental task

Answer 8

Civic and social responsibilities
Maintain economic standard of living
Accept physiology changes
Assist teenage children to become responsible adults
Adjust to aging parents
Development of adult leisure activities

Question 9

Metal adult physical changes

Answer 9

Hair, skin, and weight
Hearing and vision changes
Menopause/climatic
Erectile dysfunction

Question 10

Middle adult Physio, social changes

Answer 10

Empty nest: sadness/loneliness
Career transition
Great joy your stress for a couple
Question life choices
Sexuality:
Menopause
Erectile dysfunction
Family events:
Death

Question 11

Older adult developmental tasks

Answer 11

Adjusting to change is related to health and physical strength
Adjusting to retirement and reduced or fixed income
Adjusting to death of a spouse, children, siblings, friends
Excepting self as an aging person
Maintaining satisfactory, living arrangements
Redefining relationships with adult children, and or siblings
Maintaining quality of life

Question 12

Older adult assessment
Variations from normal signs and symptoms

Answer 12

UTIs tend to affect the older adults differently and have a greater side effects

Question 13

Delirium

Answer 13

Acute(comes fast) confusional, state common for older adults, who are hospitalized

Question 14

Dementia

Answer 14

Generalized impairment of intellectual functioning
Patients tend to wander

Question 15

Depression

Answer 15

I moved disturbance characterized by feeling of sadness and despair

Question 16

Polypharmacy

Answer 16

Many drugs taken to treat a certain illness

Question 17

Elder mistreatment

Answer 17

Physical, emotional, financial, sexually neglect