CH. 7 Life Span Development Flashcards
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Assessment in Action Answers
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1.Answer: AHypertension
2.Answer: A
Slower pupillary reaction
3.Answer: C.
It may take older adult patients more time to respond to your questions.
4.Answer: A.
Nervous
5.Answer: B
Overall health of the patient.
6.Answer: C
Family members.
- Answer: Side effects of certain medications may cause weakness, dizziness, and/or hypotension. Knowing what medications the patient takes and the side effects of those medications makes you better able to understand what caused a fall.
- Answer: The year you were born and the country you live in can affect your life expectancy. These two factors are based on public health advances, changes within diets, attitudes regarding exercise, advances in medical care, access to that medical care, and personal behaviors. Overall health, medical conditions, and medications taken also contribute.
- Answer: Rising costs of health care, mortality, death of friends and loved ones, isolation, depression
- Answer: The increasing number of older adults in the United States as a result of the baby boom of the 1940s through the 1960s has produced a need for additional extended care facilities.
