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Chapter 2 The Older Adult Flashcards

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What is the fastest-growing segment of the older adult population?

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The 85+ age group

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What percentage of Americans are older than age 65?

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13%

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A child born in 2011 can expect to live to what age?

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78.7 years

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Which is more likely to still be married? Older men or older women?

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72% of older men are married as opposed to 42% of women, while 40% of older women are widows.

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Older adults are divided into four groups. Name them.

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The young old at 65 to 75 years, middle old at 75 to 84 years, old - old, at 85 years plus, and elite old or centenarians.

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What percentage of older adults were below the poverty level as a result of out-of-pocket medical expenses in 2011?

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15.9%

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The first baby boomers began to retire in 2011. The next 18 years boomers will turn 65 at the rate of how many a day?

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About 8000.

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What percentage of my minorities make up the older population in the united states.

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20%

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What percentage of older people residing in the community live alone?

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29%

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What percentage of Social Security recipients mostly rely on their Social Security benefits as their primary income?

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35%

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Which state has the greatest share of the population age 65 and older?

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Florida, followed by West Virginia

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Which state has the lowest percentage of persons 65 and older?

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Alaska

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Divorced or separated older adults represent only what percentage of all older persons in 2010?

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12.4%

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What percentage of older adults were below the poverty level in 2010?

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9%

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This ethical principle is defined as championing the needs of others. The principles involved ensuring that patients are fully informed and able to access all benefits to which they are entitled.

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Advocacy

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This ethical principle is the concept that each person has the right to make independent decisions. This belief is the foundation of patient self-determination and is considered the most important ethical principle.

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Autonomy

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This ethical principle means doing good. For nurses, this includes finding alternative ways to provide the greatest good, and doing no harm to patients.

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Beneficence

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This ethical principle means doing no harm. All nurses who should avoid harming patients.

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Nonmaleficence

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This ethical principle means the right to privacy. This concept is the basis of HIPPA.

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Confidentiality

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This ethical principle means keeping promises and being faithful to one’s commitments and responsibilities. Nurses should keep commitments and honor their word to patients.

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Fidelity

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This ethical principle means fairness of an act or situation. Nurses should treat patients fairly and ensure that they receive services that they deserve.

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Justice

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This ethical principle means the quality of life is a perception based on personal values, which vary widely and may change depending on the situation. Sanctity of life is the belief that all life is valuable, regardless of someone’s level of functioning.

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Quality and sanctity of life

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This ethical principle means truthfulness. Nursing should be truthful with patients.

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Veracity

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Trying to coerce a patient into receiving a life-saving procedure that the patient does not want would be an example of a violation of what ethical principle?

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Autonomy

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The research process, regardless of the discipline, begins with what?

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Identification of a problem

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Qualitative research methods are used when?

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Little is known about the subject, and to reach a deeper understanding of the phenomena, for instrument development, or to generate a hypotheses about a relationship so that further testing can be done

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This type of qualitative research describes experiences as they are lived from the perspective of the study participants

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Phenomenological

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This type of qualitative research tries to understand basic social processes; roots are in sociology

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Grounded theory

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This type of qualitative research tries to understand a culture or subculture from its own perspective, roots are in anthropology

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Ethnography

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This type of qualitative research tries to understand past events

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Historiography

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This type of qualitative research classify words in text by their theoretical importance

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Content analysis

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This type of research which is more common in nursing, is used to explain and predict phenomena, generate cause and effect, testtheory or instruments, or evaluate effectiveness of nursing intervention.

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Quantitative research

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This type of variable is a stimulus or activity that is being manipulated by the researcher to create an effect on the dependent variable

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Independent variable

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This variable is the response, behavior, or outcome that the researcher wants to predict or explain.

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Dependent variable

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This variable is other factors that can change it may influence the dependent variable

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Extraneous

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Characteristics of the participants that are collected for descriptive purposes

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Demographic variables

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Is support for cause and effect relationships or evidence that a change in outcomes is the result of an intervention or action carried out by the researchers

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Causality

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Is the measure of truth or accuracy of the study

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Validity

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This type of validity reflects whether the conclusions made through the analysis reflect the real world

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Statistical conclusion validity. It includes potential type one and type two errors

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This type of validity is the extent to which the effect detected in a study results from the relationship between the independent and dependent variable, not from an extraneous factor

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Internal validity

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This type of validity is the quality of the fit between the definition of a concept and it’s method of measurement

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Construct validity

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This type of validity is the extent to which research findings can be generalized beyond the samples used in the study.

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External validity

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This type of quantitative research is used to delineate characteristics of a sample or setting

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Descriptive

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This type of quantitative research is used to study a population by systematically examining a representative sample. Findings generalized to the population represented by the sample

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Correlational

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This type of quantitative research is used to test hypotheses about casual relationships

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Experimental and Quasi experimental

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