Final Exam Flashcards
How many symptoms do you need to have to be considered a dx of depression?
5 for more than 2 weeks
Depression is the most common psychiatric syndrome for older adults. True of false?
True
What are the rates of subsyndromal depression?
15 to 15%
True or False? Depression is less prevalent among older adults compared to younger adults?
Ture
What are types of physical restraints?
Vest with straps, waist belts soft or hard lab trays
Level I violence involving elder adults
Self-mistreatment, elder mistreatment, crime by stranger
Level II relationship between victim and perpetrator
Personal/social relationship, professional/business relationship
Level III How the destructive behavior is carried out?
Neglect, abuse
Level IV: Purpose motivating the destructive behavior
Intentional, unintentional
Level V: the specific type of destructive behavior
Physical, social, psychological financial
What is accessible design?
Meets prescribed code requirements for use by people with disabilities.
What is adaptable design?
Making modification to a standard design by adding on.
A home that allows for future modifications and constomization with little cost
What is transgenerational or life span design?
Considers changes as on ages. Not specific to illness.
Universal design?
a design of product and environment that can be used and experienced by people of all ages and abilities to the greatest extent possible without adaptation.
Toilet hight?
17-19 inches
Clear space fro 180 degree w/c turn
60 inches diameter
Maximum slope of ramp?
1:12
minimum clear width ?
36 inches
Thresholds?
Exterior 3/4 interior 1/2 inch
Max high forward reach ?
48 inches
Min low forward reach?
15 inches
Ramps width should be?
36-48 inches with handrails grasping surface of 30 to 34 inches high
Falls result in?
premature death, physical injury, immobility, psychosocial dysfunction and nursing home placement.
True or False? 1/3 of community residing persons over 65 fall each year, 1/2 of these with multiple falls
True?
What are complications after fall?
Leading cause of death due to accidents or unintentional injury.
Obtaining fall history SLPAT?
Symptoms, previous falls, locations, activity of time
Fall diary
What are mobility exams for falls?
Gait, balance, ability to change position
What are the physical exam for falls?
Sensation, vision, hearing
Transient UI?
Sudden onset, resolves after cause is identified and treated
Persistent UI?
Urge, stress, mixed, overflow, functional
Stress UI?
Common in middle-age women
Cause by activity which causes an increase in abdominal pressure that put increase pressure on the bladder and pelvic floor
What may be cause of stress incontinence?
Incompetent urethra
Week pelvic muscle
Neurological dysfunction
Dystrophy
Urge UI?
Most common in older adults
Leakage of large amount of urine occur unexpectedly especially during sleep
Cause by detrusor muscle of the bladder contracting too often.
Contracting even if its not full.
Mixed incontinence?
Combination of stress and urge
Overflow incontinence?
Results from individual not fully emptying the bladder when toileting
Common causes: outlet obstruction (prostatic hyperplasia, fecal impaction, PN
