Final Exam

Question 1

How many symptoms do you need to have to be considered a dx of depression?

Answer 1

5 for more than 2 weeks

Question 2

Depression is the most common psychiatric syndrome for older adults. True of false?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What are the rates of subsyndromal depression?

Answer 3

15 to 15%

Question 4

True or False? Depression is less prevalent among older adults compared to younger adults?

Answer 4

Ture

Question 5

What are types of physical restraints?

Answer 5

Vest with straps, waist belts soft or hard lab trays

Question 6

Level I violence involving elder adults

Answer 6

Self-mistreatment, elder mistreatment, crime by stranger

Question 7

Level II relationship between victim and perpetrator

Answer 7

Personal/social relationship, professional/business relationship

Question 8

Level III How the destructive behavior is carried out?

Answer 8

Neglect, abuse

Question 9

Level IV: Purpose motivating the destructive behavior

Answer 9

Intentional, unintentional

Question 10

Level V: the specific type of destructive behavior

Answer 10

Physical, social, psychological financial

Question 11

What is accessible design?

Answer 11

Meets prescribed code requirements for use by people with disabilities.

Question 12

What is adaptable design?

Answer 12

Making modification to a standard design by adding on.

A home that allows for future modifications and constomization with little cost

Question 13

What is transgenerational or life span design?

Answer 13

Considers changes as on ages. Not specific to illness.

Question 14

Universal design?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Toilet hight?

Answer 15

17-19 inches

Question 16

Clear space fro 180 degree w/c turn

Answer 16

60 inches diameter

Question 17

Maximum slope of ramp?

Answer 17

1:12

Question 18

minimum clear width ?

Answer 18

36 inches

Question 19

Thresholds?

Answer 19

Exterior 3/4 interior 1/2 inch

Question 20

Max high forward reach ?

Answer 20

48 inches

Question 21

Min low forward reach?

Answer 21

15 inches

Question 22

Ramps width should be?

Answer 22

36-48 inches with handrails grasping surface of 30 to 34 inches high

Question 23

Falls result in?

Answer 23

premature death, physical injury, immobility, psychosocial dysfunction and nursing home placement.

Question 24

True or False? 1/3 of community residing persons over 65 fall each year, 1/2 of these with multiple falls

Answer 24

True?

Question 25

What are complications after fall?

Answer 25

Leading cause of death due to accidents or unintentional injury.

Question 26

Obtaining fall history SLPAT?

Answer 26

Symptoms, previous falls, locations, activity of time

Fall diary

Question 27

What are mobility exams for falls?

Answer 27

Gait, balance, ability to change position

Question 28

What are the physical exam for falls?

Answer 28

Sensation, vision, hearing

Question 29

Transient UI?

Answer 29

Sudden onset, resolves after cause is identified and treated

Question 30

Persistent UI?

Answer 30

Urge, stress, mixed, overflow, functional

Question 31

Stress UI?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What may be cause of stress incontinence?

Answer 32

Incompetent urethra
Week pelvic muscle
Neurological dysfunction
Dystrophy

Question 33

Urge UI?

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

Mixed incontinence?

Answer 34

Combination of stress and urge

Question 35

Overflow incontinence?

Answer 35

Results from individual not fully emptying the bladder when toileting
Common causes: outlet obstruction (prostatic hyperplasia, fecal impaction, PN