Geriatrics Quiz 1 Flashcards
Geriatrics stands at the intersection of three forces, what are those three forces?
- Gerontology (both basic and applied)
- Chronic disease management, especially multimorbidities
- End of life care
What do the principles of gerontology help to explain?
The insights of geriatric care.
Ex- the presentation of a disease is often different in the elderly because the response to stress is different.
What is a hallmark of aging?
The decreased ability to respond to stress
What typically generates the symptoms of an illness?
The body’s stress response
What is the emphasis in care planning of the geriatric patient directed at?
Containing the disease
Maintaining function
Improving the quality of life
What has one compromise that has been made for geriatric care?
The evolution of palliative care
What combination of factors is said to be the difference in care of the elderly compared to care of younger patients?
Biological changes that occur during the course of aging.
Associated diseases
Attitudes and beliefs of older adults and their caregivers.
What is the time-sequential deterioration that occurs in most living beings, including weakness, increased susceptibility to disease and adverse environmental conditions, loss of mobility and agility, and age-related physiological changes?
Aging
How is aging defined?
The time-sequential deterioration that occurs in most living beings, including weakness, increased susceptibility to disease and adverse environmental conditions, loss of mobility and agility, and age-related physiological changes
What is life expectancy?
The proportion of possible maximum age a person may live
What is life span?
A biological limit to how many years a species can expect to survive.
What does geriatrics have the most to contribute to? Improving lifespan or life expectancy?
In general improving life expectancy, but new geriatric breakthroughs may ultimately affect life span as well.
What is chronological aging?
Age measured by the time that something or someone has existed.
What is gerontological aging?
Calculated on the basis of the risk of dying, the so-called force of mortality.
Can two people of the same chronological age have biologically very different ages depending on their state of health?
Yes