Gero 7 Flashcards
Presbyopia
Presbyopia is the gradual loss of your eyes’ ability to focus on nearby objects. It’s a natural, often annoying part of aging. Presbyopia usually becomes noticeable in your early to mid-40s and continues to worsen until around age 65.
Presbyosmia
The diminution or loss of the sense of smell associated with aging.
Venous ulcers
Venous ulcers are due to abnormal vein function. People may inherit a tendency for abnormal veins. Common causes of damaged veins include blood clots, injury, aging, and obesity. Symptoms include swelling, achiness, and tiredness in the legs. Usually a red, irritated skin rash develops into an open wound. Treatment includes leg elevation, compression, and wound care. Sometimes surgery is needed.
Pruritis
Pruritis is itchy skin that makes you want to scratch. It can be caused by many things. Normally, itchy skin isn’t serious, but it can make you uncomfortable. Sometimes, itchy skin is caused by a serious medical condition. It could be a sign of an underlying condition such as iron deficiency, lymphoma, thyroid issues, liver or kidney function.
Psychological age
how old one feels, acts, and behaves, and is thus not necessarily equal to chronological age, which is age since birth [1]. A person can therefore have a psychological age that exceeds their chronological age if they are mature or at least feel older than they really are.
Publicly-Assisted Housing
Federal housing programs assist low income older persons to live in congregate settings. (Section 202, section 8)
Pulbic Housing
Federal housing programs assist low-income older persons to live in a congregate setting. (Section 202, section 8, public housing buildings
Public transportation
Transportation services for which all persons are eligible, Public transportation can be provided on a regular schedule through fixed and semi-fixed routes, or by appointment.
Qualitative research
Primarily exploratory research. It is used to gain an understanding of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations. It provides insights into the problem or helps to develop ideas or hypotheses for potential quantitative research.
Quantitative research
Quantitative research is a structured way of collecting and analyzing data obtained from different sources. Quantitative research involves the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical tools to derive results. It is conclusive in its purpose as it tries to quantify the problem and understand how prevalent it is by looking for projectable results to a larger population.
Quasi independent variable
Variable whose characteristics are present and cannot be changed or manipulated by the researchers. The characteristics were pre-assigned before the participant came to the study. Ex: gender on the role of caregiver or spouse of caregiver
Range
Measure or variability; identifies the difference between the highest and lowest scores in the distribution
Random sampling
Random sampling is a part of the sampling technique in which each sample has an equal probability of being chosen. A sample chosen randomly is meant to be an unbiased representation of the total population. If for some reasons, the sample does not represent the population, the variation is called a sampling error.
Randomized clinical trial
Gold standard for clinical trial. A Randomized Controlled Trial is an experiment or study conducted in such a way that as many sources of bias as possible are removed from the process. Basically, scientific errors of the past have taught us where we can go wrong, drawing false conclusions from our research. RCTs are designed to eliminate these major errors.
Rate of living concept
The concept that metabolism and life expectancy are closely related. Smaller organisms, which have faster metabolisms, also have shorter life expectancies.
