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Test 1 Gerontics Flashcards

1
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What age is oldest-old?

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85+

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2
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What is classified as middle-old?

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76-84

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Consists of socially shared patterns of behaviors and belief that seek to relate humans to the superhuman

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Religion

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Stresses the person’s subjective perception and experience of someone or something greater than him/herself

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Spirituality

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5
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Context-specific control that is strongly associated with occupation

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Self-efficacy

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Demands of the environment (according to Lawton)

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Environmental Press

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Individual’s perception of physical and psychological well-being characterized by adequate physical capacity for accomplishment of desired activities, couple with overall satisfaction with one’s life situation

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Wellness

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An intervention approach that does not assume a disability is present or that any factors would interfere with performance

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Health promotion

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Approach type of OT in which the focus is on individuals at-risk for occupational performance problems

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Prevention

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The application of occupational science in the prevention of disease and disability and the promotion of health and well-being of individuals and communities through meaningful engagement in occupations

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Preventative Occupation

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Individuals who experience a sense of control over their circumstances

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Perceived control

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12
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What is most effective in promoting a sense of well-being and physical health?

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Problem-solving coping strategies

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Data collected to determine priorities and formulate an action plan

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Needs assessment

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Monitoring the program’s process, impact, and outcomes to determine its effectiveness

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Program evaluation

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The measure of one’s ability to distinguish details of objects in motion and should play a supplemental role in providing a better overall picture of functional visual acuity, strongest correlation to driving record of older adult

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Dynamic acuity

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16
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Ability to see a target when there is limited contrast between the target and the background

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Contrast sensitivity

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Ability to perceive the presence or movement of stimuli in the periphery beyond the area of immediate focus that constitutes one’s central vision

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Peripheral vision

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Responsible for coordinated use of extra-occular eye muscles necessary for binocular vision and the efficient performance of conjugate eye movements

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Oculomotor skills

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Monocular skill that allows one to judge distances away from the self and is important in driving to judge how close vehicle is to other vehicles

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Depth perception

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20
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Global attention broken down into what?

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Focused attention, sustained attention, selective attention

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Capacity for mental flexibility, enables one to shift the focus of attention and move between tasks having different cognitive requirements

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Alternating attention

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Allocation of attention to monitor stimuli simultaneously or performing multiple component tasks at the same time, highest level of skill

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Divided attention

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23
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Spatial area within which an individual can be quickly alerted to visual stimuli in a variety of situations

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Useful field of view

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24
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Ability to store and recall meaning

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Semantic memory

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Ability to learn rule-based or automatic behavioral sequences such as motor skills, conditioned responses, and perceptual-motor tasks

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Procedural memory

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26
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Ability to remember future intentions, reinforced through repetition

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Prospective memory

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27
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Calendar year aging

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Chronological aging

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28
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How old the body actually is aging term

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Biological aging

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29
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One’s cognitive/emotional aging

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Psychological aging

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30
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Aging according to expectations of society

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Social aging

31
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Why are men more likely to be older and married?

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Women live longer so more commonly widowed

32
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Age group most likely to live in poverty?

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Under 18

33
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Retirement age

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67

34
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Age group with lowest depression rates?

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60+

35
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Theory in which aging results from cellular changes?

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Biological

36
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Theory in which aging consists of mental function changes?

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Psychological

37
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Theory in which aging consists of changes in behaviors?

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Sociological

38
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The same activities are continued that were important in young adulthood (active when young, active when old)

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Activity theory

39
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Older adults disengage from activities as they prepare for death

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Disengagement theory

40
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Suggests people consider similar patterns of activity over time. (ex: young activities involve socializing so will older age activities)

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Continuity theory

41
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Theories that look at development over lifespan (Erinkson, Maslow)

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Lifespan theories

42
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Prevention and public health fund to support community-based health promotion and prevention

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Affordable Care Act

43
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What things were created from the Affordable Care Act?

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National prevention, health promotion, public health council

44
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Creating conditions that support health

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Health promotion

45
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More than a lack of disease; state of physical and mental balance

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Wellness

46
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Promoting healthy lifestyle

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Prevention

47
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Who is tier 1 for?

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All people

48
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Who is tier 2 for?

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Those at risk

49
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Who is tier 3 for?

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Those with a disability

50
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Who is primary prevention targeted at?

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Healthy people

51
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What is the target of secondary prevention?

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Detection and early intervention

52
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What does tertiary prevention target?

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Advanced stages of disease

53
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% of OTs in community based settings

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Less than 2%

54
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Common answer for greatest stressor?

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Boredom

55
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Common causes of falls?

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Malnutrition and dehydration

56
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How older adults learn

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Gerogogy

57
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Usually gerogogy is ________________

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Self-directed

58
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Older adults learn because they seek __________

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Self-fufillment

59
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Gerogogy involves a desire to _______

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Know

60
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Older adult learners are ________ motivated?

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Internally

61
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Cole’s 7 steps?

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Intro, activity, sharing, processing, generalizing, application, summary

62
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What snack should be avoided at the wellness session and why?

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Carbs, many are diabetic… Also avoid saturated fats

63
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Age-related cognitive changes are normal, but ____ is not?

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Dementia

64
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Age associated decline is expected by when?

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6th decade of life

65
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__________ of cognitive performance= greater in older adults than any other age group

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Range

66
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Processing of perceptual information slows with advancing age

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Cognitive slowing

67
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Adapting to and using new information

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Fluid intelligence

68
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Practical skills and knowledge of an individual (automatic)

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Crystallized intelligence

69
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Why is ST memory impaired in older adults?

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Attention is impaired and attention is required for memory (LTMs are already stored but not STMs)

70
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Links attention and formation of lasting memory tracks (storage and processing)

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Working memory

71
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Secondary memory

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Long term memory

72
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Difficulties with this may be cause of poor secondary memory

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Encoding

73
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What’s a good way to encode memories?

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Restore them (pictures)

74
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Cognitive declines may be related to declines in environmental stimulation that requires problem solving

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Disuse theory

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