Unit 1: Attributes of functional abilities

Question 1

What are attributes? (3)

Answer 1

• defining characteristics (often culturally defined)
• The capacity to perform an activity
• The actual or required performance of an activity

Question 2

What are antecedents?

Answer 2

• What the person must have in order to achieve the activity

Question 3

What are 2 examples of antecedents?

Answer 3

• development of physiological processes
• acquisition of developmental milestones

Question 4

What is the definition of an older adult? (2)

Answer 4

• complex and unique
• knowing a chronological age does not describe the older adult, the experience of aging involves the interaction of internal and external factors

Question 5

what are Age-related changes? (2)

Answer 5

• physiological changes that are inevitable, irreversible, are not related to pathological conditions
• psychological and spiritual changes offer opportunities for increasingly fulfilling life

Question 6

what are risk factors?

Answer 6

• conditions that increase the risk of the older adult negative health outcomes or decrea

Question 7

what are some examples of risk factors? (4)

Answer 7

• diseases
• environment
• lifestyle
• adverse medication side effects

Question 8

What is the definition of function?

Answer 8

• the neutral or positive interaction between the persons health and the performance of social and physical activities

Question 9

What is the definition of disability?

Answer 9

The negative aspects of the persons health and social and environmental condition that is determining performance of the individual

Question 10

what is the definition of impairment?

Answer 10

Refers to the physical abnormality that underlies the limitation

Question 11

What is the impact of ageism on functional ability?

Answer 11

• ageism increases the risk for less than optimal functional ability

Question 12

What is the definition of ageism? (2)

Answer 12

• prejudices and stereotypes that are applied to other people sheerly on the basis of their age
• it doesn’t allow individuals to live their unique way of life

Question 13

Ageism refers to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
Stereotypes are how we ___.
Prejudice is how we ____.
Discrimination is how we ____.

Answer 13

• stereotypes are how we think
• prejudice is how we feel
• discrimination is how we act
  directed towards people on the basis of their age

Question 14

what are the three types of ageism that are intertwined and mutually reinforcing?

Answer 14

Self-directed, interpersonal, and institutional

Question 15

what are the determinants of ageism? (3)

Answer 15

1. Being young
2. Being anxious about death increases the risk of being ageist
3. Intergenerational experience reduces the risk of being ageist

Question 16

what are the factors that increase the risk of being a target? (3)

Answer 16

• being care-dependent
• Working in high-tech or in the hospital sector
• younger females at risk for ageism

Question 17

see page 44 for stereotypes

Answer 17

rich/poor
religious
unable to use apps