WEEK 4 Flashcards
helps prevent functional decline.
DISEASE PREVENTION
designed to completely prevent a disease from occuring.
PRIMARY PREVENTION
early detection and management of disease.
SECONDARY PREVENTION
manage clinical disease in order to prevent them from progressing or to avoid complications of the disease.
TERTIARY PREVENTION
how a person rates his or her life as satisfactory or not.
QUALITY OF LIFE
functional ability, strength/fatigue, sleep/rest, nausea, appetite, and constipation.
PHYSICAL WELL BEING
anxiety, depression, enjoyment, leisure, pain distress, happiness, fear, cognition/attention.
PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING
caregiver burden, roles and relationship, affection/sexual function, appearance.
SOCIAL WELL BEING
suffering, meaning of pain, religiosity, transcendence.
SPIRITUAL WELL BEING
integrated health and quality of life program. Optimizing opportunities for health, participation in the community and
safe living in order to enhance quality of life.
ACTIVE AGING
contributes to muscle strength, flexibility, balance, cardiovascular health and positive mood and improves cognition.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
powerful and modifiable lifestyle factors.
NUTRITION
single most important preventable risk factors that cause Premature Death.
SMOKING
5 A’s
ASK, ADVISE, ASSESS, ASSIST, ARRANGE.
elderly have the increase effects of alcohol because of pharmacologic changes associated with aging.
ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
consists of multiple health and social services delivered to recovering, chronically ill, or disable individuals of all ages in their place of residence.
HOME HEALTH CARE
is the final phase in the trajectory of a chronic illness.
DYING
short-term relief or time off for persons providing home care to ill, disabled, or frail older adults.
RESPITE CARE
provide a variety of health and social services to older adults who live alone or with their families in the community.
ADULT DAY CARE PROGRAMS
are community facilities that provide a broad range of services to older adults in the community.
SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERS
are community facilities that provide a broad range of services to older adults in the community.
SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERS
include such things as
house cleaning, laundry, food shopping, meal preparation, and running errands.
HOMEMAKER PROGRAMS
Nutrition services provide older adults with inexpensive, nutritious meals at home, or in group settings.
HOME-DELIVERED MEALS
many communities provide transportation services for disabled older adults through public or private agencies.
TRANSPORTATION
Term used to describe an individual’s ability to perform the normal, expected, or required activities for self-care.
FUNCTIONAL STATUS
assess cognitive impairment which affects an individual’s functional status.
COGNITIVE FUNCTION
This is a self- contained apartment unit within a house that allows an individual to live independently without living alone.
ACCESSORY APARTMENT
This is a rental housing arrangement that provides room, meals, utilities, and laundry and housekeeping services for a group of residents.
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY/ BOARD AND CARE HOME
was authorized in 1970 by the housing and Urban Development Act. It is a group-living arrangement, usually an apartment complex, that provides tenants.
CONGREGATE HOUSING
This is a small, self-contained portable unit that can be placed in the backyard or at the side of a single-family dwelling.
ELDER COTTAGE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
It is a social service administered by the state that places an older person who needs some protective oversight or a assistance with personal care in a family environment.
FOSTER HOME CARE
involves two or more unrelated people living together in a house or apartment.
HOME SHARING
This is facility designed to support the concept of “aging in place”.
LIFE CARE OR CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
is a home for the aged in the Philippines serving to provide true home to all abandoned,
poor, sick and homeless elderly in the country.
KANLUNGAN NI MARIA HOME FOR THE AGED
a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week assessment/diagnostic and residential care facility that provides residential care to abandoned, neglected, unattached and homeless Filipino Senior Citizen who are 60 years old.
GOLDEN RECEPTION AND ACTION CENTER FOR THE ELDERLY AND OTHER SPECIAL CASES
is a shelter for the homeless, old and sickly people who have been given up by their families for a lot of reasons.
EMMAUS HOUSE OF APOSTOLATE
provides assessment, observation, teaching, certain technical skills and personal care for short- period of time.
FORMAL SERVICES
include senior citizen centers, adult care services, nutrition services, transportation services, and telephone monitoring services.
INFORMAL SERVICES
are an increasingly attractive long-term care setting, placed between home care and the nursing facility in the continuum of long-term care.
ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMS
is the designation given to freestanding facilities or units within nursing facilities that specialize in the care of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementing illnesses.
SPECIAL CARE UNITS
Patients in this care are stable and no longer acutely ill or requiring daily physician visits. They may require services such as rehabilitation, intravenous medication therapy, parenteral nutrition, complex respiratory care, and wound management.
SUBACUTE CARE
one of the most common problems of aging and can result in itching (pruritus), burning, and cracking of the skin.
DRY SKIN
a particular risk to older adults who suffer from compromised circulation, restricted mobility, altered level of consciousness, fecal or urinary incontinence, or nutritional problems.
PRESSURE ULCERS
a natural, periodically recurring, physiologic state of rest for the body and mind; sleep is a state of inactivity or response that is required to remain active.
SLEEP
an organized pattern of
perceived characteristics, along with the values
attached to those attributes.
SELF-CONCEPT
affect person’s personality
(wrong self-perception may lead to psychological
problems)
SELF-PERCEPTION
inability to fall sleep, difficulty staying asleep, or premature waking
INSOMNIA
pertains to whole persons; body, mind, and spirit.
HOLISTIC
painful intercourse sufficient to engage in sexual intercourse.
DYSPAREUNIA
the inability to attain and maintain an erection of the penis.
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
