Gerontological Nursing Exam #1 |2026 latest upload |graded A+
Chapter 1 - correct answer-Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - correct answer-Health,
History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by setting the
retirement age at 65 years? - correct answer-A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - correct answer-- Decade during which one was born or his or her
history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - correct answer-
Women usually live alone after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - correct answer-Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? -
correct answer-Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - correct
answer-Health: influenced by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
, In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is true? -
correct answer-Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - correct answer-Wellness involves achieving a balance
between one's internal and external environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social,
cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following except: -
correct answer-psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and
wellbeing? - correct answer-Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends
weekly baseball games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to have
the fastest growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010 and 2050? -
correct answer-Hispanic Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for understanding
individuals and their concerns was developed by who? - correct answer-Abraham Maslow
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological nursing: A client's basic needs have
been met when they have been what? - correct answer-Fed a warm breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? -
correct answer-self-actualization
Chapter 2 - correct answer-Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Chapter 1 - correct answer-Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - correct answer-Health,
History and sex
Aging Cohort: When established in 1935, what effect did Social Security have by setting the
retirement age at 65 years? - correct answer-A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - correct answer-- Decade during which one was born or his or her
history
- sex
-ethnic group
-health history
What types of effects does gender have on various aspects of aging? - correct answer-
Women usually live alone after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - correct answer-Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? -
correct answer-Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - correct
answer-Health: influenced by culture and age
Wellness: one's whole being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
, In differentiating between health and wellness in health care, which statement is true? -
correct answer-Health is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - correct answer-Wellness involves achieving a balance
between one's internal and external environment and one's emotional, spiritual, social,
cultural, and physical processes.
Examples of interventions to promote wellness would include all of the following except: -
correct answer-psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and
wellbeing? - correct answer-Uses a wheelchair, has peripheral arterial disease, attends
weekly baseball games with three friends.
Describe the trends seen in global aging today: which cultural group is predicted to have
the fastest growing older adult population in the US between the years 2010 and 2050? -
correct answer-Hispanic Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for understanding
individuals and their concerns was developed by who? - correct answer-Abraham Maslow
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to gerontological nursing: A client's basic needs have
been met when they have been what? - correct answer-Fed a warm breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? -
correct answer-self-actualization
Chapter 2 - correct answer-Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
