Adult And Elder Exam #1 With 100% Correct Answers 2024

Adult And Elder Exam #1 With 100% Correct Answers
2024
Common Health Issues Among Community Dwelling Adults
Poor Nutrition, Impaired mobility, stress and loss, depression, dementia, and delirium
3 D's
depression, dementia, delirium
polypharmacy
taking multiple medications due to multiple comorbid conditions
frailty
"a stage of age-related physiologic vulnerability, resulting from impaired homeostatic
reserve and a reduced capacity of the organism to withstand stress"
geriatric cascade
phenomenon of rapid decline resulting from frailty, acute illness, and stress of
institutional care, most often from acute hospitalization
Falls
-an unexpected event in which the participant comes to rest on the ground, floor, or
lower, level
-Not a normal part of aging
common causes of delerium
Drugs
Elimination
Liver and other Organs
Infection
Respiratory
Injury
Unfamiliar Environment
Metabolic
Delerium
acute condition
-reversible
Dementia
-chronic condition, syndrome
-not reversible
hypercapnia
excessive CO2 in the blood stream
hemoptysis
throwing up blood