TEST BANK OF GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING: CHAPTER #1 – PRINCIPLES
OF GERONTOLOGY EXAM 2024/2025 WELL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
100% CORRECT ANSWERS|GRADED A+
Chapter 1 - ANSWER-Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - 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? - ANSWER-A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - 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? - ANSWER-Women usually live
alone after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - ANSWER-Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? - ANSWER-
Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - 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? - ANSWER-Health
is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - 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: - ANSWER-
psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and well being? -
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? - ANSWER-Hispanic
Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for understanding individuals and
their concerns was developed by who? - 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? - ANSWER-Fed a warm breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? - ANSWER-self-
actualization
Chapter 2 - ANSWER-Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Discuss the implications of a growing older adult population on nursing education, practice and research:
What type of care is projected to be the fastest growing employment sector in the health care industry?
- ANSWER-Eldercare
OF GERONTOLOGY EXAM 2024/2025 WELL UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
100% CORRECT ANSWERS|GRADED A+
Chapter 1 - ANSWER-Introduction to Healthy Aging
Identify three factors that influence the aging experience:
What are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? - 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? - ANSWER-A time frame as being old.
Aging depends on what? - 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? - ANSWER-Women usually live
alone after widowhood.
What are individuals who are 100-109 years old known as? - ANSWER-Centenarians
According to researchers, which characteristic will most centenarians share in the future? - ANSWER-
Female
Define health and wellness within the context of aging and chronic illness: - 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? - ANSWER-Health
is a broad term encompassing attitudes and behaviors
What does wellness involve? - 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: - ANSWER-
psychiatric screenings
Which describes the older man who is likely to experience the best overall health and well being? -
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? - ANSWER-Hispanic
Americans
The hierarchy of human needs that provides an organized framework for understanding individuals and
their concerns was developed by who? - 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? - ANSWER-Fed a warm breakfast
Which option refers to the highest level of human functioning according to Maslow? - ANSWER-self-
actualization
Chapter 2 - ANSWER-Gerontological Nursing history, education and roles
Discuss the implications of a growing older adult population on nursing education, practice and research:
What type of care is projected to be the fastest growing employment sector in the health care industry?
- ANSWER-Eldercare
