Test Bank: Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing
Response 11th Edition by Touhy - Ch. 1-35, 9780323809887,
with Rationales
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
Response 11th Edition by Touhy - Ch. 1-35, 9780323809887,
with Rationales
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
