NURSING FOR WELLNESS FOR OLDER
ADULTS-EXAM 1 (ANSWERED) 100%
CORRECT. 105 Q&A.
What does older adults need?
-Accurate information
-Interventions to promote wellness during all stages of health and illness
What is the intent of Gerontological Nursing text?
-To provide comprehensive and research-based information so that nurses can distinguish between the
changes associated with normal aging and those that result from risk factors.
What can nurses do for older adults?
-Promote wellness which includes:
1.) Improved health
2.)Improved Functioning
3.) Improved Quality of Life
Who brought the concept of wellness in relation to aging and talked about high-level wellness on the
radio?
-Halbert L. Dunn, MD, PhD
High-level wellness
-integrated method of functioning that is oriented toward maximizing each person's potential, while
maintaining a continuum of balance and purposeful direction within the person's environment.
What did Halbert L. Dunn addressed?
-Stereotypes about aging and emphasized that "Healthy maturity" is characterized not only by physical
decline but also by wisdom.
-Discussed the relationship between mind, body, and spirit and stressed the importance of older adults
having a purpose in life, communicating with others, maintaining personal dignity, and contributing to
society.
What are the barriers in promoting wellness in older adults?
- Older adults may be pessimistic about their ability to improve their health and functioning.
-Survival needs and a multitude of health problems may take precedence over the "luxury" of being able
to focus on wellness and quality of life.
,-Despite the increasing emphasis on wellness and health promotion, health care environments focus
more on treating diseases than on preventing illness and addressing whole-person needs.
-Often older adults and health care providers mistakenly attribute symptoms to aging rather than
identify and address the contributing factors that are reversible and treatable.
-Health care providers may not believe that older adults area capable of learning and implementing
health-promoting behaviors that are inherent in wellness-oriented care.
What is the major focus of a "wellness approach" to older adult?
-Addressing the body-mind-spirit interconnectedness of each older adult as a unique and respected
individual.
What are some nursing actions that promote wellness for older adults?
-Addressing the body-mind-spirit interrelatedness of each older adult.
-Identifying and challenging ageist attitudes (including their own), especially those that interfere with
optimal health care.
-Assessing each older adult from a whole-person perspective.
-Incorporating wellness nursing diagnoses as routing part of care.
-Planning for wellness outcomes, which are directed toward improved health, functioning, and quality of
life.
-Using nursing interventions to address conditions that interfere with optimal functioning (including lack
of accurate information about aging)
-Recognizing each older adult's potential for improved health and functioning as well as psychological
and spiritual growth.
-Teaching about self-care behaviors to improve health and functioning (or teaching caregivers of
dependent older adults)
What is aging?
Is a universal process that begins at birth; it applies equally to young and old people.
Children views on aging
-They are delight in announcing how old they are, and they anticipate birthdays with great enthusiasm.
-They view their birthdays as positive events that will permit them to enjoy additional opportunities and
responsibilities.
Adolescents views on aging
, -They view aging as the mechanism that allows them to participate legally in important activities, such as
driving and voting.
Adults views on aging
-They view "old age" as something to be avoided and they are likely to define the onset of older
adulthood as a decade beyond their current age.
Subjective age (feel age or age identity)
-Describes a person's perception of his or her age.
-how old the person feels, how the person categorizes himself or herself in age groups, and how one
sees oneself relative to one's younger self and relative to other people.
Chronologic age
-As the length of time that has passed since birth.
Advantages of Chronologic age:
-It serves as an objective basis for social organization
EX: age criteria for certain activities such as voting, education, driving, marriage, employment, alcohol
consumption, military services, and the collection of retirement benefits.
What does gerontologists tended to view during the 1960's?
-They tended to view 65 years of age as an acceptable chronologic criterion at which aging process begin
to occur.
Important indicators of age
-Physiologic health
-Psychological well-being
-Socioeconomic factors
-The ability to function
-Participate in desirable activities
Functional age
-measure of a person's ability to function effectively in his or her physical and social environment in
comparison with others of the same chronological age
Components of optimal functionality
-Body related factors: health, activity, autonomy, physical ability
-Self-related factors: psychological aspects, capability aspects
-External factors: social interactions, environmental aspects.
Advantage of Functional definitions of age
ADULTS-EXAM 1 (ANSWERED) 100%
CORRECT. 105 Q&A.
What does older adults need?
-Accurate information
-Interventions to promote wellness during all stages of health and illness
What is the intent of Gerontological Nursing text?
-To provide comprehensive and research-based information so that nurses can distinguish between the
changes associated with normal aging and those that result from risk factors.
What can nurses do for older adults?
-Promote wellness which includes:
1.) Improved health
2.)Improved Functioning
3.) Improved Quality of Life
Who brought the concept of wellness in relation to aging and talked about high-level wellness on the
radio?
-Halbert L. Dunn, MD, PhD
High-level wellness
-integrated method of functioning that is oriented toward maximizing each person's potential, while
maintaining a continuum of balance and purposeful direction within the person's environment.
What did Halbert L. Dunn addressed?
-Stereotypes about aging and emphasized that "Healthy maturity" is characterized not only by physical
decline but also by wisdom.
-Discussed the relationship between mind, body, and spirit and stressed the importance of older adults
having a purpose in life, communicating with others, maintaining personal dignity, and contributing to
society.
What are the barriers in promoting wellness in older adults?
- Older adults may be pessimistic about their ability to improve their health and functioning.
-Survival needs and a multitude of health problems may take precedence over the "luxury" of being able
to focus on wellness and quality of life.
,-Despite the increasing emphasis on wellness and health promotion, health care environments focus
more on treating diseases than on preventing illness and addressing whole-person needs.
-Often older adults and health care providers mistakenly attribute symptoms to aging rather than
identify and address the contributing factors that are reversible and treatable.
-Health care providers may not believe that older adults area capable of learning and implementing
health-promoting behaviors that are inherent in wellness-oriented care.
What is the major focus of a "wellness approach" to older adult?
-Addressing the body-mind-spirit interconnectedness of each older adult as a unique and respected
individual.
What are some nursing actions that promote wellness for older adults?
-Addressing the body-mind-spirit interrelatedness of each older adult.
-Identifying and challenging ageist attitudes (including their own), especially those that interfere with
optimal health care.
-Assessing each older adult from a whole-person perspective.
-Incorporating wellness nursing diagnoses as routing part of care.
-Planning for wellness outcomes, which are directed toward improved health, functioning, and quality of
life.
-Using nursing interventions to address conditions that interfere with optimal functioning (including lack
of accurate information about aging)
-Recognizing each older adult's potential for improved health and functioning as well as psychological
and spiritual growth.
-Teaching about self-care behaviors to improve health and functioning (or teaching caregivers of
dependent older adults)
What is aging?
Is a universal process that begins at birth; it applies equally to young and old people.
Children views on aging
-They are delight in announcing how old they are, and they anticipate birthdays with great enthusiasm.
-They view their birthdays as positive events that will permit them to enjoy additional opportunities and
responsibilities.
Adolescents views on aging
, -They view aging as the mechanism that allows them to participate legally in important activities, such as
driving and voting.
Adults views on aging
-They view "old age" as something to be avoided and they are likely to define the onset of older
adulthood as a decade beyond their current age.
Subjective age (feel age or age identity)
-Describes a person's perception of his or her age.
-how old the person feels, how the person categorizes himself or herself in age groups, and how one
sees oneself relative to one's younger self and relative to other people.
Chronologic age
-As the length of time that has passed since birth.
Advantages of Chronologic age:
-It serves as an objective basis for social organization
EX: age criteria for certain activities such as voting, education, driving, marriage, employment, alcohol
consumption, military services, and the collection of retirement benefits.
What does gerontologists tended to view during the 1960's?
-They tended to view 65 years of age as an acceptable chronologic criterion at which aging process begin
to occur.
Important indicators of age
-Physiologic health
-Psychological well-being
-Socioeconomic factors
-The ability to function
-Participate in desirable activities
Functional age
-measure of a person's ability to function effectively in his or her physical and social environment in
comparison with others of the same chronological age
Components of optimal functionality
-Body related factors: health, activity, autonomy, physical ability
-Self-related factors: psychological aspects, capability aspects
-External factors: social interactions, environmental aspects.
Advantage of Functional definitions of age
