Jersey College - Geriatrics 2025 updated
questions well answered to pass
Gerontologic Clinical Nurse Specialist - correct answer ✔✔Master's prepared RN who functions as
clinician, educator, consultant, administrator, or researcher.
Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - correct answer ✔✔Practice in various settings and
function as a provider of primary care and a case manager.
Gerontologic Nursing - correct answer ✔✔nursing specialty concerned with the care of the older adult
Gerontic Nursing - correct answer ✔✔emphasizes nurturing, caring, and comforting more than
treatment of disease.
Reasons for an increase in elderly population. - correct answer ✔✔Falling fertility rates, reduced infant
and child mortality, improved sanitation, vaccinations, increasing survival at older ages.
Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social interaction. - correct answer ✔✔Why is marital status an
important determinant of health and well being?
Functional independence with consideration for safety and social interaction. - correct answer
✔✔Housing should promote..
Low level of education Impairments - correct answer ✔✔This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
,Social Security - correct answer ✔✔The major income source for older individuals and couples in 2014.
75% - correct answer ✔✔What percentage of all deaths are caused by: heart disease, lung cancer, COPD,
accidents, strokes, alzheimers, diabetes, kidney disease, flu/pneu, and suicide.
Functional Ability - correct answer ✔✔The capacity to carry out the basic self-care activities that ensure
overall health and well-being.
Medicare Part A - correct answer ✔✔The part of the Medicare program that pays for hospitalization,
care in a skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice care.
Medicare Part B - correct answer ✔✔The part of the Medicare program that pays for physician services,
outpatient hospital services, durable medical equipment, and other services and supplies.
Medicare Part C - correct answer ✔✔Managed care health plans offered to medicare beneficiaries under
the medicare advantage program.
Acute Care Setting - correct answer ✔✔Used for acute conditions and do not do well in preventing
functional decline or prompting independence.
Subacute Care Units - correct answer ✔✔Aimed at high-risk, hospitalized older adults, bridge between
hospital and home.
Theories - correct answer ✔✔Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
Provides a sense of order
Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
, Human Aging - correct answer ✔✔This is influenced by a composite of biologic, psychologic, social,
functional and spiritual factors.
Process that begins at conception.
Biologic Theories of Aging - correct answer ✔✔Concerned with answering basic questions regarding
physiologic processes that occur in all living organisms over time.
Deleterious effects leading to decreasing function of the organism, gradually occurring age related
changes that progress over time, intrinsic changes that may affect all members of a species of
chronologic age.
Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory - correct answer ✔✔Free radicals are byproducts of fundamental
metabolic activities within the body. Increased by pollutants (ozone and pesticides.)
Neutralized by enzymatic activity or natural antioxidants, but if they are not neutralized, they may cause
cell damage.
Administration of antioxidants postpones the appearance of diseases such as cardiovascular disease and
cancer and can influence the decline of the immune system and on degenerative neurologic diseases.
Vitamin E/C can inhibits functions of free radicals.
Cross-Linkage Theory - correct answer ✔✔With age, some proteins become increasingly cross-linked or
enmeshed and may impede metabolic processes by obstructing the passage of nutrients and wastes
between the IC and EC compartments.
As a person ages and the immune system becomes less efficient, the body's defense mech cannot
remove the cross linking agent before it becomes securely established.
Cross linkage has been proposed as a primary cause of arteriosclerosis, decrease in the efficiency of the
immune system and the loss of elasticity often seen in older adult skin.
questions well answered to pass
Gerontologic Clinical Nurse Specialist - correct answer ✔✔Master's prepared RN who functions as
clinician, educator, consultant, administrator, or researcher.
Adult Gerontologic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - correct answer ✔✔Practice in various settings and
function as a provider of primary care and a case manager.
Gerontologic Nursing - correct answer ✔✔nursing specialty concerned with the care of the older adult
Gerontic Nursing - correct answer ✔✔emphasizes nurturing, caring, and comforting more than
treatment of disease.
Reasons for an increase in elderly population. - correct answer ✔✔Falling fertility rates, reduced infant
and child mortality, improved sanitation, vaccinations, increasing survival at older ages.
Income, mobility, housing, intimacy and social interaction. - correct answer ✔✔Why is marital status an
important determinant of health and well being?
Functional independence with consideration for safety and social interaction. - correct answer
✔✔Housing should promote..
Low level of education Impairments - correct answer ✔✔This can impair...
A healthy lifestyle
Access to benefit programs
Recognizing health problems and seeking care
Following recommendations for care
,Social Security - correct answer ✔✔The major income source for older individuals and couples in 2014.
75% - correct answer ✔✔What percentage of all deaths are caused by: heart disease, lung cancer, COPD,
accidents, strokes, alzheimers, diabetes, kidney disease, flu/pneu, and suicide.
Functional Ability - correct answer ✔✔The capacity to carry out the basic self-care activities that ensure
overall health and well-being.
Medicare Part A - correct answer ✔✔The part of the Medicare program that pays for hospitalization,
care in a skilled nursing facility, home health care, and hospice care.
Medicare Part B - correct answer ✔✔The part of the Medicare program that pays for physician services,
outpatient hospital services, durable medical equipment, and other services and supplies.
Medicare Part C - correct answer ✔✔Managed care health plans offered to medicare beneficiaries under
the medicare advantage program.
Acute Care Setting - correct answer ✔✔Used for acute conditions and do not do well in preventing
functional decline or prompting independence.
Subacute Care Units - correct answer ✔✔Aimed at high-risk, hospitalized older adults, bridge between
hospital and home.
Theories - correct answer ✔✔Purpose of __________
Helps make sense of a particular phenomenon
Provides a sense of order
Gives a perspective from which to view the facts
Provides a spring board for discussion and research
, Human Aging - correct answer ✔✔This is influenced by a composite of biologic, psychologic, social,
functional and spiritual factors.
Process that begins at conception.
Biologic Theories of Aging - correct answer ✔✔Concerned with answering basic questions regarding
physiologic processes that occur in all living organisms over time.
Deleterious effects leading to decreasing function of the organism, gradually occurring age related
changes that progress over time, intrinsic changes that may affect all members of a species of
chronologic age.
Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory - correct answer ✔✔Free radicals are byproducts of fundamental
metabolic activities within the body. Increased by pollutants (ozone and pesticides.)
Neutralized by enzymatic activity or natural antioxidants, but if they are not neutralized, they may cause
cell damage.
Administration of antioxidants postpones the appearance of diseases such as cardiovascular disease and
cancer and can influence the decline of the immune system and on degenerative neurologic diseases.
Vitamin E/C can inhibits functions of free radicals.
Cross-Linkage Theory - correct answer ✔✔With age, some proteins become increasingly cross-linked or
enmeshed and may impede metabolic processes by obstructing the passage of nutrients and wastes
between the IC and EC compartments.
As a person ages and the immune system becomes less efficient, the body's defense mech cannot
remove the cross linking agent before it becomes securely established.
Cross linkage has been proposed as a primary cause of arteriosclerosis, decrease in the efficiency of the
immune system and the loss of elasticity often seen in older adult skin.
