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UNIT 3 Flashcards

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mortality rate

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  • probability of dying in any one year
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morbidity rate

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  • illness rate
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acute conditions

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  • short-term health disorders
  • younger adults
  • colds, flu, infections, or short-term intestinal upsets
  • develop over a shrot period of time
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chronic conditions

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  • long-term health disorders
  • age-related increase
  • older adults
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disability

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  • unable to perform everyday tasks (ADLs) and more complex tasks (IADLs)
  • the effect of chronic conditions on people’s ability to engage in necessary activities
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ADLs (activities of daily living)

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  • basic self-care activities
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IADLs (instrumental activities fo daily living)

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  • complex everyday tasks
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community dwelling

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  • living in one’s own home either with a spouse or alone
  • 81% women
    90% men
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cardiovascular disease

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  • disorder of the heart and blood vessels that occurs more frequently with age
  • coronary arteries
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plaques

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  • fat-laden deposits formed in the coronary artery walls as a result of inflammation
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atherosclerosis

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  • process by which plaques form in the artery walls
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cancer

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  • disease in which abnormal cells undergo rapidly accelerated, uncontrolled division and later move into adjacent normal tissues
  • second leading cause
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epigenetic inheritance

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  • process in which the genes one receives at conception are modified by subsequent environmental events that occur during the prenatal period and throughout the lifespan
  • downregulate one gene
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human papillomavirus (HPV)

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  • which reduces chances of cervical cancer, adn the hepatitis B vaccine, which helps prevent liver cancer
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diabetes

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  • disease in which the body is not able to metabolize insulin
  • type 1: onset in childhood
  • type 2: older people
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Alzheimer’s disease

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  • progressive, incurable deterioration of key areas of the brain
  • short term memory
  • degeneration of the cerebral cortex
  • progression is faster with early onset
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dementia

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  • category of various types of brain damage and disease that involves significant impairment of memory, judgement, social functioning, adn control of emotions
  • decline in intellectual ability that interferes with work and social life
  • impaired memory, judgement abstract thinking, language
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senile plaque

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  • small, circular deposits of dense protein
  • beta amyloid
  • causes Alzheimer’s disease
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neurofibrillary tangles

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  • webs of degenerating neurons
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mild cognitive impairment

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  • condition in which patients show some cognitive symptoms, but not all those necessary for a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
  • pre-alzheimer
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traumatic brain injury TBI

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  • head injury severe enough to result in loss of consciousness
  • increase risk of dementia, especially chronic traumatic encephalopathy
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chronic traumatic encephalopathy CTE

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  • type of dementia that has increased prevalence for individuals who have suffered TBI
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onset

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  • first occurrence
  • mental illness
  • adolescence and early adulthood
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prevalence

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  • proportion of people experiencing a certain disorder at a given time
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comorbid

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  • relationship of two or more health disorders that occur in an individual at the same time
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anxiety disorders

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  • category of mental health disorders that involves feelings of fear, threat, and dread with no obvious danger is present
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phobias

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  • anxiety disorder that involves fears and avoidance out of proportion to the danger presented
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posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD

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  • psychological response to a traumatic experience
  • symptoms include reexperiencing the event in intrusive thoughts and dreams, numbing of general responses, avoiding stimuli, and increased arousal of physiological stress mechanisms
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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  • anxiety disorder that involves guild and anxiety over certain thoughts or impulses
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mood disorder

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  • category of mental health disorders that involves loss in the sense of control over emotions, resulting in feelings of distress
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major depression

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  • mood disorder that involves long-term pervasive sense of sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness
  • clinical depression
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depressive symptoms

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  • feelings of sadness or hopelessness that are not as severe or long-lasting as major depression
  • subclinical depression
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impulse-control disorders

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  • mental health disorders that affect a person’s judgement or ability to control strong and often harmful impulses
  • men > women
  • Includes disorders of conduct, oppositional-defiant behavior, intermittent explosive disorder, ADHD
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substance abuse disorders

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  • mental health disorders that involve abuse or dependence on drugs or alcohol
  • young adults: illicit drugs
  • older adults: prescription drugs
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alternative medicine providers

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  • healthcare providers whose treatments are not supported by scientific data
  • chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, spiritualists
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socioeconomic status

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  • combined rating of income level and educational attainment
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type A behavior pattern

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  • state of being achievement-striving competitive, and involved in one’s job to excess
  • extreme urgency with time related matters
  • easily provoked to hostility
  • greater risk of coronary heart disease
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hostility

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  • negative cognitive set against others
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optimism

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  • positive outlook on life
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genotype

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  • individual’s complement of genes
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developmental-origins hypothesis

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  • explanation that events during the fetal period, infancy, and early years of childhood are significant factors in subsequent adult health
  • growth during the fetal period, infancy, and childhood influence adult health
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intergenerational effects

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  • prenatal experiences that affect the female fetus in adulthood and also her subsequent offspring
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health

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  • absence of acute and chronic phsyical or mental disease and impairements
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illness

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  • prescense of acute and chronic disease
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quality of life

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  • how they look at their life
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valuation of life

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  • degree to which a person is attached to their present life
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hypertension

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  • high blood pressure
  • can be present with no signs
  • include dizziness, fatigue, nervousness, palpitations, insomnia, weakness and headaches
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hypotenstion

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  • low blood pressure
  • related to anemia
  • common in older adults
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coronary heart disease

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  • type A personality

- symptoms are different in men and women

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acetylcholine

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  • memory functioning
  • neurons
  • neurotransmitter
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vascular dementia

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  • describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain
  • abrupt onset
  • stage like progression
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lewy body dementia

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  • parkinsonian dementia
  • lewy body: abnormal protein deposits in the brain
  • decreases dopamine
53
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delirium

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  • problems concentrating, restlessness, disorientation, mood, and activity swings, memory and language problems
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synergistic effects

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  • effects of combined medication differs from the effects of one medication

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