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WEEK 4 Flashcards

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helps prevent functional decline.

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DISEASE PREVENTION

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designed to completely prevent a disease from occuring.

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PRIMARY PREVENTION

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early detection and management of disease.

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

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manage clinical disease in order to prevent them from progressing or to avoid complications of the disease.

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

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how a person rates his or her life as satisfactory or not.

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QUALITY OF LIFE

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functional ability, strength/fatigue, sleep/rest, nausea, appetite, and constipation.

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PHYSICAL WELL BEING

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anxiety, depression, enjoyment, leisure, pain distress, happiness, fear, cognition/attention.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING

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caregiver burden, roles and relationship, affection/sexual function, appearance.

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SOCIAL WELL BEING

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suffering, meaning of pain, religiosity, transcendence.

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SPIRITUAL WELL BEING

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integrated health and quality of life program. Optimizing opportunities for health, participation in the community and
safe living in order to enhance quality of life.

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ACTIVE AGING

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contributes to muscle strength, flexibility, balance, cardiovascular health and positive mood and improves cognition.

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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

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powerful and modifiable lifestyle factors.

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NUTRITION

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single most important preventable risk factors that cause Premature Death.

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SMOKING

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5 A’s

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ASK, ADVISE, ASSESS, ASSIST, ARRANGE.

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elderly have the increase effects of alcohol because of pharmacologic changes associated with aging.

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ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM

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consists of multiple health and social services delivered to recovering, chronically ill, or disable individuals of all ages in their place of residence.

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HOME HEALTH CARE

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is the final phase in the trajectory of a chronic illness.

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DYING

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short-term relief or time off for persons providing home care to ill, disabled, or frail older adults.

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RESPITE CARE

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provide a variety of health and social services to older adults who live alone or with their families in the community.

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ADULT DAY CARE PROGRAMS

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are community facilities that provide a broad range of services to older adults in the community.

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SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERS

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are community facilities that provide a broad range of services to older adults in the community.

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SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERS

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include such things as
house cleaning, laundry, food shopping, meal preparation, and running errands.

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HOMEMAKER PROGRAMS

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Nutrition services provide older adults with inexpensive, nutritious meals at home, or in group settings.

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HOME-DELIVERED MEALS

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many communities provide transportation services for disabled older adults through public or private agencies.

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TRANSPORTATION

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Term used to describe an individual’s ability to perform the normal, expected, or required activities for self-care.

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FUNCTIONAL STATUS

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assess cognitive impairment which affects an individual’s functional status.

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COGNITIVE FUNCTION

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This is a self- contained apartment unit within a house that allows an individual to live independently without living alone.

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ACCESSORY APARTMENT

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This is a rental housing arrangement that provides room, meals, utilities, and laundry and housekeeping services for a group of residents.

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ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY/ BOARD AND CARE HOME

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was authorized in 1970 by the housing and Urban Development Act. It is a group-living arrangement, usually an apartment complex, that provides tenants.

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CONGREGATE HOUSING

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This is a small, self-contained portable unit that can be placed in the backyard or at the side of a single-family dwelling.

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ELDER COTTAGE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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It is a social service administered by the state that places an older person who needs some protective oversight or a assistance with personal care in a family environment.

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FOSTER HOME CARE

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involves two or more unrelated people living together in a house or apartment.

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HOME SHARING

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This is facility designed to support the concept of “aging in place”.

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LIFE CARE OR CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY

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is a home for the aged in the Philippines serving to provide true home to all abandoned,
poor, sick and homeless elderly in the country.

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KANLUNGAN NI MARIA HOME FOR THE AGED

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a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week assessment/diagnostic and residential care facility that provides residential care to abandoned, neglected, unattached and homeless Filipino Senior Citizen who are 60 years old.

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GOLDEN RECEPTION AND ACTION CENTER FOR THE ELDERLY AND OTHER SPECIAL CASES

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is a shelter for the homeless, old and sickly people who have been given up by their families for a lot of reasons.

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EMMAUS HOUSE OF APOSTOLATE

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provides assessment, observation, teaching, certain technical skills and personal care for short- period of time.

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FORMAL SERVICES

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include senior citizen centers, adult care services, nutrition services, transportation services, and telephone monitoring services.

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INFORMAL SERVICES

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are an increasingly attractive long-term care setting, placed between home care and the nursing facility in the continuum of long-term care.

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ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMS

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is the designation given to freestanding facilities or units within nursing facilities that specialize in the care of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementing illnesses.

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SPECIAL CARE UNITS

40
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Patients in this care are stable and no longer acutely ill or requiring daily physician visits. They may require services such as rehabilitation, intravenous medication therapy, parenteral nutrition, complex respiratory care, and wound management.

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SUBACUTE CARE

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one of the most common problems of aging and can result in itching (pruritus), burning, and cracking of the skin.

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DRY SKIN

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a particular risk to older adults who suffer from compromised circulation, restricted mobility, altered level of consciousness, fecal or urinary incontinence, or nutritional problems.

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PRESSURE ULCERS

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a natural, periodically recurring, physiologic state of rest for the body and mind; sleep is a state of inactivity or response that is required to remain active.

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SLEEP

44
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an organized pattern of
perceived characteristics, along with the values
attached to those attributes.

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SELF-CONCEPT

45
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affect person’s personality
(wrong self-perception may lead to psychological
problems)

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SELF-PERCEPTION

46
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inability to fall sleep, difficulty staying asleep, or premature waking

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INSOMNIA

47
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pertains to whole persons; body, mind, and spirit.

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HOLISTIC

48
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painful intercourse sufficient to engage in sexual intercourse.

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DYSPAREUNIA

49
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the inability to attain and maintain an erection of the penis.

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ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION

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