Chapter 5- Health and Prevention

because it focuses on the degree of independence an older adult is able to maintain, it is important to healthcare practitioners to measure instrumental activities of daily. This measure includes which type of criteria?

Awareness of time, place, and person

The plaques found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease are made up of which substance?

Beta amyloid

A 65-year-old man smoked all his life and now has ____________, a combination of chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)

In the disease known as ________________, the heart cannot distribute enough blood throughout the body to reach the major organs, causing the tissues to swell with fluid.

Congestive heart failure

A true Mediterranean diet would include relatively little of which type of food?

Milk

The training of health professionals to work with the older population should, based on trends in chronic disease prevalence, involve knowledge about coping with which type of illness?

Osteoarthritis

In ________________ disease, the individual primarily suffers from disturbances in motor functioning, including having tremors, shuffling gait, and difficulties maintaining balance.

Parkinson's

A middle-aged man is worried that his 83-year-old mother may develop osteoporosis, a reasonable concern because she:

Takes in very little vitamin D

You're the health care professional treating a 72-year-old woman who you determine suffers from arteriosclerosis. In explaining this condition to her, you inform her that this condition specifically is defined as involving:

Thickening and hardening of the arteries

A mental health clinician is evaluating an older adult patient referred for neuropsychological testing. The clinician recognizes that small changes in cognitive functioning, occurring in stepwise manner, may most likely be due to which condition?

Transient ischemic attack

The country with the highest death rate due to cardiovascular disease is:

Turkmenistan

Which group in the population is at particularly high risk for developing osteoporosis?

White women

The world health organization defines health as having which qualities?

complete physical, mental and social well-being

The "stroke" belt received its name because people living in this region tend to:

experience higher mortality rates from this disease

Psychologists diagnosing Alzheimer's disease look for which key symptom in its early stage?

forgetting names of good friends or family

The behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases in later adulthood include tobacco smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and:

harmful use of alcohol

Exposure to the asbestos increase an individuals risk of developing _________ cancer

lung cancer

The condition known as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is used in cases involving:

memory loss that may progress to Alzheimer's disease.

A 72-year-old woman has been told by her physician that, because she is obese, she is putting increased weight on her joints, thus increasing her risk of developing the musculoskeletal disease known as:

osteoarthritis

Clinicians seek to distinguish Alzheimer's disease from other neurocognitive disorders as soon as possible in their patients primarily because:

other disorders that look like Alzheimer's may be reversible if treated early on.

Diabetes can be traced to the abnormal functioning of which bodily organ?

pancreas

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is almost always caused by:

smoking