Exam 13: Healthy Aging: Nutrition Assessment, Services, and Programs

Life expectancy has risen, in part, due to better prenatal and postnatal care and improved means of combating disease in older adults.​

Reduced stomach acidity associated with advancing age most likely impairs the absorption of what nutrient?

The word DETERMINE is used as a mnemonic device with the self-assessment checklist of the Nutrition Screening Initiative. The "D" in DETERMINE stands for ____.

Describe the classifications of worksite health promotion efforts designed to improve health and prevent disease.

An example of a physiological risk factor that would affect nutrition status in older adults would be ____.

For adults over age 50, health promotion efforts seek to preserve independence, productivity, and personal fulfillment.

The Eat Smart, Live Strong program is designed to improve fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among older adults eligible for nutrition assistance programs.

Identify some of the characteristics of baby boomers and describe how they could be incorporated into a nutrition education program for this target group.

​Match the aging effect(s) in the left column with the organ system in the right column. Options will only be used once. -​Dryness, loss of elasticity, dilation of capillaries

The solution to successful aging is to begin to prepare for old age early in life, both psychologically and nutritionally.

What nutrition program would most likely be implemented as part of care for institutionalized older adults?

An important characteristic of community nutrition interventions is that they can reach people in many different contexts of their daily lives.

The Older Americans Nutrition Program provides information, referrals, and attention to the needs of homebound older adults.

Why do Okinawans enjoy one of the longest life spans of anyone on earth?​

List four examples of major nutritional policy recommendations from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to better help older adults manage their health.

Which type of drugs are most commonly used by older adults?

What best describes an example of tertiary prevention?

Match the definitions in the left column with the appropriate term in the right column. Options will only be used once.​​ -​The period of time between 1946 and 1964

Though optimal nutrition contributes to healthy aging, approximately one-quarter of all older adults and one-half of all hospitalized older adults may suffer from malnutrition.

Match the definitions in the left column with the appropriate term in the right column. Options will only be used once.​​ -​The average age of death