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

As ____ prevention, nutrition helps promote health and affects the quality of life in older adults.

What describes a role of the Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA)?

What condition is a major contributor to disability and placement in nursing homes for those over age 75 and is often accompanied by food intake changes?

In what way does the Farm to Work initiative support obesity prevention?

Poly pharmacy, which is the tendency to purchase drugs at more than three stores, is problematic for many older adults.

A child born in 2013 can expect to live 72.8 years, about 50 years longer than a child born in 1900.​

​Match the assistance program in the left column with the funding source in the right column. Options will be used more than once. -​Older Americans Nutrition Program

There has been a dramatic improvement since the past decade in the status of most objectives for physical activity and fitness among adults.

​What describes a topic area relevant to older adults as part of the Healthy People 2020 initiative?

Match the assistance program in the right column with its type of intervention and/or available services. Options will only be used once.​ -​Income subsidy that provides low-income seniors with coupons that can be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables

List three environmental and three socio economic factors that specifically influence the nutrition status of older adults.

To promote healthful aging, improve care, and broaden access to food and nutrition programs and services for older adults, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics supports which strategy?

​The baby boom generation consists of people born between the years _____ and _____.

The health effects of aging in the endocrine system of older adults are most commonly manifested as decreased absorption of minerals.

Many instrumental activities of daily living, such as shopping and paying bills, are closely related to adequate nutrition status.

​Match the assistance program in the left column with the funding source in the right column. Options will be used more than once. -​Medicare

Match the assistance program in the right column with its type of intervention and/or available services. Options will only be used once.​ -​Provides meals and snacks to participating day care programs for older Americans

What improvements would you recommend to enhance the ability of the Older Americans Nutrition Program to meet the needs of those who are eligible to receive its benefits?

​The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged public health efforts to increase consumer intakes of fruits and vegetables through ____.

​Match the aging effect(s) in the left column with the organ system in the right column. Options will only be used once. -​Altered circulating hormone levels