Exam 7: Promoting Healthy Aging, Independence, and Quality of Life

Activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) are the concepts that best capture the degree of which of the following an individual must bear?

With the assistance of a $2.1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, what medical self-care program distributed its medical self-care guide to 125,000 Idaho households, along with toll-free nurse consultation phone service and self-care workshops?

Even without a definitive body of research, which of the following is widely used, simple to administer, time efficient, and even cost effective when medical personnel assign their completion to a health educator or trained office worker?

Which of the following is a tool for preserving or enhancing the mental health of older adults, which is an autobiographical effort that can be preserved in print, tape recording, or on videotape?

What dimension of wellness focuses on doing something you love and balancing responsibilities with satisfying ways to occupy yourself?

Which of the following is often described as frailty when there are three or more ADL deficiencies, combined with weakness and chronic exhaustion?

What wellness program recommends a vegetarian diet with a fat intake of 10% or less of total calories, moderate aerobic exercise at least three times a week, yoga and meditation an hour a day, group support sessions, and smoking cessation?

What nutritional tool, developed by Covert Bailey, is unlike other tools because it is focused on making distinctions within food categories?

Although the mechanism is not understood, depression increases the likelihood of mortality from cancer and heart disease.

Strength building is the primary intervention for preventing what medical condition, the gradual loss of muscle mass with age?

Which organization has led the fight for nutrition labels on food items in the supermarket and for exposing the hidden fat in Chinese, Mexican, Italian, and delicatessen food?

Making physical activity or exercise a near-daily routine is more likely to become an enduring habit than the previously recommended three-times-per-week exercise routine.

Although this diet is more expensive than most Western diets, research reports that it reduces cardiovascular risk, decreases stroke risk, lowers overall mortality rate, and slows cognitive decline?

For most older adults, a brisk walking program will not provide sufficient intensity for a good aerobics program.

What type of activity has proven to improve body awareness, reduce stress, improve balance and coordination, and increase maximum range of motion by expanding joint mobility?

Because there is not a definitive body of research, health contracts are seldom used.

Versions of what model program are being replicated in senior wellness sites around the United States and two sites in Sweden to test its effectiveness in a variety of communities, in an assortment of sites, serving a diversity of clientele, and has demonstrated higher levels of physical activity and lower levels of depression among its participants?

The broadest perspective on quality of life is reflected in what concept, a term that has not caught on in the medical world but has in the corporate and academic settings?

The 1996 Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health was an outstanding review of the research on the effects of physical activity on people's health, and it has yet to be improved upon.

Among persons age 85 and over, attempts to decrease hypertension can lead to increased mortality.