Exam 7: Health Status and Health-Care Transitions in an Aging Context

As people live longer, they are also free of disability for longer periods before death. Which of the following terms refers to this phenomenon?

What are the five criteria that provincial and territorial health insurance plans must adhere to in order to be eligible for federal funding? List and describe each.

Advanced and costly technologies contribute to which phenomenon, where higher-resolution images detect something unusual in a larger proportion of patients?

What barriers, if any, might older adults experience when accessing mental-health care?

Integrated models of care delivery use a coordinated assessment and management system.

Which model of care promotes healthy behaviours by targeting individuals or groups in a community or across a society?

Does the increase in physical activity occur in all demographics of older adults? Explain your answer.

Approximately what percentage of all health-care expenditures in Canada are accounted for by home care costs?

What are the benefits of regular physical activity for older people?

What is the difference between depression and delirium?

What is the primary reason for the recent stabilization of total drug expenditures?

There no evidence that subjective measures are predictive of impending death.

Will the baby boomers be healthier in old age than the previous generation? Explain your answer.

The WHO defines health as the absence of symptoms of illness or signs of disease.

What is morbidity compression? Does it exist? Explain your answer.

Discuss the integrated models of care delivery in Canada. Are there any proposed changes on the horizon?

Integrated models of care cost more than other types of care models.

Concerning dementia, which of the following statements is false?

What are five ways in which older people or their caregivers can enhance mental health?

Health-care costs have risen mainly because of population aging.