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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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?

A) Yoga
B) Tai chi
C) Isometrics
D) Aerobics

Question 5

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

A) Osteopenia
B) Osteoporosis
C) Osteosarcoma
D) Sarcopenia

Question 6

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?

A) The Atkins Diet
B) The Paleo Diet
C) The Mediterranean Diet
D) The South Beach Diet

Question 7

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

A) Depression
B) Dependency
C) Deficiency
D) Deprivation

Question 8

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?

A) Project Enhance
B) Healthwise
C) Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease
D) Clinical Program at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine

Question 9

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?

A) Living will
B) Advance directive
C) Health contract
D) Durable Power of Attorney

Question 10

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

A) Food Guide Pyramid
B) The MyPlate Icon
C) Nutrition Bull's Eye
D) The BMI Calculator

Question 11

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

Question 12

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.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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?

A) U.S. Department of Agriculture
B) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
C) U.S. Food and Drug Administration
D) Center for Science in the Public Interest

Question 15

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?

A) Anxiety
B) Depression
C) Dependency
D) Adherence

Question 16

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?

A) Health contract
B) Life review
C) Living will
D) Advance directive

Question 17

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

A) Emotional
B) Vocational
C) Intellectual
D) Spiritual

Question 18

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?

A) Project Enhance
B) Healthwise
C) Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
D) Clinical program at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine

Question 19

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?

A) Project Enhance
B) Healthwise
C) Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
D) Clinical program at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine

Question 20

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?

A) Health
B) Wellness
C) Independence
D) Functionality