Deck 24: Relationships, Roles, and Transitions

Question 1

In a retirement planning program,the community health nurse wants to help participants avoid disappointment in retirement.The nurse's program emphasizes which of the following elements that must be adequate to meet postretirement expectations?

A) Financial planning
B) Company-sponsored benefits
C) Company-sponsored health care
D) Government-sponsored benefits
E) Ability to maintain a personal residence
F)Safety and security of a personal residence

Answer 1

Financial planning
Company-sponsored benefits
Company-sponsored health care
Government-sponsored benefits

Question 2

Which is the most important element for older adults to have for enhancing the transition into retirement?

A) Good health
B) Private pension
C) 401k retirement plan
D) Preretirement planning

Answer 2

Preretirement planning

Question 3

Which of the following statements is true about relationships of older adults?

A) Loneliness is evidence of self-centeredness and an unwillingness to love.
B) A person may be lonely even when surrounded by other people.
C) Hostile behavior indicates that a person prefers to be left alone.
D) A pet cannot substitute for human attention.

Answer 3

A person may be lonely even when surrounded by other people.

Question 4

Which one of the following older adults is most likely to need preretirement counseling to avoid significant concerns in retirement?

A) African-American woman who is a certified public accountant
B) Mexican-American woman who receives cash for cleaning services
C) Middle-aged man who has a history of type 1 diabetes mellitus
D) Older male clerk who works for the Department of Homeland Security

Question 5

Which one of the following older adults has the highest economic risk in retirement at the beginning of retirement?

A) Divorced woman who has lived in this country for 3 years
B) Male veteran who is an above-the-knee amputee and was a teacher
C) Female widow who is a primary care nurse practitioner
D) Man who immigrated from China and designs computer software

Question 6

Which of the following statements is not true of older adult relationships?

A) After 50 years of marriage, a couple can face new and severe challenges to their relationship.
B) Older adults often hold their families together by arranging get-togethers and documenting the family's history and rituals.
C) Losing a brother or sister brings an older adult face-to-face with his or her own death.
D) For older adults, friends can never take the place of family.

Question 7

The nurse should suggest which of the following to a spouse of a patient with dementia who has displayed inappropriate sexual behavior to decrease the occurrence?

A) Intimate relations
B) Hug
C) Kiss
D) Touch

Question 8

Which population(s)is(are)most at risk for developing HIV?

A) Those over the age of 50 years
B) Women
C) Those who are cognitively impaired
D) Those who are sexually active

Question 9

What makes nursing support of caregivers so important for health care in the United States?

A) Family members providing care in the home are the best caregivers.
B) Eighty percent of caregiving takes place in the home of the older adult.
C) The health care system reimburses families for caregiving from Medicare.
D) Informal caregiving saves the health care system enormous sums of money.

Question 10

As the wife of a university president,an older woman met exciting people and traveled extensively until her husband died.Besides losing an intimate partner,the nurse identifies that this woman is most likely to grieve for the loss of which area of her life?

A) Self-confidence
B) Economic security
C) Status in community
D) Intellectual stimulation

Question 11

The community health nurse delivers a program to middle-aged adults about retirement planning and wants to them to choose the year of their retirement.Which is the most important area on which the participants should focus to ease the transition to retirement?

A) Kind of legacy they want to leave behind
B) Type of setting for their personal residence
C) Location of convenient health care services
D) Ability to maintain a stable standard of living

Question 12

Which of the following statements is true about caregiving?

A) Dementia in an older adult can cause grief in the caregiver, comparable with the grief from the older adult's death.
B) Middle-aged adults and older parents reverse life-long caregiving roles with increasing age.
C) Older adults should relocate to the caregiver's home when long distances separate the two.
D) Increasing numbers of adult children who are developmentally disabled become caregivers for their older parents.

Question 13

The children of an older woman ask the nurse for advice about helping their mother heal after her husband's (their father's)death.Which strategy should the nurse share with the family?

A) Appoint one family member to take her on outings.
B) Coordinate family expressions of care and concern.
C) Have each child plan a long trip with her assistance.
D) Take her to community events to meet other people.

Question 14

An older man is being abused by his daughter,a single working mother of four children,with whom he lives.The nurse investigates and learns that the abuse is due to situational stress.Which of the following interventions should the nurse implement to address the short-term crisis?

A) Immediately remove him from his daughter's home.
B) Encourage the daughter to work with social services.
C) Arrange respite care or day care for the patient.
D) Place the patient in a long-term care facility.

Question 15

Which disease has become known as the "great imitator?"

A) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
B) Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
C) Alzheimer disease
D) Schizophrenia

Question 16

Which of the following statements is true about the role of grandparents?

A) The usefulness of grandparents declined with the advent of the industrial age.
B) Today, many grandparents are the primary caregivers of their grandchildren.
C) The value of grandparents is to provide gifts to younger family members.
D) Traditionally, parents are subordinate to the grandparents in caregiving.