Question

Mrs. Khadija is 80 years old female, who lives alone, her husband who was 95 years old passed away last month. She is retired and her husband was retired from his work several years before his death. She cannot afford to travel as much as she had dreamed. She enjoys good health explains to her primary care provider that she attributes her health status to her regular intake of berries, fruit juices, and green tea, which she states "help cleanse the damaging molecules out of my body. During the assessment, the nurse learns that Mrs. Khadija has lost over 4 inches in height over the last several years. She also reported that she feels fatigued. Based on the above scenario: please answer the following questions: 1. Explain the following phenomena: about the fact that more women than men live alone later in life? 2. Will you consider Mrs. Khadija as baby Boomers? Yes/ No, explain why if you answer yes Or no? How her age is an impact on the health care? 3. As a nurse working in community and directing an elderly program that serves an area with a large population of older adult conducting a long-term strategic plan. What criteria should the nurse take into account when planning for the future? 4. Which theories of aging underlie Mrs. Khadija health behaviors?

5. Fill in blank: Declining health, loss of roles, reduced income, a shrinking circle of friends, and other obstacles to maintaining an active life are to be resisted and overcome instead of being accepted are part of- - ----- theory. 6. As a nurse how you will facilitate Mrs. Khadija adjustment to widowhood?

7. As a nurse you can help Mrs. Khadija by assisting her entering which phase of retirement?

8. Rationalize the factors contributed to shortening of her height?

9. Mrs. Khadija, is presently undergoing an endocrine diagnostic workup in an effort to diagnose her increasing fatigue of unknown etiology. Which of the following findings would her care team recognize as potentially pathological? Choose one answer and explain why you think your answer is correct? A) Apparent decreased thyroid gland activity. B) Decreased somatotropic growth hormone (GH) levels. C) Delayed and insufficient release of insulin by the -cells. D) Decreased erythropoietin production by the kidneys

10. Feeling depressed and being alone may obstruct optimum psychological function. Recognizing the variety of factors potentially affecting psychological status and the range of individual responses to those factors. List three factors that might affect the psychological status of Mrs. Khadija and explain how. ...

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Question no 5

Activity Theory (Sociologic Theories of Aging)

Asserts that an older person should continue a middle-aged lifestyle, denying the existence of old age as long as possible, and that society should apply the same norms to old age as it does to middle age and not advocate diminishing activity, interest, and involvement as its members grow old. It suggest ways of maintaining activity in the presence of multiple losses associated with the aging process, including substituting intellectual activities for physical activities when physical capacity is reduced, replacing the work role with other roles when retirement occurs, and establishing new friendships when old ones are lost. Declining health, loss of roles, reduced income, a shrinking circle of friends, and other obstacles to maintain an active life are to be resisted and overcome instead of being accepted. A problem with the activity theory is its assumption that most older people desire and are able to maintain a middle-aged lifestyle.