Gerontological Nursing The Essential Guide to Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition by Patricia A.
Gerontological Nursing The Essential Guide to Clinical Practice, 2nd Edition by Patricia A.
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Chapter 32- Mental Health Disorders
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
| 1. | Which of the following statements most accurately conveys an aspect of mental health among older adults? | |
| A) | As a result of their life experiences, older adults have a lower incidence of depression. | |
| B) | Older adults are less likely than younger people to use alcohol inappropriately as a coping tool. | |
| C) | The overall incidence of mental illness is higher in young people than in older adults. | |
| D) | The elderly are more likely than young adults to choose suicide. | |
| Ans: | D | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Suicide is more common among older adults than younger adults, as is depression and mental illness overall. Rates of alcoholism are not noted to be lower among the aged. | ||
| Origin: Chapter 32- Mental Health Disorders, 2
Chapter: 32 Client Needs: C Cognitive Level: Application Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 1 Page and Header: 426, Introduction |
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| 2. | Which of the following are strengths that older people have which are advantages that many younger adults do not? (Select all that apply.) | |
| A) | They probably have had more experience with coping, problem solving, and managing crises because they have lived longer. | |
| B) | Most older persons do not have concerns about what they are going to be when they “grow up” because they have already grown up. | |
| C) | Most elderly people have not learned who they really are. | |
| D) | They have faced and overcome numerous stresses. | |
| Ans: | A, B, D | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Older people have an advantage over other age groups in that they probably have had more experience with coping, problem solving, and managing crises by virtue of the years they have lived. Most older persons have few delusions regarding what they are or what they are going to be. They know where they have been, what they have accomplished, and who they really are. Older people have faced and overcome many stresses, including immigrating to a new country, watching loved ones die from epidemics, fighting in world wars, and surviving the Great Depression. | ||
| Origin: Chapter 32- Mental Health Disorders, 3
Chapter: 32 Client Needs: C Cognitive Level: Analysis Difficulty: Moderate Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 1 Page and Header: 426, Introduction |
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| 3. | What factors may be reasons that older people may have mental illness despite the advantages of experience? (Select all that apply.) | |
| A) | Mental illness is to be expected in older adults as they become demented. | |
| B) | More people survive to old age and may bring problems that they have had throughout their lifetime. | |
| C) | Mental health is generally increased as a person ages. | |
| D) | The many losses and challenges of late life may exceed the physical, emotional, and social resources of some persons and promote mental illness. | |
| Ans: | B, D | |
| Feedback: | ||
| More people survive to old age, and any problems that they have had throughout their lifetimes may still be a part of their lives. The many losses and challenges of late life may exceed resources and promote mental illness. Older people do not necessarily become demented and mental illness is not to be expected. Mental health is not consistently increased by age. | ||
| Origin: Chapter 32- Mental Health Disorders, 4
Chapter: 32 Client Needs: C Cognitive Level: Application Difficulty: Easy Integrated Process: Nursing process Objective: 1 Page and Header: 427, Promoting Mental Health in Older Adults |
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| 4. | Which of the following are problems that older adults may confront that challenge their emotional homeostasis? (Select all that apply.) | |
| A) | Altered function or body image | |
| B) | Increased vulnerability to crime and abuse | |
| C) | Independence from others | |
| D) | Sensory deficits | |
| E) | Greater awareness of own mortality | |
| Ans: | A, B, D, E | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Problems that older adults may confront that challenge their emotional homeostasis include the following: illness, which can be coping, related self-care demands, pain, altered function or body image; increased vulnerability to crime illness, disability, abuse; sensory deficits including decrease in or loss of function of hearing, vision, taste, smell, and touch; greater awareness of own mortality from increased numbers of deaths among peers. Older adults may not experience independence from others; in fact, many (but not all) elders have increased dependence on others. | ||
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