Activity Director Certification
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continuum of care - correct Answers ✔✔ -Levels of care beginning with care at
home, care provided in the community such as adult day centers and institutional
care through assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
professional organization - correct Answers ✔✔ -nonprofit organization that
works to improve the image, working conditions, and skill levels of people in
particular occupations
activism - correct Answers ✔✔ -The practice of pursuing political or other goals
through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations
CMS - correct Answers ✔✔ -Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
federal agency overseeing skilled nursing facilities
life course perspective - correct Answers ✔✔ -How one experiences a
timetable of life events and society looks upon how a person chooses his /
her life choices
Theories of Aging - correct Answers ✔✔ -Various theories as to why we
age - two categories - genetic and wear and tear theories
Abraham Maslow - correct Answers ✔✔ -Hierarchy of needs with self-
actualization being the ultimate psychological need
Lower level needs=survival/safety
Higher level needs=intellectual achievement and finally self-actualization
Erik Erikson - correct Answers ✔✔ -Known for his 8-stages of life and how
one responds to life experiences in those stages would mold personality
, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - correct Answers ✔✔ -psychologist who created the
5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
cohort effect - correct Answers ✔✔ -consequences of being born in a
particular year or time period and dealing with its own pressures,
problems, challenges, and opportunities
cumulative disadvantage - correct Answers ✔✔ -the negative effects of
inequality in wealth, status, and opportunity over the life span
social clock - correct Answers ✔✔ -the culturally preferred timing of social
events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement
social gerontology - correct Answers ✔✔ -a specialized field of gerontology
that examines the social (and sociological) aspects of aging
functional age - correct Answers ✔✔ -actual competence and performance
of an older adult, as distinguished from chronological age
palliative care - correct Answers ✔✔ -Care designed not to treat an illness
but to provide physical and emotional comfort to the patient and support
and guidance to his or her family. Similar to hospice but with no end of life
time frame
age grade - correct Answers ✔✔ -an organized category of people based
on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over
his or her lifetime
Wellness Model - correct Answers ✔✔ -encompasses the physical,
intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and vocational aspects of health
medical model - correct Answers ✔✔ -the concept that diseases have
physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured.
metamessage - correct Answers ✔✔ -Underlying message of what's being
said
autonomy - correct Answers ✔✔ -independence
Spirit of life - correct Answers ✔✔ -The force within the body that gives life
energy and power
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