Which are the major factors influencing the experience of aging? ...

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Which are the major factors influencing the experience of aging?
 
  a. Health, history, and sex
  b. Self-care needs and culture
  c. Self-fulfillment and self-esteem
  d. Society, culture, and marital status

Question 2

Acute illness is to chronic illness as which of the following comparisons?
 
  a. An emergency department is to a nursing home
  b. A hospital staff nurse is to a nurse practitioner
  c. Health insurance is to Medicare for older adults
  d. Inpatient surgical care is to outpatient medical care

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Answer to Question 1

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Health, history, and sex are major factors influencing the aging experience and interact to make each cohort distinctive.
Culture is a major influence on the experience of aging and contributes to the uniqueness of a cohort; however, self-care needs are basic human needs and contribute to the similarities be-tween cohorts. Self-fulfillment and self-esteem are higher-level human needs on Maslow's hie-rarchy and denote similarities between cohorts. Society and culture are major influences on the aging experience, but marital status is not.

Answer to Question 2

A

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A Correct. Acute illness can be likened an emergency department because it treats conditions with sudden onset and sudden exacerbations of existing conditions with short-term treatment options; this is compared to a nursing home, which cares for individuals with long-term conditions that warrant admission after a decline in health or to individuals with long-term health care needs.
B Incorrect. The acute-chronic analogy is a comparison of sudden and short versus gradual and long-term. The comparison between a nurse and a nurse practitioner is one of practice setting and scope of practice.
C Incorrect. Medicare is a type of health insurance; however, chronic illness is not a type of acute illness.
D Incorrect. Inpatient surgical care can be emergent and elective, and outpatient medical care is usually for ongoing health care but can also be applied to emer-gent conditions.