Intro class

• High level of wellness is the goal with health. It is the presence of wellness and health in a person.
• Wellness to illness to highlevel wellness:

  • previous level of functioning with inadequate coping mechanisms
  • hazardous event or crisis
  • new coping mechanisms induce growth and a higher level of functioning
• The life expectancy for men is 80 years old and 84 years old for women
• Social determinants of health are: income and social status, employment and working conditions, education and literacy, childhood, physical environment, social support and coping skills, healthy behaviors, access to health services, genetics, gender, culture, race
• Holistic care includes spirit and mind when providing care
• Successful healthy aging involves social, biological, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural and environmental factors
• Holistic care in nursing includes comprehensive assessment, individualized care plan, promotion of wellness (healthy behaviors), cultural competence, collaborative approach, patient education, complementary therapies, emotional support and spirituality
• Age attribution is attributing cognitive or physical problems on the aging process rather than existing circumstances
• Aging is the process of growing older
• Ageism is a way of thinking about older people based on negative attitudes and stereotypes about aging OR a tendency to structure society based on an assumption that everyone is young so it fails to respond to needs of an older person
• Culturally competent care is the ability of an individual to understand and respect values and beliefs of different cultures and care for a person with respect to their culture
• Determinants of health are factors and conditions that influence the health status of individuals, communities and populations
• Elderspeak is a common speech style used when talking too older adults that presupposes their dependance and incompetence. It includes baby talk, honey, dear and talking louder and slower
• Ethnicity is the cultural, racial, religious or linguistic traditions of a people or country
• Health disparities are inequalities and differences in health status across population groups defined by characteristics such as socioeconomic status, geographical location, ethnicity and gender
• Health inequities are systemic differences in health outcomes based on health disparities and social determinants of health
• Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to obtain process and understand the basic information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions
• Life expectancy is the average number of years a person is expected to live based on mortality rates or people who have survived to a particular age
• Stereotype is a belief applied to a group of persons on the basis of actual or assumed knowledge about an individual member of the group
• Wellness is a state of health (physical, psychological, spiritual and economic) that is optimal for an individual at any point in time