GERI MIDTERM VERSION 1,2 AND 3 NEWEST 2025

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GERI MIDTERM VERSION 1,2 AND 3 NEWEST 2025

ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND

CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED

ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW

VERSION!!

GERI MIDTERM EXAM VERSION 1

• What is the most compelling reason for health professionals

to be educated in the area of gerontology?

• to address the comprehensive nursing shortage
• to make an increase in salary
• to prepare to be challenged by the educated baby boomers
• to prepare to care for the growing number of older persons in

the population - ANSWER-to prepare to care for the growing number of older persons in the population

• An intergenerational approach to care for the aging is

advisable because of what fact?

• baby boomers want their children to take of them in old age

b) Gen X and Gen Y persons do not know anything about aging 1 / 4

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• most older persons are cared for by their children
• nearly a half million grandparents are raising their

grandchildren - ANSWER-d) nearly a half million grandparents are raising their grandchildren

• What best explains the lack of prepared, qualified health

professionals to care for the aged?

• a shortage of nursing faculty
• medical programs not including gerontology content
• not enough health professionals choosing gero as a specialty
• the current nursing shortage - ANSWER-c) not enough health

professionals choosing gero as a specialty

Chapter3: - ANSWER-

• The theory of aging that says that personality and coping

patterns remain consistent through life is:

• continuity
• gerotranscendence
• human needs
• life course - ANSWER-a. continuity 2 / 4

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• Erikson's stages of personality development for a person that

is 76 years old would be:

• autonomy versus shame
• integrity versus despair
• generativity versus isolation
• trust versus mistrust - ANSWER-b) integrity versus despair

• A biological theory of aging that is based on random events

that cause cellular damage versus genetically programmed

events is called:

• nonstochastic

b) Orgel/error

• selective optimization
• stochastic - ANSWER-b) Orgel/error

• A scientist who believes that people have a genetic

programming that determines or predicts longevity is a supporter of which theory?

• age stratification
• cross-link 3 / 4

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• free radical
• gene/biological - ANSWER-gene/biological

• When a Native American Indian elder goes out into the woods

to die and the tribe does not search for him, but allows him to

withdraw, this could be an example of:

• activity theory
• disengagement theory
• subculture
• person-environment fit - ANSWER-b) disengagement theory

• A 99 year old widow who has lived alone in her own home for

40 years experiences a fall and is sent by her children and grandchildren to a nursing home. The woman refuses to eat and exhibits signs and symptoms of depression and withdrawal.Which theory does this most describe?

• functional consequences
• theory of thriving
• neuroedncorine
• immunological - ANSWER-b) theory of thriving
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