CNA Prep Test 1

Many elderly residents lose their appetite due to

• a decrease in saliva

• hardening of the arteries

• decrease in number of taste buds

• both a and c

The thinning of the fatty layer under the skin could cause the resident to

• lose their appetite

• having difficulty walking

• develop pressure sores

• have slowed mental responses

Elderly residents sometimes appear stooped over and like they have lost height.

• the resident's increased difficulty in breathing

• the deterioration of muscle tissue

• loss of calcium causing changes in the spinal column

• decreased cardiac output

One of the major reasons the elderly person is incontinent of urine is

• they are too lazy to go to the bathroom

• they can't get a nurse aide to help them to the bathroom

• the circulatory system is failing

• the muscle that keeps urine in the bladder weakens

Constipation and indigestion can be a result from

• slowed respirations

• slowed mental response

• slowed periatalsis

• slowed brain waves

Strokes are seen in the elderly. Strokes are best described as

• when the muscle die

• when the brain is deprived of oxygen

• when the heart fails

• when the lungs fill with fluid

Which statement is TRUE concerning sexuality in the elderly:

• sex and intimacy are not important

• elderly women are not interested in sex

• the elderly men and women are attracted to each other

• elderly people are only interested in their health

One of the major causes of depression in the elderly is

• inability to run their own lives

• going to nursing home activities

• living with their children

• lack of money

Which of the following statements about aging is true

• most elderly people are confused

• most older people live in nursing homes

• most older people are alert and oriented

• most older people are sick and helpless

When dry, hard stool fills the rectum and will not pass, it is called

• edema

• incontinence

• atrophy

• impaction