AGST 410 — MINORITY PERSPECTIVES IN AGING
Learning Objectives & Matches
2. Describe gerontological terminology and how it applies to older adults, in particular to diverse older persons (i.e. cohort, cohort effect, period, period effect).
Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet those needs.
Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records.
Refer patients for more specialized treatments when conditions exceed the experience, expertise, or scope of practice of practitioner.
Compile terminology and information to be used in translations, including technical terms such as those for legal or medical material.
Provide patients with information about the inheritance of conditions such as cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and various forms of cancer.
Identify factors that may affect patient management, such as age, gender, barriers to communication, and underlying disease.
Analyze clinical or survey data, using statistical approaches such as longitudinal analysis, mixed-effect modeling, logistic regression analyses, and model-building techniques.
Measure patients' range-of-joint motion, body parts, or vital signs to determine effects of treatments or for patient evaluations.
Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients.
4. Examine the contemporary conditions and status of diverse elders from a historical perspective.
Present historical accounts in terms of individuals or social, ethnic, political, economic, or geographic groupings.
Speak to various groups, organizations, and clubs to promote the aims and activities of historical societies.
Inquire into the cause, manner, and circumstances of human deaths and establish the identities of deceased persons.
Advise or consult with individuals and institutions regarding issues such as the historical authenticity of materials or the customs of a specific historical period.
Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
Interview people to gather information about historical events and to record oral histories.
Present research findings to groups of people.
Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet those needs.
Conduct historical research, and publish or present findings and theories.