An 82-year-old woman is referred to outpatient physical therapy following two falls in the past 3 months. She lives alone in a single-story home. Her medical history includes hypertension, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, and mild cognitive impairment. Her medications include a beta blocker, metformin, a statin, and a recently prescribed benzodiazepine for sleep. During the evaluation, she reports feeling “groggy” in the mornings and admits she is most afraid of “losing independence and having to move in with my daughter.” Examination reveals decreased gait speed, impaired dual-task balance, and mild short-term memory deficits. Using the Geriatric 5M framework, which of the following is the MOST appropriate initial physical therapy action?

A home assessment is a key part of your PT evaluation in the Home Health and Hospice setting.

Drug related problems in the older adult include which of the following:

 Refer to the following case to answer questions 19-28 Ralph is an  85-year-old male who has been referred for a PT evaluation by his primary care physician due to R shoulder pain, which began ~1 month ago.  The pain is at its worst when he attempts to lift his arm past ~45 degrees of flexion and abduction.  He reported that because of the shoulder pain he has trouble getting his shirt on in the morning, combing his hair, and washing his upper body in the shower. Ralph stresses the importance of being able to maintain his independence at home and states “this is a top priority”.  PMHX: CABGx3 with artificial valve replacement 15 years ago, spinal stenosis, high blood pressure, previous MI x2.  Current meds:  Lasix, Lipitor, Lopressor, Coumadin.  Current level of function: He walks with a cane a maximum of 150 feet.  He wears bilateral bifocal eyeglasses and hearing aids secondary to presbycusis. How does incorporating “Matters Most” from the Geriatric 5Ms enhance physical therapy care for Ralph?

Use the following case to answer questions 29-36 Ethyl is a 90-year-old female who was admitted to the hospital last night with a diagnosis of pneumonia.  The physical therapist received orders to evaluate and treat this patient to improve mobility. History and Examination Findings: History: She is retired and lives by herself in a 1-bedroom apartment in an assisted living facility.  Her husband died last year, and she reports to you several times that she is “lost without him.”  Her past medical history reveals that she wears glasses, has macular degeneration, has hearing aids, uses a 4 wheeled walker for ambulation, does not drive, has had 3 spinal compression fractures and a hip fracture within the last 5 years, is being hospitalized for pneumonia for the 3rd time in the last 6 months, and has high cholesterol.  Ethyl is 5 feet 3 and Weighs 85 pounds. (BMI 15.1) 2 years ago her BMI was 19 Alert and orientedX3, she answers all questions appropriately, and her voice is gurgly sounding. Posture: forward head, excessive kyphosis, and posterior pelvic tilt in sitting. Transfers: supine to sit with stand-by assist, sit to stand with moderate assist from a low chair Gait: 5 mph (.6 meters/sec.) with 4 wheeled walker 200 feet requiring 3 sitting rest breaks. Balance: High fall risk category on Tinetti (score 16) The PT is developing an intervention to improve Ethyl’s independence with standing up from a chair. Which of the following exercises (modified if necessary) would be the most important to include?

An 82-year-old woman is referred to outpatient physical therapy following two falls in the past 3 months. She lives alone in a single-story home. Her medical history includes hypertension, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, and mild cognitive impairment. Her medications include a beta blocker, metformin, a statin, and a recently prescribed benzodiazepine for sleep. During the evaluation, she reports feeling “groggy” in the mornings and admits she is most afraid of “losing independence and having to move in with my daughter.” Examination reveals decreased gait speed, impaired dual-task balance, and mild short-term memory deficits. During the second visit, the patient states: “I don’t care if I fall again. I just don’t want to end up in a nursing home.” Her daughter, who is present, says: “Mom needs to stop living alone. It’s not safe.” Which of the following is the MOST appropriate physical therapist response using the Geriatric 5M framework?

Please  consider the various defenitions of aging in the older adult population.  Match the form of aging with its appropriate description

Patient has presbyopia (no previous or additional vision deficits). To account for the presbyopia only, the physical therapist should make which of the following accommodations in his/her clinic?

Interviews we conducted in class are an example of quantitative research.

Read the content below and fill in the blanks using words from the provided word box. Remember that to be considered correct, the form of the words must be exactly the same as in the word box, including capitalization and spacing. [Short answer Question] __________is the uncertainty of personal consequences when buying or using a product.     [Word box] absolute threshold, actual product, adaptation, attention, augmented product, behavioral learning theory, bottom-up processing, brand loyal, brand perception, brand personality, chunking, cognitive dissonance, cognitive learning theory, confirmation bias, conditioned stimulus, continuous reinforcement, convergent products, core value, decay, Delboeuf illusion, desires, differential threshold, encoding, elaborative rehearsal, exposure, extinction, familiarity, family branding, forward conditioning, generalization, goals, guilt, hedonic value, heterogeneous, homogeneous, interference theory, interpretation, involvement, just noticeable difference, licensing, line extension, long-term memory, memory, mental schema, mere exposure effect, mood congruency, mood management theory, motivational conflict, motivations, needs, negative reinforcement, nonsocial needs, opportunity, partial reinforcement, perceived risk, perception, perceptual defense, perceptual selection process, perceptual vigilance, performance risk, personality, personas, personal values, perceived risk, psychoanalytical theory, psychographics, psychological risk, quality, regulatory fit, retrieval failure, reversibility of decision, sadvertising, self-concept theory, semiotics, sensation, sensory memory, sensory threshold, short-term memory, social needs, socio-psychological theory, time, top-down processing, total value concept, trait theory, utilitarian value, value equation, value, value-seeking, wear-in, wear-out, Weber’s law.