Healthcare Disparities in Older Adults

4. Alzheimer’s disease is a form of _______.
5. Changing a will, getting one’s affairs in order, hoarding medications, and talking as if s/he won’t be around much longer may be signs of an older person’s plans for self-harm or _______.
7. Promoting mental health and effectively treating mental illness are important aspects of _______ aging.
8. A higher incidence or burden of sickness, injury or death experienced by one population group relative to another is called a health _______.
11. Health disparities are often experienced by socially _______ populations.
12. Language barriers between _______ and providers can result in a diminished level of healthcare.
13. Other social determinants of health that affect older adults’ health and wellbeing are environment, education, employment status and food _______.
14. _______ healthcare directives are legal documents that state how people would like their healthcare decisions handled at the point that they are not able to make those decisions on their own.
16. Legal status or fear of being reported can be _______ to patients seeking or receiving quality medical care.
17. When an older adult is cut off from the rest of the world, often due to anxiety or depression, it is called social _______.

1. While dementia is not treatable, the accompanying symptoms of _______ and depression are treatable with medications.
2. Although it is often a common mental health ailment among older adults, ________, or feelings of sadness, is not considered normal in later life.
3. Lack of social _______ and lack of transportation are both social determinants of health for older adults.
6. A type of palliative care for terminally ill patients, often provided in their own homes, is called _______.
7. Our values are influenced by family, community, political leaders, and religious or _______ beliefs.
8. Factors influenced by the environment in which a person is born, lives, grows, works and ages across their lifespan are called social _______ of health.
9. Trying to meet unrealistic social expectations to remain _______ and delaying seeking medical care, older adults may end up with more medical issues as a result.
10. Some social determinants of health that affect older adults’ health and wellbeing are addiction and mental health, stress, and socio-economic _______.
15. Our perception of _______ influences how we interact with the medical care system.
18. Because they react differently to medications than younger people, doses of psychiatric medications for _______ adults should be monitor closely and often adjusted down.