Identification of Normal Aging and Disease-Related Processes by Health Care Professionals
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 27 (10) , 472-475
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1979.tb01730.x
Abstract
A 40-item quiz on aging was given to 46 health care professionals, before they participated in a workshop dealing with the care of the elderly patient. In the quiz, they were asked to identify physiologic and functional conditions either as normal aging processes or disease-related processes. In general, disease processes were the easier entities to identify and the workshop experience enhanced this effect. Ability to identify functional disorders correctly did not significantly differ from the ability to identify physiologic symptoms correctly. Implications for the general and mental health of older adults are discussed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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