- acute pain
- caused by injury, surgery, illness, trauma, or by a medical procedure that is short term in duration
- ageism
- discrimination against older adults
- analgesics
- class of drug specifically created to relieve pain
- anhedonia
- inability to feel pleasure
- chronic pain
- lasts over three months
- codependency
- imbalanced relationship where a person enables another person’s self-destructive behavior
- cognitive impairment
- alteration in cognition that causes a decline in memory and thinking that happens with age and many medical and inherited factors
- comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)
- multidisciplinary assessment that identifies the functional, medical, and psychosocial capabilities in an older adult
- ego integrity
- resolution of crises and acceptance of life in final stages
- healthy aging
- supporting the body and well-being, including functional ability through aging
- ineffective coping
- inability to employ personal strategies to manage psychological distress
- nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- medications that provide mild to moderate pain relief and also reduce fever and inflammation by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins
- opioids
- compound drug that is derived from or synthetically resembles opium and has addictive properties
- organizational health literacy
- degree to which organizations enable individuals to find, understand, and use information to make informed, health-related decisions
- outcome
- client behavior that can be measured in response to an intervention used by a nurse
- pain scales
- tool used to measure pain as reported by clients
- personal health literacy
- ability to obtain, understand, synthesize, communicate, and apply health-related information
- pseudodementia
- reversible cognitive impairment caused by severe depression
- quality of life (QOL)
- extent to which life is comfortable or satisfying
- self-management
- person’s active involvement in their own health-care decisions and intervention to promote their own best possible wellness with the help of the medical team
- tolerance
- when the same dose of a drug has been given repeatedly, clients demonstrate a reduced response to pain medication
- transition of care
- movement of a client from one setting to another, including their care plan
- worry
- to think about problems or issues that may happen in the future that cause anxiety