Chapter 8: Human Needs and Human Development

Psychological needs (we help with these through ADLs)

• Food and Water

• Shelter and protection

• Activity

• Sleep and Rest

• Comfort, freedom from pain

Pyschosocial needs (we help with these through ADLs)

• Love and affection

• Acceptance by Others

• Safety and Security

• Self-reliance and independence in daily living

Physiological needs

the process and activities that keep living things alive

Psychosocial needs

the social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality

Holistic care

caring for the whole person, the mind as well as the body/

Sexual orientation

a person’s physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another

Gender identity

a deep sense of ones’s gender

Cisgender

a person’s who gender matches the person’s birth sex

Coming out

a continual process of revealing one’s sexual orientation or gender identity to others

Cross-dresser

typically a straight man who something where clothing items associated with females

Race

typically referring to physical characteristics

Ethnicity

typically a combination of race, culture, nationality, language, and other factors

Reincarnation

proper conduct and wisdom release a person from desire, suffering, and a repeating sequence of births and deaths

Karma

the result of actions in past lives, and actions in the life can determine one’s destiny in future lives

Agnostics

they do not know or cannot know wether God exists

Family

the level of support and connection people have not necessarily the biological relationship

Premature

born more than three weeks before the due date

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

a condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep

Cognitive

related to thinking and learning

Chickenpox

a highly contagious, viral illness and usually affects adults with a weakened immune system. Can be prevented through vaccination.

Leukemia

form of cancer that reduces the ability of the body’s white blood cells to fight disease

Anorexia

an eating disorder in which a person does not eat or exercises excessively to loose weight

Bulimia

binges, eating large amounts of food or fat foods, and then purges, or eliminates the food by vomiting, using laxatives, or exercising excessively

Menopause

the end of menstruation (when a women has not had her period for 12 months), when the ovaries stop secreting hormones

Geriatrics

the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in older and elderly adults

Gerontology

the study of aging process in people from midlife through old age

Developmental disabilities

disabilities, that are present at birth or emerge during Childs hood, up to age 22, a chronic condition that restricts physical and/or mental ability

Cerebral Palsy

suffered brain damage either while in the uterus or during birth

• May lack control of the head, have trouble using the arms and hands, and have poor balance or posture

Spine bifida

• means “split spine”

• part of the backbone is not well developed at birth, the spinal cord may bulge out of the person’s back