Gerontology & Older-Adult Care
Most LPN/LVN graduates work with older adults — and the NCLEX-PN tests it heavily. These guides cut to what actually shows up on the exam: telling normal aging from a real problem, keeping medications safe, and preventing falls.
Choose a Topic
Each guide covers only the older-adult content most commonly tested on the LPN/LVN exit exam and the NCLEX-PN — no fluff.
Normal Age-Related Changes
What changes with normal aging in every body system — and how to tell expected aging from a warning sign. The single highest-yield older-adult concept, including orthostatic changes, sensory loss, and why infection can show up as confusion.
Polypharmacy & Medication Safety
Why older adults react differently to drugs, the Beers Criteria "avoid" list, anticholinergic burden, high-alert drugs that need extra monitoring, and the medication review that catches duplications and interactions.
Falls: Risk & Prevention
Fall risk factors, the medications that cause falls, how to assess risk (Morse scale, orthostatic vitals), evidence-based prevention, why restraints are not the answer, and the correct post-fall nursing response.
Delirium, Dementia & Depression
The "3 D's" — how to tell them apart, the CAM, why delirium is a reversible emergency you can't miss, sundowning and pseudodementia, and the nursing care and safety priorities for each.
Restraints & Least-Restrictive Safety
What counts as a restraint, the alternatives you try first, the order and time-limit rules (no PRN, 1-hour face-to-face), safe application and monitoring, documentation, and when side rails become a restraint.
Elder Abuse & Neglect
The types of abuse, the warning signs, who's at risk, and the nurse's mandatory-reporting duty — report a reasonable suspicion to Adult Protective Services; you don't need proof.
Geriatric Assessment & Atypical Presentation
The function-first approach, atypical presentation (illness as confusion or a fall, not classic symptoms), ADLs vs IADLs (Katz & Lawton), cognitive and mood screening, and the key tools.
Test Yourself
Put it into practice with our free Gerontology quiz — 28 NCLEX-PN style questions with detailed rationales. Pick how many you want and choose Tutor or Exam mode.
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