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Aging
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The social and physical demands placed on an individual by their environment.
Environmental Press
2 Million
implicit memory
Interiority
2. How many of the human senses decline with age?
Fraud
urinary system
All 5 senses decline with age.
Delirium
3. How many older adults become scam victims in the United States each year?
Fraud
Adult Onset Diabetes
Women
30%
4. Older adults indicated that their favorite leisure time activity was
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
impairment
All 5 senses decline with age.
Family Members
5. A drug that is currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
Episodic Memory
Aricept
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
700 plus (there is not an exact figure)
6. Consists of the kidneys - urinary bladder - and ducts that combine to carry urine - Removes waste products from the blood pH - ion balance - and water balance.
Disengagement Theory
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
urinary system
Seniors age 85+
7. Which age group is most at risk of suicide?
Stereotype
Dependency Ratio
Delirium
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
8. The design of communications - products and environments to be usable by all people to the greatest extent possible - without the need for adaptation or specialized design.
Interiority
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Universal Design
Presbycusis
9. How many muscles are there in the human body?
85+
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
700 plus (there is not an exact figure)
Episodic Memory
10. Approximately 2/3 of all elder abuse is caused by
Working Memory
Family Members
Aricept
1. lower infant mortality rates (immunization shots) 2. medical advances (vaccines and cures for infectious diseases) 3. treatment for chronic conditions 4. lifestyle changes 5. improved public transportation (AARP - 1995; Neugarten & Neugarten - 199
11. Name the 3 basic types of Elder Abuse.
Micro
Facilitative Arousal
1. lower infant mortality rates (immunization shots) 2. medical advances (vaccines and cures for infectious diseases) 3. treatment for chronic conditions 4. lifestyle changes 5. improved public transportation (AARP - 1995; Neugarten & Neugarten - 199
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
12. According to your text - in 2005 - more older adults live in _______________ then any other state?
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
explicit memory
Disengagement Theory
Florida
13. A loss or abnormality of anatomical - physiological - mental - or psychological structure or function. One can have an impairment and not be considered disabled.
impairment
Interiority
700 plus (there is not an exact figure)
Episodic Memory
14. Who lives longer - men or women?
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
50 percent
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Women
15. Thickening; loss of elasticity - and calcification (hardening) or arterial walls.
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Arteriosclerosis
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Aricept
16. Physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity that is long term or permanent. This is a societal term.
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
Aricept
Women
disability
17. Memory associated with the recollection of names - numbers - or directions.
All 5 senses decline with age.
Approximately 5%
Depression
explicit memory
18. Too little insulin or cells insensitive to insulin. Increases in late adulthood becaUse of either genetics or inactivity (abdominal fat is indicative). Risk of long-term damage in circulatory system - eyes - kidneys - nerves - and brain. Treatment is
Depression
Adult Onset Diabetes
Macular Degeneration
Presbycusis
19. Progressive loss of hearing with aging - typically resulting from sensorineural hearing loss.
Presbycusis
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
implicit memory
Activity 'Common Sense' Theory
20. How many people that live in nursing homes have Alzheimer's Disease or a related disorder?
2 Million
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
50 percent
Activity 'Common Sense' Theory
21. Name one drug current approved by the FDA to treat Alzheimer's Disease?
Activity 'Common Sense' Theory
Aricept
Episodic Memory
Working Memory
22. What is considered to be the largest of the body's organs?
urinary system
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Skin
Adult Onset Diabetes
23. Progressive - chronic - and usually irreversible group of conditions - like emphysema - in which the lungs have a diminished capacity for inspiration and expiration
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Activity 'Common Sense' Theory
1. Fear 2. Frustration 3. Inferiority 4. Guilt
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
24. Reasons Why people are living longer lives includes
2 Million
1. lower infant mortality rates (immunization shots) 2. medical advances (vaccines and cures for infectious diseases) 3. treatment for chronic conditions 4. lifestyle changes 5. improved public transportation (AARP - 1995; Neugarten & Neugarten - 199
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Working Memory
25. Activities of Daily Living
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Interiority
Episodic Memory
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
26. Ansley's formula for mental health involved the 'As' and the FFIGs.' The acronym 'FFIG' includes
1. Fear 2. Frustration 3. Inferiority 4. Guilt
Episodic Memory
Interiority
Family Members
27. Most common mental health problem among the elderly.
Depression
Aricept
Competence and Warmth
1. lower infant mortality rates (immunization shots) 2. medical advances (vaccines and cures for infectious diseases) 3. treatment for chronic conditions 4. lifestyle changes 5. improved public transportation (AARP - 1995; Neugarten & Neugarten - 199
28. A growing introspection - a change in focus from the external environment to the person's interior world.
Alzheimer's Disease
50 percent
Interiority
Dependency Ratio
29. Two primary dimensions of stereotypes (Cuddy and Fiske - 2002)
Depression
Competence and Warmth
Presbycusis
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
30. Measures working (economically active) and dependent (non-economically active) people: In the year 2000 - it was 8 to 1.
Dependency Ratio
Adult Onset Diabetes
Episodic Memory
Multi-Infarct Dementia
31. A generalized image of a person or group - which does not acknowledge individual differences.
Delirium
Stereotype
Alzheimer's Disease
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
32. What percentage of older Americans live in nursing homes?
Episodic Memory
Fraud
implicit memory
Approximately 5%
33. Degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea which results in blurred vision and can cause blindness
Episodic Memory
Stereotype
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
Macular Degeneration
34. A disorder characterized by the proliferation of certain abnormalities in the cerebral cortex - called plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Approximately 4 million Americans have the disease.
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35. Which age group is the fastest growing among older adults?
Skin
85+
explicit memory
Florida
36. An older individual's house is considered a part of his or her _____________ environment.
Leisure
Micro
Working Memory
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
37. Federal definitions of elder abuse - neglect - and exploitation appeared for the first time in the
explicit memory
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
Skin
Adult Onset Diabetes
38. Successful aging requires replacement of lost roles with new ones.
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39. 1. Extroversion 2. Neuroticism 3. Conscientiousness 4. Agreeableness 5. Openness to Experience/Intellect
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Working Memory
Osteoporosis
85+
40. Which one of the following components of leisure states - 'what may be a challenge for one person - may not be for another?'
Depression
85+
50 percent
Facilitative Arousal
41. The second most common (15%) type of dementia. Sporadic - progressive loss of intellectual functioning. Caused by repeated temporary obstruction of blood flow in cerebral arteries ('mini-strokes'-TIA)
Multi-Infarct Dementia
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
Universal Design
42. Condition of decreased bone density and increased porosity - causing bones to become brittle and liable to fracture
2 Million
Osteoporosis
50 percent
Alzheimer's Disease
43. Memory of a skill or procedure
implicit memory
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Osteoporosis
Seniors age 85+
44. Selling an older adult a product or service that s/he does not necessarily need is not considered
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
Women
Fraud
Presbycusis
45. Memory associated with thinking about two or more things at once.
urinary system
Working Memory
Multi-Infarct Dementia
impairment
46. Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC)
Arteriosclerosis
85+
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
Seniors age 85+
47. Permission to do as one pleases at one's own pace - to participate in an activity of one's own choice - and to abandon the activity.
impairment
Leisure
urinary system
Alzheimer's Disease
48. Older individuals willingly withdraw from society while at the same time society is withdrawing from the individual. This is a mutually satisfying process. Individual is less concerned with social approval and more ego-centric
Aricept
Disengagement Theory
Environmental Press
Working Memory
49. A cognitive disorder that is characterized by temporary but acute confusion that can be caused by diseases of the heart and lungs as well as infection or malnutrition.
Delirium
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
Skin
Environmental Press
50. Approximately how many older Americans (reported cases) are abused each year?
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
Arteriosclerosis
2 Million
Skin