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Aging
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health-sciences
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Which age group is most at risk of suicide?
Episodic Memory
Family Members
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Alzheimer's Disease
2. Progressive - chronic - and usually irreversible group of conditions - like emphysema - in which the lungs have a diminished capacity for inspiration and expiration
Macular Degeneration
Presbycusis
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
2 Million
3. 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.
Presbycusis
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Approximately 5%
Leisure
4. Federal definitions of elder abuse - neglect - and exploitation appeared for the first time in the
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Involves narrowing and adapting activities and skill in order to maximize performance.
Macular Degeneration
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
5. Measures working (economically active) and dependent (non-economically active) people: In the year 2000 - it was 8 to 1.
1. Fear 2. Frustration 3. Inferiority 4. Guilt
Seniors age 85+
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Dependency Ratio
6. Most common mental health problem among the elderly.
Dependency Ratio
Depression
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
7. 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.
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
Delirium
urinary system
Interiority
8. Memory of a skill or procedure
Skin
Episodic Memory
implicit memory
2 Million
9. Selling an older adult a product or service that s/he does not necessarily need is not considered
implicit memory
Universal Design
Disengagement Theory
Fraud
10. Approximately how many older Americans (reported cases) are abused each year?
Adult Onset Diabetes
2 Million
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
urinary system
11. How many of the human senses decline with age?
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
All 5 senses decline with age.
Disengagement Theory
Skin
12. Older adults indicated that their favorite leisure time activity was
Adult Onset Diabetes
1. Fear 2. Frustration 3. Inferiority 4. Guilt
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Activity 'Common Sense' Theory
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
Seniors age 85+
Aricept
All 5 senses decline with age.
14. Memory associated with the recollection of names - numbers - or directions.
2 Million
30%
explicit memory
Osteoporosis
15. Which age group is the fastest growing among older adults?
85+
Working Memory
All 5 senses decline with age.
2 Million
16. Memory associated with thinking about two or more things at once.
Facilitative Arousal
Stereotype
Family Members
Working Memory
17. Ansley's formula for mental health involved the 'As' and the FFIGs.' The acronym 'FFIG' includes
1. Fear 2. Frustration 3. Inferiority 4. Guilt
Alzheimer's Disease
Seniors age 85+
Environmental Press
18. Activities of Daily Living
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
Episodic Memory
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
19. 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
Women
Disengagement Theory
50 percent
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
20. A generalized image of a person or group - which does not acknowledge individual differences.
Stereotype
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Fraud
21. Thickening; loss of elasticity - and calcification (hardening) or arterial walls.
Macular Degeneration
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
Arteriosclerosis
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
22. Progressive loss of hearing with aging - typically resulting from sensorineural hearing loss.
Environmental Press
Macular Degeneration
Presbycusis
Florida
23. How many people that live in nursing homes have Alzheimer's Disease or a related disorder?
700 plus (there is not an exact figure)
Disengagement Theory
50 percent
Competence and Warmth
24. The social and physical demands placed on an individual by their environment.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Working Memory
Universal Design
Environmental Press
25. Who lives longer - men or women?
Activities related to personal care including bathing or showering - dressing - getting in or out of bed or a chair - using the toilet - and eating.
2 Million
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Women
26. Reasons Why people are living longer lives includes
Facilitative Arousal
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
Family Members
27. Memory associated with time and place.
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.
Facilitative Arousal
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
28. According to your text - in 2005 - more older adults live in _______________ then any other state?
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Florida
Arteriosclerosis
85+
29. 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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30. 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)
Aricept
Women
Episodic Memory
Multi-Infarct Dementia
31. What is considered to be the largest of the body's organs?
Dependency Ratio
Disengagement Theory
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Skin
32. Degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea which results in blurred vision and can cause blindness
Presbycusis
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Women
Macular Degeneration
33. An older individual's house is considered a part of his or her _____________ environment.
85+
30%
Micro
Environmental Press
34. Successful aging requires replacement of lost roles with new ones.
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35. Approximately 2/3 of all elder abuse is caused by
explicit memory
Family Members
Multi-Infarct Dementia
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
36. Name one drug current approved by the FDA to treat Alzheimer's Disease?
Multi-Infarct Dementia
1987 Amendments to the Older Americans Act
Aricept
30%
37. 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.
Universal Design
Dependency Ratio
30%
50 percent
38. 1. Extroversion 2. Neuroticism 3. Conscientiousness 4. Agreeableness 5. Openness to Experience/Intellect
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Micro
Competence and Warmth
Universal Design
39. What percentage of older Americans live in nursing homes?
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Reading at 30% according to a Harris Poll.
Fraud
Approximately 5%
40. Suicide among the elderly is a real concern. Which age group has the highest rate of suicide in the U.S.?
Adult Onset Diabetes
Working Memory
Seniors age 85+
Florida
41. A drug that is currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
Aricept
Micro
Dependency Ratio
2 Million
42. 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
Adult Onset Diabetes
Depression
Environmental Press
Fraud
43. How many muscles are there in the human body?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
700 plus (there is not an exact figure)
Adult Onset Diabetes
Presbycusis
44. A growing introspection - a change in focus from the external environment to the person's interior world.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Fraud
50 percent
Interiority
45. Physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity that is long term or permanent. This is a societal term.
Macular Degeneration
Adult Onset Diabetes
disability
Stereotype
46. Which one of the following components of leisure states - 'what may be a challenge for one person - may not be for another?'
Activity 'Common Sense' Theory
Facilitative Arousal
85+
Interiority
47. Two primary dimensions of stereotypes (Cuddy and Fiske - 2002)
Competence and Warmth
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
Alzheimer's Disease
According to the National Institute of Mental Health - Older Americans are disproportionately likely to die by suicide.
48. Condition of decreased bone density and increased porosity - causing bones to become brittle and liable to fracture
Aricept
Osteoporosis
700 plus (there is not an exact figure)
Alzheimer's Disease
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.
Dependency Ratio
Florida
1. Domestic elder abuse 2. Institutional elder abuse 3. Self-neglect or self-abuse
Delirium
50. How many older adults become scam victims in the United States each year?
30%
Competence and Warmth
Big 5 Personality Taxonomy
Depression