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