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