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