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