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