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Typical Midterm
1. Changes in the organism throughout the life span occur in sequence, in the
following order:
 a) development and maturation
 b) development or maturation, senescence
 c) birth and maturation
 d) aging and development
2. The population group in the U.S. with the greatest proportion of elderly is:
 a. whites    b. African Americans   c. Hispanics    d. Native Americans
3. In order to understand age changes as distinct from age differences, it is
necessary to conduct:
 a. cross-cultural research
 b. cross-sectional research
 c. longitudinal research
 d. long-lasting studies of different ethnic groups
4. Changes that occur in sensory function, cognitive functioning and personality are a reflection of:
 a) chronological age        b) biological aging
 c) psychological aging     d) social aging
5. A researcher wants to determine the range of oral disease among the elderly by examining the mouths of all 200 residents of a skilled care facility. The findings cannot be generalized to all elderly because:
 a. the sample is not valid
 b. the data are not reliable
 c. the concept is not correctly measured
 d. the sample is not representative
6. A valid measure is one that:
 a. yields the same result from repeated measurements
 b. accurately reflects the concept it's intended to measure
 c. is used only in cross-sectional studies
 d. is used only in psychological testing
7. According to modernization theory, the status of the elderly declined because of:
 a. health technology that prolonged adult life
 b. scientific technology that made traditional occupation held by the elderly
obsolete
 c. urbanization
 d. all of the above
8. Senescence refers to:
 a. senility in old age
 b. the normal process of changes over time in the body
 c. abnormal changes that occur in the body with aging
 d. a type of gland in the body
9. Organ systems decline at differing rates among people. All of the following
factors influence this decline except:
 a. environmental toxins and stress
 b. heredity
 c. physical activity
 d. level of education
10. Physical activity among older persons can increase their:
 a. active life expectancy  b. expected life span
 c. feelings of depression   d. blood pressure
11. Slower reaction time with aging is most likely due to:
 a. a loss of brain mass
 b. a rapid accumulation of lipofuscin in the brain
 c. slower response of neurotransmitter
 d. anxiety about test taking
12. Increased complaints of pain among older persons are:
 a. often a sign of depression
 b. due to a lower threshold for pain with aging
 c. due to a higher threshold for pain with aging
 d. a normal concomitant of aging
13. A common cause of vision loss among older persons that can be surgically
corrected is:
 a. senile macular degeneration  b. glaucoma
 c. diabetic retinopathy      d. cataracts
14. When conversing with an older adult with hearing loss, which of the following communication skills is not likely to be helpful?
 a. using clear distinct articulation
 b. speaking in a loud, high pitched voice
 c. sitting on the side of the person so you may talk into their good ear
 d. using short sentences
15. Evaluations of health are often affected by:
 a. the historical time period             b. socioeconomic class
 c. ethnic minority status                  d. gender
 e. all of the above
16. Most older people perceive their health as _______ the health of their peers:
 a. better than   b. about the same  c. worse than   d. much worse than
17. Which of the following statements is true?
 a. The incidence of acute & chronic disease increases with age.
 b. The incidence of acute diseases decreases with age.
 c. Men have more chronic conditions than women.
 d. Biological factors play almost no role in gender differences related to health.
18. The component of intelligence that consists of skills acquired through a lifetime of experiences and education is known as:
 a. fluid intelligence             b. crystallized intelligence
 c. primary mental abilities  c. omnibus intelligence
19. Studies of learning conditions have found that older persons recall newly
learned information best:
 a. when given opportunity to guess
 b. under timed learning situations
 c. under self-paced conditions
 d. in tests of paired associates
20. Adult intelligence appears to be influenced by:
 a. education        b. initial level of intelligence
 c. verbal ability   d. all of the above
21. The decline in intelligence test scores just before death is known as:
 a. selective attrition  b. psychomotor slowing
 c. terminal drop       d. retrieval abilities
22. When visiting an older person in a nursing home, the most important type of sensory stimulation that a visitor might provide is:
 a. wearing bright colored clothing     c. wearing cologne
 b. touching the older person             d. feeding the older person
23. Gerontology is the field of study that examines diverse aspects of aging.
Geriatrics, on the other hand, focuses on:
 a.  early childhood development
 b. maturation
 c. diseases of aging
 d.  economic well-being in old age
24. Changes in the temperature regulatory system with aging result in a preference by older persons for ambient temperatures that are:
 a. 5 - 10 degrees warmer than for younger people
 b. 5 - 10 degrees cooler than for younger people
 c. 3 - 5 degrees cooler than for younger people
 d. 3 - 5 degrees warmer than for younger people
25. Selective dropout from longitudinal studies results in:
 a) poorer test scores with time
 b) healthier and more motivated elders in the final sample
 c) sicker and less educated elders in the final sample
 d) few differences between drop-outs and those who remain

26. Which of the following is FALSE concerning stereotypes?
 a) they are generalized beliefs about a group
 b) they are always negative
 c) they often are unrealistic
 d) they simplify our perception of the world around us
27. Which of the following is NOT a traditional source of power for the elderly in most societies?
 a) control of property
 b) filial piety within the extended family
 c) government benefits that accrue to older members
 d) knowledge
28. Maximum body size and strength generally reaches its peak at age:
 a) 15   b) 25   c) 35   d) 45
29. A major reason why many older people avoid using hearing aids is:
 a) they raise the volume of background noise
 b) they make it difficult to hear oneself talk
 c) they are a problem to keep clean
 d) you can't wear glasses and hearing aids together
30. The theoretical upper limit of an individual's ability to function in health,
cognition and behavior is known as:          
 a. individual competence
 b. social press
 c. individual adaptability
 d. maturation
31. The major cause of death among persons age 65 plus is:
 a. heart disease   b. cancer   c. stroke    d. accidents and suicides
32. Chronic illnesses are more prevalent and more disabling among:
 a. whites compared to nonwhites
 b. elderly in cities compared to rural areas
 c. older people of higher socioeconomic status
 d. women
33. Older African Americans have a disproportionately high incidence of:
 a. arteriosclerosis                b. hypertension
 c. cerebrovascular disease  c.  diabetes
34. A major advantage of longitudinal research designs is that they:
 a. allow for practice effects
 b. eliminate cohort effects
 c. allow a distinction between age and time by testing
 d. all of the above
35. Behavior of younger people toward the elderly can be accurately
predicted by their:
 a. stereotypes about aging and the elderly
 b. affect toward older people in general
 c. educational level
 d. none of the above
36. In the late 18th & early 19th centuries, demographic patterns shifted so that:
 a. parents generally lived many more years after their children   were born
 b. more elderly assumed positions of power and prestige
 c. more elderly were dependent on their children
 d. more multigenerational families lived together
37. According to Fischer, the decline in older people's status is due to:
 a. industrialization and civilization
 b. the increase in the number of older people
 c. our cultural values of liberty and equality
 d. modernization
38. Knowledge as a source of power for older people is often undermined in
societies where:
 a. scientific advances supersede traditional knowledge
 b. money assumes decreased value
 c. rituals become less formal
 d. educational institutions reject the contributions of older members
39. Growing older begins at
 a) birth
 b) the end of the teenage years
 c) the beginning of retirement years
 d) conception
40. Aging has very little effect upon:
 a) sensory memory
 b) short term memory
 c) long term memory
 d) retrieval of long term memory
41. Older workers do better at a job that:
 a) is self-paced
 b) requires very little physical effort
 c) requires very little mental thought
 d) is on a monotonous assembly line
42. The biological theory that proposes that each species has a biological clock that determines its maximum life span and the rate at which each organ system will deteriorate is know as:
 a. disengagement
 b. the cross-linkage theory
 c. the wear and tear theory
 d. the antioxidant theory
MATCHING
                                   a. original parents & children one home
43.  Nuclear Family
                                   b. a marriage in which both wife and
                                   husband have a career
44.  Blended Family
                                   c. equal sharing of traditionally
                                     sex-segregated roles
45.  Traditional Marriage
                                   d. marriage with children from
                                     previous marriage(s)
46.  Extended Family
                                                e. mutual self-fulfillment, partnership,
                                                individual identity
47. Companionship Marriage
                                                    f. rigid & inflexible role system-
                                                    division of labor
48. Egalitarian Marriage
                                                  g. three or more generations who
                                                  occupy the same household
49. Kyphosis is a condition in which:
 a. physical strength declines
 b. hair follicles deteriorate rapidly
 c. crush fractures occur in the spine
 d.   there is a shortage of vitamin D
50. Respiratory function in aging:
 a. declines at a similar rate among all elderly
 b. declines more slowly among physically active people
 c. is impaired primarily because of environmental pollutants
 d. is equally impaired in smokers and non-smokers
        National Institute on Aging's: What's Your Aging I.Q.?
51. Baby Boomers are the fastest growing            True  False
    segment of the population.
52. Families don't bother with their older              True  False
    relatives.
53. Everyone becomes confused or forgetful            True  False
    if they live long enough.
54. You can be too old to exercise.                         True  False
55. Heart disease is a much bigger problem            True  False
    for older men than for older women.
56. The older you get, the less you sleep.          True  False
57. People should watch their weight as            True   False
    they age.
58. Most older people are depressed.               True  False
    Why shouldn't they be?
59. There's no point in screening older                True  False
    people for cancer because they can't
    be treated.
60. Older people take more medications             True  False
    than younger people.
61. People begin to lose interest in sex            True  False
    around age 55.
62. If your parents had Alzheimer's                  True   False
    disease, you will inevitably get it.
63. Diet and exercise reduce the risk                 True  False
    for osteoporosis.
64. As your body changes with age, so              True  False
    does your personality.
65. Older people might as well accept                 True  False
    urinary accidents as a fact of life.
66. Suicide is mainly a problem for teenagers.      True  False
67. Falls and injuries "just happen" to                   True  False
    older people.
68. Everybody gets cataracts.                              True  False
69. Extremes of heat and cold can be especially   True  False
    dangerous for older people.
70. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."  True  False
MATCHING--draw lines connecting the correct purpose & design:
Example of                                    Research
Research Purpose                              Design
71. To learn what                              Experiment
    people think
72. To find out how                            Quasi-Experiment
    people behave
    in public
73. To find out                                Observation
    what people
    have done
74. To obtain reliable                         Survey: Interview
    information under
    controlled conditions
75. To assess the effects                      Existing Data
    of a social
    intervention
 In summary, empirical science is:
76)              --a rational activity based on logical reasoning
77)              --all phenomenon have antecedent causes that are subject to
identification and logical understanding
78)                  --the results must be open to evaluation and verification to others for additional study
79)                  --science must be ready to accept revision and change, since science is a process of trial and error--no single research design will provide the "ultimate answer."
80)                  --even though no two scientists are exactly alike with regards to subjective orientations, they still would arrive at the same conclusion upon doing the same experiment
81)              --scientists are concerned with being able to generalize their findings to other situations and populations
82)              --it is always necessary to clearly specify both the research problem and the methods and procedures which are used to measure the concepts under study
83)              --it uses as few explanatory factors as possible, disregarding what appears to be irrelevant factors
84) As societies become more advanced with improvements in health care and sanitation, the survival curve becomes:
 a) flatter    b) more rectangular   c) steeper   d) bimodal
85) Compared to their white counterparts, the proportion of African America men and women is highest among:
 a) baby boomers    b) young old   c) old-old   d) oldest-old
86) The population groups in the U.S. with the smallest proportion of people 65+ are:
 a) Whites and Hispanics
 b) African Americans and Whites
 c) Hispanics and American Indians
 d) Pacific Asians and African Americans
87) The distinction between active and dependent life expectancy is useful in
illustrating:
 a) differences between men and women
 b) that not all gains in life expectancy are positive
 c) that most of the gain in life expectancy is a negative gain
 d) the advantages of increased life expectancy for ethnic minorities
88) Ethical guidelines for conducting research with older persons:
 a) have not been developed
 b) have been published by the National Institute on Aging
 c) have been proposed by the AARP
 d) discourage conducting research with cognitively impaired elders
89) Benign neglect of older people is generally accepted:
 a) in all modern societies
 b) in traditional societies
 c) in some societies when the older person is physically or cognitively impaired
   d) in some societies when the older person provides no financial help to the family
90) All of the following interventions have been shown to improve active life
expectancy in lab animals EXCEPT:
 a) vitamin E
 b) growth hormone
 c) increasing hours of sleep
 d) caloric restriction
91) Reduced elasticity of connective tissue in the skin takes place with aging in:
 a) the epidermis
 b) the dermis
 c) melanin
 d) subcutaneous skin
92) An older person who is experiencing problems with depth perception could improve their home environment by:
 a) using color contrast where different levels meet
 b) using bright patterns on carpets throughout the house
 c) avoiding dark colors
 d) putting signs at the top of every stairway
93) The major risk factor for cardiovascular disease is:
 a) hypotension
 b) hypertension
 c) atherosclerosis
 d) diabetes
94) Risk factors for falls include all of the following EXCEPT:
 a) inactivity
 b) visual impairments
 c) meds that can cause postural hypotension
 d) overexertion
95) Associating new information with an image has been found to be useful for older people as a:
 a) method of finding their way around a new place
 b) method of enhancing creativity
 c) way of remembering where they have placed their belongings
 d) method of visualizing newly learned words or concepts
96) Which of the following is true?
 a) little sexual pleasure is possible for males with irreversible impotence
 b) a major barrier for older women to be sexually active is lack of a partner
 c) tranquilizers heighten sexual performance
 d) older men ejaculate more quickly
97) A recent positive change in the treatment of menopause is:
 a. use of prescription drugs
 b. use of estrogen
 c. increased use of nonmedical approaches and social support
 d. none of the above
98.  Collegen tissue changes the composition and elasticity of the lens with aging. This results in problems with:
 a) senile macular degeneration
 b) peripheral vision
 c) accommodation
 d) depth perception
99) All of the following changes occur in the body composition with advancing age EXCEPT:
 a) an increase in the proportion of fat
 b) an increase in fibrous material
 c) an increase in the sodium/potassium ratio
 d) an increase in the proportion of water
100) The fastest growing segment of our population is:
Typical Final
 -- mark the BEST answer:
1. Compared to younger persons, people over age 65:
 a. are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol
 b. are more likely to take prescription and over-the-counter drugs
 c. are more likely to seek psychiatric help for alcoholism
 d. are less likely to be affected by multiple medications
2. Older people are more likely than younger people to:
 a. discuss but rarely complete a suicide attempt
 b. successfully carry out a suicide
 c. seek psychiatric help to prevent a suicide
 d. provide many cues about an impending suicide
3.           people actually have more memory lapses than do
               people, but the later tend to blame themselves much more while the former more easily over look the memory lapses.

4. Future cohorts of older persons will experience:
 a. more opportunities for job retraining
 b. increased alternatives to full-time work after retiring
 c. a greater proportion of their lives in retirement
 d. all of the above
5. Medicare covers the following health care costs:
 a. the full amount charged by health providers
 b. prescription drugs
 c. dental care
 d. hearing and eye exams
 e. none of the above
6. The term "Sandwich Generation", refers to adults who:
7-8. A study by Stone, Cafferata, and Sangl in 1987 provides some insight into the average caregiver.  They found that:
7)   The majority of caregivers are women (   %)
8)   with an average age of    .3 years.
9. Middle-aged adult children are experiencing growing pressures to provide care to their older parents because:
 a. The current cohort of elderly had fewer children than previous generations
 b. the proportion of people age 85+ has grown more rapidly than any other age group
 c. public funds for in-home care are limited
 d. all of the above
10. Fear of crime is highest among older persons who:
 a. own their own homes
 b. live on isolated farms
 c. live in central cities
 d.  are economically independent
 e. none of the above
11. The primary reason people seek employment after retirement is:
 a. the desire to make a contribution to the community
 b. the desire for the sociability of the job
 c. the need to supplement retirement income
 d. boredom
 e. none of the above
12. Among all age groups, the poorest are:
 a. the young old, aged 60-65
 b. all women over the age of 65
 c. ethnic minority men over age 75
 d. ethnic minority women over age 75
13. The double jeopardy hypothesis, as first advanced by Tally and Kaplan,
suggests that:
 a. With age, differences in income, health and life expectancy diminish.
 b. Women face more disadvantages than men as they age.
 c. Lifetime factors of economic and racial discrimination make it more difficult for ethnic minorities to adjust to old age than for whites.
14. The average age for a woman to become a widow is:
 a. 56     b. 60   c. 70     c. 45
15. Which is true regarding Hispanic American elderly?
 a. The majority live in rural areas.
 b. They are composed of several different subgroups. each with a distinct
national/cultural heritage.
 c. They use health services proportionately more than whites and other ethnic
minorities.
 d. Their median age is significantly higher than whites and other ethnic minorities.
16. Which of the following would serve to increase the use of social and health services by ethnic minorities?
 a. increased numbers of bilingual staff
 b. centralized services so that all ethnic minorities could utilize one focal point for services
 c. transportation provided to services
 d. a and c above
 e. all of the above
17. Older widows may find widowhood to be more difficult than older widowers do because:
 a. They were not socialized to expect this.
 b. They have fewer friends after their husband dies.
 c. They move in with adult children shortly after their spouse's death.
 d. They are more likely to face financial hardships than widowers
18. Which of the following is true regarding Social Security?
 a. It provides an adequate retirement income for most retirees.
 b. The Social Security trust funds will go bankrupt in the next 5-75 years.
 c. It is based on the concept of earned rights (benefits paid in proportion to what a person had paid into the system).
 d. All elderly qualify for Social Security.
 e.  all of the above
19. Social Security affects older women in which of the following ways?
 a. Women's benefits tend to be lower than men's.
 b. Widows with survivors' benefits generally receive lower benefits than retired workers do.
 c. Women who are divorced before ten years of marriage are not entitled to any of their former husband's benefits.
 d. A homemaker receives no Social Security credit for her work.
 e. all of the above.
20. The Social Security system is characterized by:
 a. universal eligibility for all persons
 b. ensuring sufficient retirement income
 c. providing a minimum floor of protection
 d. all of the above
21. The primary source of funding of social services for the elderly is:
 a. Medicare and Medicaid
 b. Social Security
 c. Supplemental Security Income
 d. the Older Americans Act and Title XX
22. The most prevalent psychiatric disorder in old age is:
 a. depression   b. dementia
 c. paranoia    d.  schizophrenia
23. Suicide rates among different age and ethnic groups and between men and
women:
 a. do not vary widely
 b. are highest in young males, lowest in white females
 c. are highest among older white males, lowest in non-white females
 d. are highest among older Black males, lowest in white females

24. It is often difficult to diagnose depression in older people because:
 a. They show no symptoms
 b. They are more likely to complain of mood changes.
 c. They are more likely to interpret it as memory problems.
 d. They do not believe in the value of medical interventions for depression.
25. Which of the following are barriers to older persons' seeking assistance for psychiatric symptoms?
 a. social stigmas about psychiatric disorders
 b. mental health service providers' attitudes
 c. attributions of the psychiatric symptoms to physical conditions
 d. a and c above
 e.  all of the above
26. The greatest barriers to national health care reform are:
 a) American cultural values on universal access
 b) the resistance of insurance companies and businesses
 c) the unwillingness of physicians to change
 d) none of the above
27. The percentage of the federal budget spent on social services and entitlements to older adults is approximately:
 a) 10%    b) 30%    c) 50%    d) 66%
28. The chances of an older American being institutionalized at some time during his/her lifetime is:
 a. around 50%        b.  20%   c. 10%      d. less than 5%
29. Allowing a person to die by not using all available interventions, including
feeding, is called:
 a. passive euthanasia   b. active euthanasia
 c. mercy killing    d. none of the above
30. Studies of fear of death indicate that:
 a. the elderly are more fearful of death than the young
 b. fear of death increases among those with terminal conditions
 c. most elderly do not think of death very much
 d. the elderly typically have fewer fears about death than younger people do
 e. none of the above
31. Which of the following is not a stage in the dying process, as presented by
Kubler-Ross?
 a. denial    b. hope   c. anger    d. bargaining   e. acceptance
32. The general public's view of the "right to die" is that:
 a. It is immoral
 b. Active euthanasia is best.
 c. People of all ages should have the right to refuse treatment
 d. Only the elderly should have the right to refuse treatment.
 e. Only the terminally ill should have the right to refuse treatment.
33. A living will is a document that states:
 a. the terms of the writer's estate
 b. what medical action, if any, should be taken if the writer becomes mentally
incompetent or terminally ill
 c. the writer's religious belief
34. Don's wife is terminally ill, and he has begun to grieve. This is called
_____________ grief.
 a. primary         b. false
 c. sustained        d. anticipatory
35. All ethnic minority population share the following characteristics:
 a. The young outnumber the old.
 b. Their median age is lower than for the white population.
 c. They face more economic and health problems than the white population does.
 d. b & c above
 e. all of the above
36. The development of policies for the elderly has benefitted from:
 a. our cultural value on individual responsibility
 b. public perceptions of the elderly as more deserving than other age groups
 c. the fiscal conservatism of the 1980's
 d.  the government's long-range planning capabilities
37. Estes' critique of the manner in which social policies for the elderly have
developed in our society is that:
 a. Human service professionals have benefitted more than low-income elderly.
 b. Older people are defined as a social problem rather than looking at underlying structural causes of problems.
 c. The solution to the problems of older people tends to be to provide medical services.
 d. Older people are perceived as different from other age groups, therefore requiring separate services.
 e. all of the above
38. Which of the following factors affects the revenues available in the Social
Security trust fund?
 a. levels of unemployment
 b. changes in the age of eligibility for Social Security benefits
 c. the changing dependency ratios
 d. all of the above
39. The agency responsible for administering the programs and services of the Older Americans Act is:
 a. the Social Security Division
 b. the Administration on Aging
 c. the Federal Council on Aging
40. Which of the following is/are viewpoints advanced by supporters of the
intergenerational inequity perspective?
 a. Younger people will not receive fair returns for their Social Security investments.
 b. Children are poorer than the elderly.
 c. The elderly and younger people have both been hard hit by inflation.
 d. a and b above
41. Which of the following does not characterize the politics of the "New Aging"?
 a. an intergeneration perspective
 b. the diversity of the elderly
 c. an age-based perspective on services
 d. a concern for future generations
42. Which of the following is true of Medicaid?
 a. Provides coverage for a limited amount of health services.
 b. It offers basic hospital & optional supplementary insurance.
 c. it finances medical care primarily for low-income people who are receiving public assistance or SSI.
 d. It covers medical care costs for people 65 years of age and older as well as for disabled Social Security beneficiaries.
 e. none of the above
43. Medicare is designed to serve:
 a. low-income elderly  b. institutionalized persons
 c. disabled elderly     d. all persons age 65 and over
44. Attempting to control Medicare costs, the federal government has:
 a. offered incentives for preventive health care
 b. instituted co-payments and diagnostic related groupings
 c. substantially increased the monthly premiums required for Part B
 d. attempted to change systems of third party private insurance payments
 e. all of the above
45. Medicaid public expenditures have grown more rapidly than the federal inflation rate because:
 a. Medicaid funds are administered by states.
 b. There has been a rapid increase in the number of Medicaid recipients.
 c. Medicaid recipients disproportionately use costly health services.
 d. There have been substantial price increases charged by health care providers.
 e. all of the above
46. Older people may be reluctant to apply for Medicaid because:
 a. It can carry the stigma of welfare.
 b. Some physicians are unwilling to treat Medicaid recipients.
 c. They will have fewer nursing home options open to them.
 d. They must first exhaust their own resources on medical expenses.
 e. all of the above
47. Demographic trends of the future suggest that people who are over age 65 in the 21st century:
 a. will make up the majority of the population
 b.  will be less educated than the current cohort of elderly
 c. will have proportionately fewer young to take care of them
 d. will be more likely to rely on federal financial assistance
48. Changes in fertility rates have resulted in a situation where:
 a. more adult children are available as caregivers for the aged
 b. Women can expect to spend more years caring for a parent than a child
 c. women can expect to spend more years caring for children than for older relatives
 d. have many members of step-families to care for them
49. First time grandparenthood today generally occurs:
 a. at an earlier age
 b. at a later age
 c. at a wide variety of ages
 d. more often with step-grandchildren than with natural grandchildren
50. Despite increasing life-expectancy, married couples today are no more likely to reach their golden wedding anniversary than in the past because:
 a. Divorce rates have increased.
 b. Death rates among the old-old have not declined.
 c. Marriage takes place much later today than in the past.
 d. Life expectancy for older men has not improved.
 e. none of the above
51. The increased number of women in the workforce has resulted in the following changes in caregiving responsibilities & services:
 a. more men assuming caregiving roles
 b. greater demands on women to provide caregiving in addition to their employment
 c. increased support from the federal government for parental care
 d. all of the above
52. Future cohorts of older people will view leisure as:
 a. a reward for many years of work
 b. difficult to achieve because od demands for lifelong employment
 c. a continuation of their lifestyle during their working years
 d. something to avoid because it is contrary to the work ethic
53-54. List at least 2 suggestions in the guide to help prevent falling accidents of older adults:
55-56. List at least 2 suggestions to help prevent crime against older adults at home:
57-58. List at least 2 suggestions to help prevent crime against older adults at on the street:
59-60. List at least 2 suggestions to help prevent crime against older adults relating to consumer fraud:
61-66. List at least 6 programs that Senior Citizen Centers are to provide to Senior Citizens as an "information and resource" center to them:
67-74. (7 points) Describe, in as much detail as you can (the when, what, who, why and how), any TWO of the following programs:  
a. Medicare-Title 18     b. Social Security Administration
 c. Older Americans Act  d.SSI      e.Medicaid
75. Define Multiple Jeopardy:
76 Define Primary Impact:
77-79. Before you accept a diagnosis that your relative has a non-reversible
dementing illness, a series of 5 examinations should be given and interpreted. Name at least 3 of them:
80-85. Discuss and define prejudice:
90.-94 Discuss and define discrimination:
95. Discuss and define "ethnocentricity."
96-100. Discuss one or two of the major findings of your projects, relating them to the concepts found in your textbook. Try to use the correct vocabulary to explain yourself.

 

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