Sociology
Which action reflects ageism?
B. Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age sixty-five years old
Which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment
Being frail to the point of dependency on care
If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.
Caregivers
Veterans are two to four times more likely to ______ as people who did not serve in the military.
Commit suicide
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory
Disengagement
Which assertion about aging in men would be made by a sociologist following the functionalist perspective?
Men who remain active after retirement play supportive community roles
This measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is
Sex ratio
In most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men.
live a few years longer
Thanatology
the study of death and dying
In the United States, life expectancy rates in recent decades have
Continued to gradually rise
An older women retires and completely changes in her life. She is no longer raising children or working. However, she joins the YWCA to swim every day. She serves on the Friends of the Library board. She is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bunco on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the theory
Continuity
An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the _______ theory. a. activity b. continuity c. disengagement d. gerotranscendence
Disengagement
Who wrote the book on Death and Dying, outlining the five stages of grief
Elisabeth Kubler- Ross
Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is
Increasing
What is the primary driver of modernization theory
Industrialization
America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except
Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt
In Erik Erickson's developmental stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle
Overcoming despair to achieve integrity
The "graying" of the United States refers to
The increasing percentage of the population over sixty five years old
For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is ________.
The typical sequence of events in their lives
What is the approximate median age of the United States
Thirty Seven