aging final
A proportional majority of family caregivers living with how many miles of an older loved one to whom they provide care.
10 miles or less
Research on fitness trackers in older women provided evidence that walking approximately _________ steps daily can help to lower mortality rates.
10,000
As of 2019, there were a reported _____________ individuals, mostly 65 and older, receiving adult day services in the community.
286 thousand
The age-specific death rate is highest for which age group in the U.S.?
85 and older
Researchers believe that the main reason for the relationship between education and mortality appears to be due to which factor associated with higher education?
Better health and lifestyle habits
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prohibits which of the of following employment practices:
Discriminating against a person age 40 and older because they may be considered "too old" for the job
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is responsible for overseeing:
Federal and state funded health programs
Which of the following would not be considered an essential to human subjective well-being:
Remaining homebound and socially isolated
The concept of "death with dignity" as it developed in the late 20th Century implies which approach to dying patients?
Respecting their wishes to control their own death
Which of the following statements is false regarding family caregivers in the United States?
The vast majority of primary family caregivers are adult sons
A former software engineer retires from a job at a high-tech firm and soon after, takes a position as a substitute high school math teacher. The engineer is showing which late-life work pattern?
bridge retirement
The aging service network includes a wide array of community services established to support the independent, assisted, long-term, and end-of-life physical, mental, and social functioning needs of older adults. This is often referred to as the ____________.
continuum of care
A 66-year-old dentist retired from a group practice and moved to a different city to be closer to family. The dentist is an example of which retirement pattern?
crisp
A woman was diagnosed with terminal cancer but she is convinced that, despite the odds, she mother will survive this disease. The medical staff has made it clear that she only has months left to live. It appears that the woman is in which of the Kübler-Ross stages of dying?
denial
A woman's 90-year-old grandfather was in vigorous health right up until the time he died as the result of suddenly contracting a virus. His death came so suddenly that she only just made it home a few hours before his death. The grandfather's __________ fits the pattern of sudden death from an unexpected cause.
dying trajectory
The concept of "life space-life stages" in Super's theory is close to the ______________ model proposed by Bronfenbrenner.
ecological
Subjective well-being is believed to evolve from which of the two interactive attributes across time:
emotional regulation and appraisal
In 2000, the Administration for Community Living was formed by the U.S. federal government to support:
family caregivers at home
People seeking to purchase insurance through Part C of Medicare would be looking for plans called:
medicare advantage
The suicide rate is highest for which segment of the U.S. population?
men 65 years and older
The five types of elder abuse are physical, sexual, psychological, financial, and:
neglect
A 69-year-old woman has just relocated to a town closer to where her adult children and grandchildren live. She is trying to make new friends, but she still prefers connecting with the friends from the home she just left behind. Which theory provides the best explanation for this situation?
socioemotional selectivity
A healthcare proxy would be involved in which set of decisions for a dying patient?
specific life-sustaining treatments
The ___________ effect refers to the fact that people whose spouses die are more likely to die after losing their spouse.
widowhood
Social Security is "pay-as-you-go," meaning that:
your payroll tax goes toward current retiree benefits
The average cost per day (in dollars) of a semi-private room in a nursing home, according to the U.S. National Nursing Home Survey:
225
People whose social relationships are generally positive have a _____% lower mortality risk compared to those who do not
50
For profit facilities make up approximately _____% of all nursing homes in the United States.
70
The average cost per month (in dollars) of a private room in a nursing home, according to the U.S. National Nursing Home Survey:
7698
On average, experts contend that it takes older adults ____ years to fully recover emotionally and regain a sense of satisfaction with life in the aftermath of losing a spouse.
8
An older adult with a broken hip is sent to the hospital for surgery to repair the fracture. Complete recovery will require two weeks of intense care, which would most appropriately be provided in a/an:
Acute rehab facility
Which of the following is a criterion for culture change in nursing homes?
Allowing residents to have their privacy
A middle-aged man actively pursues dating women and desires a lifelong romantic partner, yet whenever he takes a woman on a date he often spends time talking about a former finance to whom who broke off an engagement when he was in his 20's. This exemplifies what type of attachment style during middle adulthood:
Anxious-ambivalent
Medicare, like Social Security, is a "pay-as-you-go" system, meaning that people paying into it now:
Are supporting current beneficiaries receiving services
Residents do best in long-term care facilities that engage in which practice?
Encouraging physical activity and social engagement during various therapuetic modalities
The fact that individuals of Hispanic origin have the longest life expectancy is referred to as the:
Hispanic mortality paradox
One of the key symptoms of LOSS, as shown particularly in older veterans, is the experience of:
Increased memories about an earlier traumatic experience
Jim, a 90-year old former school teacher, died less than 3 weeks following the death of his wife to whom he was married for 69-years. Jim's attending physician reported to family survivors that he likely died of a broken heart. What exactly does this mean in medical terms?
Jim died from a condition known as stress cardiomyopathy
According to Boss (1999), family members who unexpectedly experience a death of an loved one with no prior warning commonly experience frozen grief, or what she termed as a form of closure in which the loved one:
Leaves without saying goodbye
Patient advocates known as _____________ in long-term care institutions were guaranteed as part of nursing home reforms.
Ombudspersons
Family members caring for a loved one diagnosed with Alzehimer's Disease four years ago will likely experience what type of ambiguous loss?
Psychological
Research on evidence-based treatments for older adults suggests that the most effective approach should involve, as a first step:
Psychotherapy alone
What is TRUE regarding normative change(s) in social networks across time and into old age?
Social network size decreases
According to __________________ theory, members of a couple in a long-term relationship should prefer to spend time with each other rather than people they don't know very well.
Socioemotional selectivity
The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 included the provision that all hospital patients be given the opportunity to write a(n):
advance directive
The _______ death rate provides the most accurate statistical measure to index a country's "health."
age-adjusted
Weighted averages of deaths in the population on the basis of age are known as what type of death rate?
age-adjusted
Which of the following anxiety disorders shows the highest prevalence in adults 65 and older?
agoraphobia
The majority of direct care provided to patients in residential care facilities is provided by:
aides
As of 2016, 39% of individuals 85 and older in the U.S. are living:
alone in a household
A referral based system established within all states to provided older adults and their family caregivers with information ranging from local care providers to home maintenance and cleaning services is known as the__________.
area agencies on aging
Which of the following behaviors by an employer in screening job applicants would be an example of violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)?
asking for a year of high school graduation
Older adults who exit and reenter the labor force multiple times before officially retiring are said to follow a/an__________ process
blurred retirement
Sociodemographic conditions, such as age, race, and income, that impact how aging adults assess their life and experiences represent which approach to understanding subjective well-being development.
bottom-up
A physician's assistant in a group medical practice joins a local professional organization of physician's assistants in order to share ideas and make connections with people in the area working in the same occupation. The joining of the professional organization represents which idea in vocational development?
boundaryless career
The symptoms of depression in older adults include which of the following?
feelings of worthlessness
When children reach the age at which they enter adulthood, they and their parents experience a phenomenon known as:
filial maturity
In the U.S., the majority of suicides among men in later life involve which means of death?
firearms
A patient in the final stages of terminal cancer writes out her wishes for the amount of time she will be kept alive before entering hospice care. The ability to exert this degree of autonomy is reflected in the concept of the ___________ death.
good
Measures of successful aging that assess the emotions of older adults rather than how they think about their lives would include self-ratings of:
happiness
The age and performance "scorecard" lists which factor as contributing toward greater productivity in older workers?
having few absences
Which sector of long-term care employs a majority of registered nurses?
home health care
The most common diagnosis among residents of nursing homes is:
hypertension
Workers who fail to develop as optimally as possible are, in Holland's theory, referred to as:
incongruent
Since 2000 until today, the overall share of older Americans, aged 65 and older, in the workforce has _____ while overall employment has _____ across younger aged workers>
increased; decreased
A therapist is treating a couple who have just had their first child. In the second session, the therapist notes that the mother seems highly anxious about being left alone and seems to need constant reassurance. It's possible that the mother is showing _______________, which can place her at risk for difficulties in caring for her infant.
insecure attachment
People who want to become mathematicians, in the RIASEC model, would be high on which of the six types?
investigative
The number one deficiency in U.S. nursing homes in 2018, involving 45% of all institutions, was:
lack of infection control
Older adults in the _____________ relationship status have decided not to share the same household.
living apart together
People with which marital status have the highest age-adjusted mortality rate in the U.S.
never married
According to life course theory of retirement, retirees would be best able to adapt to this status by viewing it as a(n):
normative life event
According to the _____________________, it is surprising that older adults are able to maintain high levels of well-being than would be suggested by their actual situations in life.
paradox of well-being
The concept of _____________ accounts for people who have only superficial ties with others in their social circle.
peripheral ties
The set point perspective to successful aging proposes that the greatest influence on happiness levels in older adults is:
personality
According to Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, the act of maximizing emotionally gratifying ties above and beyond emotionally risky ties is believed to contribute to a __________.
positivity effect
The majority of home health agencies operate on what financial basis?
private; for-profit
The medical funding program known as Medicaid provides coverage for:
privately insured employees
A career counselor working with a client seeking to change occupations uses Holland's RIASEC model to determine that the client would feel most satisfied in a career as an accountant. This suggests that the client is high on which of the RIASEC types?
realistic
A nursing home that receives a deficiency rating on the dignity dimension fails in which aspect of care?
recognition of individuality
According to the CDC, aging-in-place refers to the individual ability to live in one's home based on what condition regardless of age, income, or ability level:
safety
Super's theory of vocational development assumes that people strive to express their __________ in their vocation.
self-concept
Which model of successful aging places the greatest emphasis on optimism?
set-point perspective
Holland's vocational development theory describes the RIASEC model, which stands for the:
six factors that make up the model
Attachment behavioral patterns expressed in late adulthood seem to be closely associated with:
social loss
Acute rehabilitation would be the most appropriate setting for recovery of an older adult patient with which medical condition?
stroke
Older adults who fracture their hips may have double the risk for mortality due to which potential complication?
systemic septic infection
Having majored in art during college for two years, as a junior the student realizes that in order to get a job, it will be necessary to get additional training in another field. The closest occupation in the RIASEC model to artist would be in which area?
teaching
According to the perspective known as ________________ Theory, activating a person's thoughts about death may trigger a set of positive changes, including closer relationships, greater creativity, and more connection to others.
terror management
A middle-aged woman and her brother consider each other their closest friends, even though both are in satisfying intimate relationships with spouses. Research suggests it is likely that these siblings feel so good about each other because:
their parents fostered warm and affectionate relationships
A study of retired vacationers showed that those who got the most out of their travels tended to:
use of time for self discovery and reflection
Part ___ of Medicare covers hospital stays and follow-up nursing home treatment.
A
According to Atchley's Phases of Retirement, when a person decides to terminate retirement, they will. . .
They will either re-enter the workforce or accept the conditions of their retirement
In the competence-press model of institutional adaptation, the "competence" function includes:
Whether the home is in a rural or urban location
What percentage of all marriages in the U.S. are second marriages?
13
Making sense of the story of your life prior to death is a process known as:
Legitimization of biography
Stipulations of the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act included ensuring that facilities:
Maintain resident confidentiality and privacy
Which aspect of death and dying in current Western society suggests a prevailing "invisible death" ethos?
Moving patients from home to hospitals to die
In the Kübler-Ross model of the five stages of dying, people who feel that they could change their odds after being diagnosed with a terminal disease by giving money to charity might be considered to be in which stage?
bargaining
According to research on self-determination theory, workers who experience high extrinsic motivation are likely to show which set of job behaviors?
greater quantity of work
At a recent 65th birthday party in her honor, Marjorie was asked, "Are you worried what the next stage of life holds?" Marjorie replied, "Not at all. I know a lot of people I can call if I need them." This demonstrates what support type.
anticipatory
