Exam Review (Exam III)
In many cultures' especially non-industrialized cultures, the concept of middle age is:
Not very clear, or in some cases, absent
When he was interviewed at 80 years of age, Arthur Rubinstein said that he spent more time at practice than earlier in his life. This helped to maintain his status as an admired concert pianist. This reflects which aspect of Baltes' theory?
Optimization
This is the term for the type of care hospice emphasizes
Palliative care
Basilio sustained severe and irreversible brain damage due to an accidental overdose of insulin. His wife and his children decided to remove the life-support system, and Basilio subsequently died. This is an example of:
Passive
In a classic study, Judith Rodin and Ellen Langer found that an important factor related to health, and even survival, in a nursing home is the
Patients feelings of control and self-detrmintation
The concept of _____ emphasizes that changes in cognitive activity patterns might result in disuse and consequent atrophy of cognitive skills:
Use it or lose it
The life expectancy in Okinawa, Japan is:
81.2
Middle adulthood consist of this age range:
40/45-60/65
When women experience stress, they are more likely to engage in:
A tend and befriend pattern
Prejudice against a person on the basis of their age is called:
Ageism
Types of NSDs include:
Alzheimer's, Dementia, Lewy Body Syndrome
In 1900, most people died here:
At home
This is the reason for the decrease in height with age advancement:
Bone loss in the vertebrae
Illness is long-term, often lifelong, and requires long-term, if not life-term, management:
Chronic
At present, the main causes of death in middle adulthood in the United States are:
Chronic diseases
Older adults need to __________ when life tasks require a higher level of capacity:
Compensate
Remembering where a person went on vacation last summer is an example of ___________ memory:
Episodic
Life _________ is the number of years that the average person born in a particular year will probably live.
Expectancy
This biological theory of aging states that people age because when cells metabolize energy, the by-products contain unstable oxygen molecules.
Free Radical Theory
The idea that aging society is using all the resources and none will be left for the younger generation:
Generational inequity
In Erickson's, theory _________ encompasses adults' desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation.
Generatively
If the cortical death definition were adopted, then physicians could claim a person is dead when his or her ________ is no longer functioning.
Higher
Lillian is 50 years old. Her doctor has noticed a sharp decrease in her estrogen levels, and Lillian is complaining of nausea and fatigue. Based on these symptoms, what could be her initial diagnosis?
Menopause
The main goal of hospice is to:
Provide patients a comfortable death that is as pain free as possible.
The tendency of Middle aged adults having to care for their own adolescent children as well as their elderly parents has given them the nickname the __________ generation:
Sandwich
Voletta believes that older adults become more selective about their social networks as they age. She is a proponent of:
Socioemotional selectivity theory
Develops when individuals sense that they have done nothing for the next generation:
Stagnation
One important essential prerequisites to signing an advance directive, such as a living will, is:
The individual can think clearly
Is the expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life that permits practical judgement about important matters:
Wisdom
Most noticeable physical changes:
Wrinkles and age spots, Shorter with aging due to bone loss in their vertebrae, Older adults move slowly then young adults