Chapter 13

If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by:

Caregivers

The measure that compares the # of men to women in a population is:

Sex ratio

Thanatology is the study of:

death and dying

In most countries, elderly women ____ than elderly men

Live a few years longer

America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except:

Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt

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 US?

37

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory?

Age stratification

Which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment?

Being frail to the point of dependency on care

Who wrote the book On Death and Dying, outlining the five stages of grief?

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The "graying of the US" refers to ____

the increasing percentage of the population over 65

Which action reflects ageism?

Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65

In Erik Erikson's developmental stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle?

Overcoming despair to achieve integrity

Veterans are two to four times more likely to ____ as people who did not serve in the military

commit suicide

In the US, life expectancy rates in recent decades have:

Continued to gradually rise

What is the primary driver of modernization theory?

Industrialization

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

Today in the US the poverty rate of the elderly is:

increasing