ch. 10 health and aging

According to recent research, women experienced a decline in their ability to see needed specialists between 2001 and 2008, at which time ________ of females questioned the quality of her health care.

25 percent

Unlike the elderly of previous generations, baby boomers do not expect that turning ________ means their active lives are over. They are not willing to abandon work or leisure activities, but they may need more medical support to keep living vigorous lives. This desire of a large cohort wanting to continue with such a high activity level is driving innovation in the medical industry.

65

At the start of the twenty-first century, the older population was putting an end to the poverty trend with the poverty rate down to ________ in 2008. However, given the subsequent recession, which severely reduced the retirement savings of many while taxing public support systems, the national poverty rate among the elderly had risen to 14 percent by 2010 and ________.

9. 7 percent

________ represents the wealth of life experiences that shape the people we become. With medical advancements that prolong human life, old age has taken on a new meaning in societies with the means to provide high-quality medical care. However, many aspects of the aging experience also depend on social class, race, gender, and other social factors. You were correct. Multiple Choice QuestionLife expectancyAgeLife phase

age

Many stereotypes exist surrounding the realities of being an older adult. While individuals often encounter stereotypes associated with race and gender and are thus more likely to think critically about them, many people accept ________ without question.

age stereotypes

use the example of the social construction of women's health and how medical knowledge has changed significantly in the course of a few generations. For instance, in the early nineteenth century, pregnant women were discouraged from driving or dancing for fear of harming the unborn child, much as they are discouraged, with more valid reason, from smoking or drinking alcohol today.

conrad and barker

Care that people in ________ countries take for granted, like hospitals, healthcare workers, immunizations, antibiotics and other medications, and even sanitary water for drinking and washing, are unavailable to much of the population in ________ countries.

core; peripheral and semi-peripheral

This percentage of elderly around the globe is expected to increase and will have a huge impact on the ________, or the number of non-productive citizens (young, disabled, or elderly) to productive working citizens.

dependency ratio

Issues such as infectious disease, high infant mortality rates, scarce medical personnel, and inadequate water and sewer systems, which high-income countries rarely even think about, are central to the lives of most people in low-income nations. Due to such health concerns, low-income nations have ________ rates of infant mortality and ________ average life spans.

higher; lower

______ suggested that widows and widowers experience their post-marital lives differently. Many surviving women enjoyed a new sense of freedom, since they were living alone for the first time. On the other hand, for surviving men, there was a greater sense of having lost something, because they were now deprived of a constant source of care as well as the focus of their emotional life.

kate davidson

The risk of death due to disease or accident was high in any life stage, and life expectancy was low. As people began to live longer, death became associated with

old age

The status of global health offers insight into the various ways that ________ shape access to healthcare, and it shows which populations are most affected by health disparities.

politics and wealth

Which microanalytic perspective assumes that if people develop a sense of identity through their social interactions, their sense of self is dependent on those interactions, and they stress that the changes associated with old age, in and of themselves, have no inherent meaning?

symbolic interactionist theory

The work of Kübler-Ross broke new ground and opened the doors for sociologists, social workers, health practitioners, and therapists to study death and help those who were facing death. Kübler-Ross's work is generally considered a major contribution to ________ the systematic study of death and dying

thanatology

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2011), people with a disability had a higher rate of ________ than people without a disability.

unemployment