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