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