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Supercentenarians are people who are ____ and older.

110

What is the approximate median age of the United States?

37

Your grandmother is still very active and loves to get her friends together for bridge on Friday. They always talk about all those old-old people down at the senior center who like to play bingo. About how old are the old-old senior citizens to whom they are referring?

85

Chronic fatigue syndrome is an example of .

A contested illness

Sheryl was diagnosed with bipolarity when she was a teenager. She's hesitant to tell her friends, and tries her best to hide her diagnosis from her coaches, teachers, and employers, since she's seen other people with the illness be discriminated against on account of it. Bipolarity is an example of a(n):

A. Stigmatized illness- withdrawn illness B. Contested illness- untreatable illness

Accusing people of DWE (driving while elderly) is considered a type of:

Ageism

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

Being frail to the point of dependency on care

Which of the following statements is not true?

Blacks have lower cancer rates than whites

If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by______.

Caregivers

What is one of the largest contributors to health problems in low-income countries?

Clean water access

Thanatology is the study of_____.

Death and dying

Which of the following was not among the United Nations eight Millennium Development Goals set in 2000?

Decrease obesity

The removal of homosexuality from the DSM is an example of .

Demedicalization

What causes some caretakers to abuse their elderly charges?

Depression

Obesity is rising at the fastest rate in which of the following countries?

High income

Medical sociology is the systematic study of:

How humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and health care for both the sick and the healthy

Many deaths in high-income nations are linked to

Obesity

The measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is_____.

Sex ratio

Sociologists have adopted the phrase, "the graying of the United States." What does this phrase mean?

The greatest part of the population is reaching the age 65 and entering old age

Taylor works as a legal assistant. His insurance doesn't cover treatment for depression, and he spends 15% of his income each month to receive care. This is an example of

Under insurance

Dana's lives in a country which guarantees healthcare for all of its citizens. Dana lives in a country which uses:

Universal healthcare

Which three states allow some form of physician-assisted suicide?

Washington State, Oregon, and Montana

Which of the following is NOT true about old age?

Elderly people lose all appetite and drive for sex

What does the individual mandate provision of the 2010 U.S. healthcare reform do?

Requires everyone to have insurance or pay a penalty

Which action reflects ageism?

Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65 years old

The high unemployment rate among the disabled may be a result of

Stigmatization

A symbolic interactionist may choose to study senior centers, and other groups of elderly people. Which theory might they find most useful for their study?

Subculture of aging theory

The world population is growing and aging. In an effort to collectively deal with some of the challenges facing the elderly, several countries gathered at a summit. Which plan was the result of this summit?

The Madrid Plan

Which program is an example of socialized medicine?

The United States' Veterans Health Administration

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

Commit suicide

According to Erik Erikson's theory on aging, what is the final hurdle that most people who reach old age must overcome?

Despair

How do elderly widows and widowers react to death of their significant other?

Differently; elderly widows often do not remarry while elderly widowers do

Which sociological perspective argues that sick people fill a societal role, and are stigmatized by society if they spend longer in that role than is appropriate?

Functionalism

When elderly people are considered elders and leaders of a group of people, they are functioning under a(n):

Gerontocracy

Which of the following is NOT a result of the commodification of health care?

HIV spreading across the United States at a rapid rate in the 1980s

Which is a social issue that many elderly females discover they are victims of?

Having their medical ailments trivialized by doctors

Core nations are also known as

High-income nations

No one in the United States can watch the news without hearing about the struggle over Social Security. Which approach has been used in the past to avoid the program's collapse?

Increase the age at which someone can start collecting Social Security

Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is_____.

Increasing

Some conflict theorists ascribe to the idea that as time and technology move forward, elderly people are left behind and they lose social standing and power. Which specific theory does this describe?

Modernization theory

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

Overcoming despair to achieve integrity

Who determines which illnesses are stigmatized?

Society

Which of the following would a social epidemiologist be likely to study:

The higher cancer rates surrounding a large manufacturing plant in New Mexico

The "graying of the United States" refers to ______.

The increasing percentage of the population over 65 years old

Which of the following best defines the concept of "The Sick Role"?

The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them

Which of the following is not part of the rights and responsibilities of a sick person under the functionalist perspective?

The sick person can take as long as she wants to get better

When your mother-in-law fell and broke her hip at age 72, you were concerned because she is still ________________.

Young-old

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

Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's book On Death and Dying added much content knowledge to which field?

Thanatology

Sidewalk ramps and Braille signs are examples of

Accommodations required by the Americans with Disabilities Act; forms of accessibility for people with disabilities

An older woman retires and completely changes her life. She is no longer raising children or working. However, she joins the YWCA to swim every day. She serves on the Friends of the Library board. She is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bunco on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the _____theory.

Activity

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory?

Age stratification

What are the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in the United States?

Anxiety disorders

What is the basic idea behind disengagement theory?

As people age, they generally withdraw from all forms of society

The class, race, and gender inequalities in our healthcare system support the perspective.

Conflict

Shane believes that the commodification of health has created a large number of problems within the United States. From which sociological perspective does this come from?

Conflict theory

An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the_____theory.

Disengagement

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What is the primary driver of modernization theory?

Industrialization

What is a dependency ratio?

It is the comparison of working people to non-working people

In most countries, elderly women _________ than elderly men.

Live a few years longer

Which of the following is an example of legitimation?

Marley's doctor diagnosing him with bronchitis

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

The United States healthcare system consists of:

Public and private insurance coverage

While visiting your dad at his nursing home, you see an elderly lady sitting at the table with a full tray of food in front of her. She is in a wheel chair and seems depressed. You conclude that she is experiencing:

Secondary aging

Drake lives in Great Britain, where the British government owns and operates the country's health care system. This is an example of ____:

Socialized medicine

What sociologist pioneered the concept of "The Sick Role"?

Talcott Parsons

What group created the Millennium Development Goals?

The World Health Organization

When a number of young, gay men in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles began dying of a mysterious disease in the early 1980's, the public began referring to the disease as "the gay cancer," stigmatizing the disease for doctors and patients. This is an example of:

The cultural meaning of illness

The Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is an example of

The social construction of health

What is social epidemiology?

The study of causes and distribution of diseases

For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is_____.

The typical sequence of events in their lives

The process by which aspects of life that were considered bad or deviant are redefined as sickness and needing medical attention to remedy is called:

Medicalization

Great Britain's healthcare system is an example of

Socialized medicine

Epidemiology is:

The study of incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases

In the United States, life expectancy rates in recent decades have_____.

Continued to gradually rise

Which public healthcare system offers insurance primarily to people over sixty-five years old?

Medicare

In recent years, a great compulsion to engage in frequent and risky sexual behaviors was deemed sexual addiction. This is an example of:

Medicalization of deviance

According to the World Health Organization, what was the most frequent cause of death for children under five in low- income countries?

Pneumonia and diarrheal diseases

Until 1973 homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder American Psychological Association. Which sociological perspective would be most concerned with why this was considered an illness, and what effect that diagnosis had on society?

Symbolic interactionist