Sociology

Which action reflects ageism?

B. Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age sixty-five years old

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

Being frail to the point of dependency on care

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

Caregivers

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

Commit suicide

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory

Disengagement

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

This measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is

Sex ratio

In most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men.

live a few years longer

Thanatology

the study of death and dying

In the United States, life expectancy rates in recent decades have

Continued to gradually rise

An older women retires and completely changes in 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

Continuity

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. a. activity b. continuity c. disengagement d. gerotranscendence

Disengagement

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

Elisabeth Kubler- Ross

Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is

Increasing

What is the primary driver of modernization theory

Industrialization

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

Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt

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

Overcoming despair to achieve integrity

The "graying" of the United States refers to

The increasing percentage of the population over sixty five years old

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 United States

Thirty Seven