Midlife test 4 chapters 9,12, 13
need complementarity
A couple in their 30s is thinking of getting married. One partner is very outgoing and sociable, and the other is introverted and shy. According to the ______ _________ hypothesis on long-term relationships, they should be very happy together.
Disillusionment
A couple who had initially seemed destined to remain together for years, if not decades, surprised their families when they announced their impending divorce. Neither of them could cite a particular problem; it's just they felt they grew apart. This pattern of long-term relationship is known as:
Skilled nursing home
A hospital social worker decides that one of her patients, an 82-year-old man who is recovering from a stroke, needs to be in a facility that provides him with rehab, round-the-clock nursing care, and help with planning his return to his own home. These kind of services are likely to be found in which type of long-term care facility?
Rewards > Costs
A marriage therapist working from the social exchange theory of interpersonal relationships would attempt to assess whether the partners in a distressed couple feel that:
Showed about the same relationship satisfaction decline
A meta-analysis of studies on satisfaction among couples before and after birth of the first child showed that, compared to non-parents, the parents:
Disagreement and values
A middle-aged man was disappointed that his family reunion was spoiled when the older relatives clashed with the younger relatives about the most recent presidential election. No matter what he did, it was impossible for him to get each side to see the other's point. According to the Intergenerational Solidarity Model, the generations were separated by:
Social Isolation
A new administrator in a nursing home in a large city is concerned because the staff are not providing what she feels is adequate training in bladder continence. She feels this should be a priority because she knows that incontinence is associated with which problem in nursing home residents?
exchange more help with each other // they are more likely to get support from each other since they are not from their parents
A study in the Netherlands of parents and adult children testing the Intergenerational Solidarity Model showed that when parents had poor relationships with their children, the siblings:
Believe that the world is a dangerous and threatening place
A study of Canadian parents showed that the greatest difficulty in adapting to the empty nest was experienced by parents who:
Taking care of PRACTICAL terms / practical or emotional
A woman grieving after the sudden and unexpected death of her husband is engaged in the "restoration" function of bereavement. This means that she:
$74,800
A woman would like to have her mother cared for in one of the best nursing homes in her town, but is unable to afford the cost which, for a private pay facility would be about _______ per year.
Structural ambivalence
A young woman feels that her parents treated her too much like an adult when she was growing up, giving her more responsibility than even she felt she could handle. This situation reflects a relationship characterized by:
contingency theory
According to the __________ __________, parents tend to give more support to their adult children who need the most help
Attachment
According to the ____________view of bereavement the bereaved can continue to benefit from maintaining emotional bonds to the deceased individual.
Terror management
According to the perspective known as _______ _________ Theory, activating a person's thoughts about death may trigger a set of positive changes, including closer relationships, greater creativity, and more connection to others.
Terror management
According to the perspective known as ________ _________ Theory, activating a person's thoughts about death may trigger a set of positive changes, including closer relationships, greater creativity, and more connection to others.
focus more on what are advantages - feels more like a home
An advantage of the Green House model of institutional care for older adults is that it:
They would rather spend time with their spouse and other family members rather than meet other people (p.190)
Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, members of a couple in a long-term relationship should show which pattern of social interaction in relation to their friends and social network?
Divorce proneness
Because many adults enter into remarriages more likely to leave because they are open to the relationship's ending, they are said to be high on the factor known as:
Good health
Being able to die in a way that protects the individual's sense of autonomy and control over end-of-life decisions is consistent with the idea of:
In equity theory, partners are seen as having the highest marital satisfaction if they:
Believe they are contributing to the relationship.
that both activity and cognitive demands represent the press side of the model, environmental demands placed on an individual will reflect the press dimension)
COMPETENCE-PRESS MODEL
Relationship begins to develop problems over time, made worse by poor conflict resolution
Couples in long-term relationships characterized by emergent distress show which pattern of conflict over time?
Cohabitation effect
Couples who cohabitate before getting engaged will have a higher divorce rate should they marry. The most likely contributing factor is that:
saving face
Couples who divorce seem to adapt best if, in the process, they protect each other's sense of identity, in what's referred to as:
The phenomenon known as doing _______ occurs after the transition to parenthood, when men and women adopt more stereotyped roles in the household.
Gender
Intermediate care
Health-related, but not intense nursing services are provided in a(n) _________ _____ facility.
Services such as meals on wheels, friendly visiting, assistance with household tasks, and rehabilitation, outside of an institutional setting // ON EXAM - WHICH ONE IS Question
Home health services typically include what types of support for older adults?
book of the dead
In Ancient Egypt, the ________ __ ________was considered to be the guidebook to ensure that an individual would be guided through the underworld and into the afterlife.
This is the idea that siblings exchange more help with one another when their parents didn't provide a large amount of support to their children growing up. The parents maybe weren't around that often, they may not have had great relationships with their kids, so the siblings in this case turn towards each other for their needs.
In a test of the intergenerational solidarity model, researchers found that siblings were likely to exchange more help with each other when their parents:
Infection Control Accident Environment Food Sanitation Quality Of Care Unnecessary Drugs
List the top five deficiencies noted in the 1997 survey of U.S. nursing homes. Why do you think these problems exist?
Create undue caregiving burden in grandparents.
Mental health workers who serve the older adult population are concerned about the skip generation family because they believe it has the potential to:
invisible
Moving dying patients from the home to hospitals in mid-20th Century Western culture has led to the ethos of the _________death.
Financial concerns
Older adults in the Living Apart Together relationship status do so primarily because of which consideration?
Got along well with each other during their EARLY years together
Research on satisfaction in close, long-term relationships shows that the couples who are most likely to get along well in their later years were those who:
Had poor relationships with all their children
Siblings in later life who exchange more help, according to research on a Netherlands sample, are likely to have had parents who:
Married couples with children
Since 1970, of the following, there has been the greatest decrease in U.S. households that fall into the category of:
engage in less physical activity
Soon after becoming widows, research shows that women exhibit which of the following behaviors that relate to their health?
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance The critical point failed to make is that to reach acceptance of a fatal illness, the dying person must be allowed to talk openly about their illness /// pick out which one is not one of the 5 points and also failed to make question
Summarize the five stages of dying in the theory of Kübler-Ross. Describe four criticisms of the theory.
Renewed feeling of loss near the date of the spouse's death
The "anniversary reaction," as applied to widowhood, refers to the:
MDD
The DSM-5 considers extreme grief past a 2-week period following the loss of a close relative or friend to fit the criteria for which disorder?
healthy lifespan
The _________ _________ is the length of time an individual can live without significant disease and disability.
widowhood
The _________ effect refers to the fact that widows are more likely to die after losing their spouse.
behavioral
The ___________ approach to marital satisfaction predicts greater happiness when couples engage in positive behaviors such as expressing affection.
obligation
The greatest degree of filial _______ is likely to be experienced by Asian American families.
Live without significant disease and disability
The healthy lifespan refers to the length of time that an individual can:
The denial of death
The idea that Western culture is unwilling to accept the reality of mortality led Ernest Becker to write the critique of this attitude, called:
Parents care more about children than children about parents
The intergenerational stake hypothesis about families with adult children proposes that:
Intermediate care
The least amount of nursing services is provided in what type of in-patient facility for older adults?
nurses aids / nurses
The majority of employees of nursing homes fall into which category?
Majority of nursing homes are for-profit organizations
The majority of nursing homes in the U.S. fall into which category of ownership?
Lack of infection control
The number one deficiency in U.S. nursing homes in 2014, involving 43% of all institutions, was:
Behave according to traditional role
The phenomenon in families known as "doing gender" describes what happens when parents:
Associational
The relatives in a young woman's family see each other only for major holidays and family events on average about two or three times a year, even though they live within 30 minutes from each other. Based on this information, you would rate this family as on the negative end of which dimension of the Intergenerational Solidarity Model?
Be important to mental health
The role of grandparenting to aging individuals is shown by researchers to:
Have known each other longer than anyone else in their lives
The sibling relationship in later adulthood is unique because siblings typically:
Developmental scheme
The situation in families when parents and their adult children no longer want to be with each other and, in fact, no longer value the relationship is known as a(n):
To reach acceptance with a fatal illness to person must be willing to talk openly with family members
Those who study death and dying believe that the main outcome of the work of Kübler-Ross was her emphasis on:
Home health services, geriatric parcial hospital, and adult day care, community housing alternatives
What are the four major categories of community-based services and facilities?
22%
What is the approximate percentage of grandparents raising grandchildren who are 60 years and older?
Health-related services for people who do NOT need hospitalization or skilled nursing care. (PT for hip/knee surgery) // focus on rehabilitation
What type of care is provided in an intermediate care facility?
Filial maturity
When children reach the age at which they enter adulthood, they and their parents experience a phenomenon
Both are considered aspects of competency // both are considered to reflect PRESS model
Where do the amount of activity and cognitive demands placed on the individual fit within the competence-press model?
think more of like a cognitive impairment / ex: dementia and alzheimers
Which psychological disorders are most prevalent among residents of nursing homes?
Home Health Services
Which type of care for older adults provides such services as Meals on Wheels, friendly visiting, assistance with household tasks, and rehabilitation, outside of an institutional setting?
If PRESS outweighs COMPETENCE // PRESS
Within the competence-press model of adaptation to the institutional environment, which dimension captures the extent to which the environment places demands on the individual resident?
Worry less about money/have less depressive symptoms when they remarry She said to focus on if they had prior wellbeing prior to the death of their spouse / started out better
Women who adapt more favorably to widowhood tend to be those women who:
