Deck 29: Public Health and the Aging Population

Question 1

Which ethnic group will have the greatest percentage increase among the older generation by the year 2060?

A) Caucasian
B) African American
C) Hispanic
D) Asian

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Clinical trials have shown that supplements of which vitamin can reduce the risk of falls independently of their value in osteoporosis prevention?

A) Calcium
B) Magnesium
C) Vitamin C
D) Vitamin D

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Being overweight reduces the risk of which of the following medical condition?

A) Hypertension
B) Diabetes
C) Osteoporosis
D) Heart Disease

Answer 3

C

Question 4

After the age of 75, most women are widowed and live alone, while most men are married and live with their wives.

Question 5

The population is growing older by a number of measures, such as median age and percentage over 65.

Question 6

From 1900 to 2017, life expectancy has increased by nearly twofold.

Question 7

As the population has aged, people at a given age range have generally become less vigorous.

Question 8

Most older people die from cancer or cardiovascular disease, similar to younger cohorts of the population.

Question 9

Generally speaking, one would expect compression of morbidity to lag compression of mortality.

Question 10

Evidence is beginning to emerge that compression of morbidity will never take place.

Question 11

Most older people are unaware they have osteoporosis until they suffer a broken bone.

Question 12

__________________ means that deaths are increasingly concentrated in a relatively short age range at about the biological limit of life span.

Question 13

The use of _________________ or more prescription drugs is considered a risk factor for falls.

Question 14

whats the condition with the appropriate description
-The most prevalent cause of eye disease Cataracts

Question 15

whats the condition with the appropriate description
-Gradual increase in pressure within the eye that causes damage to the optic nerve Glaucoma

Question 16

whats the condition with the appropriate description
-Involves the breakdown of the light-sensing cells in the central part of the retina Macular degeneration

Question 17

whats the condition with the appropriate description
-High blood sugar damages the tiny blood vessels in the retina Diabetic retinopathy

Question 18

whats the appropriate description of the study?
-Found that women who got the most exercise showed less cognitive decline over the years than less active women

Question 19

whats the appropriate description of the study?
-Demonstrated the women who had the lowest linguistic skills in their early 20s were most likely to develop Alzheimer's as they aged

Question 20

whats the appropriate description of the study?
-Tracked the health of a cohort of original participants and their offspring, found that the younger generation has less disability than their parents at the same ages

Question 21

whats the appropriate description of the study?
-The twin with the dementia had significantly less education than the healthy one

Question 22

Which of the following medical conditions could lead to increased sensitivity to drugs in older people?

A) Diabetes
B) Osteoporosis
C) Heart disease
D) Impaired renal function

Question 23

Which of the following is the most prevalent cause of eye disease?

A) Cataracts
B) Glaucoma
C) Macular degeneration
D) Diabetic retinopathy

Question 24

An experimental vaccine was developed for what disease by injecting beta-amyloid into mice, which stimulated antibodies to the protein and reduced the number of plaques?

A) Macular degeneration
B) Heart Disease
C) Alzheimer's disease
D) Parkinson's disease

Question 25

Racial differences in health grow smaller in the oldest populations, and African Americans who survive to join the oldest-old category have a slightly longer life expectancy than whites of the same age.

Question 26

Cardiovascular disease has become more prevalent as deaths from cardiovascular disease have declined.

Question 27

The Institute of Medicine predicts that the current workforce is sufficient to meet the needs of the growing number of the elderly.

Question 28

Since 1966, the population served under Medicare has quadrupled.

Question 29

From 1980 to 2014, the expenditure per Medicare enrollee rose about eightfold.

Question 30

In 2018, about one third of Medicare enrollees joined Medicare Advantage Plus.

Question 31

As resources dwindle, pressure grows on the elderly to die, with that suggestion having been made overtly in 1984 by the Governor of Colorado.

Question 32

Part of the push for assisted suicide and euthanasia derives from the fear of the elderly that they will not be cared for.

Question 33

The reduced prevalence of __________________ over the past several decades is no doubt responsible in part for the fact that the elderly are healthier than they used to be.

Question 34

__________________ such as the use of drugs to treat diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol have undoubtedly reduced morbidity and mortality in many older people.

Question 35

Whats the projected percentage of the older population in 2060 of the ethnic group?
-Non-Hispanic Whites

Question 36

Whats the projected percentage of the older population in 2060 of the ethnic group?
-Hispanics

Question 37

Whats the projected percentage of the older population in 2060 of the ethnic group?
-African-Americans

Question 38

Whats the projected percentage of the older population in 2060 of the ethnic group?
-Asians

Question 39

Whats the appropriate description of the term?
-Individuals born between 1946 and 1964

Question 40

Whats the appropriate description of the term?
-Deaths are increasingly concentrated in a relatively short age range at about the biological limit of life span

Question 41

Whats the appropriate description of the term?
-Rates of chronic disease and disability are increasingly concentrated in a relatively short age range at about the biological limit of life span

Question 42

Whats the appropriate description of the term?
-Depends significantly on lifestyle in youth and middle age