Deck 13: Growing Older in Families

Question 1

Which statement about the elderly population is INCORRECT?

A) Over the past 100 years, life expectancy in western nations has increased by approximately 50 years.
B) The life expectancy of women surpasses that of men in all countries.
C) Over the past 100 years, the proportion of the population aged 65 and over has increased by around 10%.
D) The country with the greatest life expectancy is Japan.

Answer 1

Over the past 100 years, life expectancy in western nations has increased by approximately 50 years.

Question 2

In what year did the U.S. Social Security program begin?

A) 1914
B) 1935
C) 1942
D) 1965

Answer 2

1935

Question 3

A person's ______ refers to how well the person feels as well as which activities he or she can engage in.

A) functional age
B) affective health
C) affective state
D) mental health age

Answer 3

functional age

Question 4

A person with a chronological age of 60 who, because of obesity and chronic diseases, has very limited mobility might have a functional age of approximately ______.

A) 20
B) 40
C) 60
D) 80

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a cohort effect?

A) An African American elder realizes that her life is more secure than were those of her ancestors.
B) A white elder goes into a nursing home to avoid burdening his children.
C) A Chinese American elder invites her son and daughter-in-law to move into her home.
D) A Native American elder becomes a spiritual leader of his extended family.

Question 6

The human body reaches peak performance during a person's ______.

A) teens
B) 20s
C) 30s
D) 40s

Question 7

Which statement about telomeres and longevity is INCORRECT?

A) The more quickly telomeres shorten, the less time a person has to live.
B) Telomere length is influenced by both physical health and stress.
C) Older men tend to have longer telomeres than older women.
D) Telomerase counteracts the effects of stress on telomere damage.

Question 8

A small but significant demographic trend is for older women to ______.

A) form group households with other seniors
B) date or marry men at least 10 years younger
C) die at around the same time as their husbands
D) live with their grown-up grandchildren

Question 9

The two best predictors of whether a woman maintains an active sex life in older age are ______.

A) good physical health and lack of weight gain
B) lack of weight gain and positive self-image
C) positive self-image and the availability of a partner
D) availability of a partner and good physical health

Question 10

Low testosterone levels in older men are associated with ______.

A) increased libido
B) depression
C) weight gain
D) heart disease

Question 11

Cognitive skills related to the functioning of the neuroanatomy, or the "hardware" of the brain, comprise ______.

A) neuroplasticity
B) crystalized intelligence
C) neuro-crystallization
D) fluid intelligence

Question 12

Which of the following factors is an example of secondary control over weight?

A) eliminating high-fat foods
B) exercising more
C) changing one's body image
D) adding whole grains to one's diet

Question 13

According to the ______, people who are experiencing health or family problems will increase their sense of well-being if they increase their sense of mastery.

A) lifespan theory model
B) lifespan theory of control
C) lifespan theory of development
D) lifespan theory of aging

Question 14

An older person's sense of generativity is related to his or her feeling of having ______.

A) done important things in life
B) accomplished all important goals
C) earned general respect and admiration
D) pleasure in everyday activities

Question 15

Moving from one long-term committed relationship to another throughout one's life is referred to as ______.

A) serial stability
B) serial exclusivity
C) binary monogamy
D) serial monogamy

Question 16

Women in which age-group have the highest degree of life satisfaction?

A) 20s
B) 30s
C) 40s
D) 50s

Question 17

The purpose of a living will is to ______.

A) tell survivors how to best live an ethical life
B) dispose of a person's property fairly
C) explain how a person wishes to be cared for
D) give directions about a funeral

Question 18

Approximately what percentage of elderly people live with their children?

A) 5%
B) 20%
C) 50%
D) 75%

Question 19

Approximately what percentage of people over age 50 are grandparents?

A) 30%
B) 50%
C) 70%
D) 90%

Question 20

Passive grandparents are those who ______.

A) do not exchange services, provide any discipline, or stay in regular contact with their grandchildren
B) do not exchange services or provide any discipline, but are in regular contact with their grandchildren
C) do not exchange services, but do provide discipline and are in regular contact with their grandchildren
D) exchange services, provide discipline, and are in regular contact with their grandchildren

Question 21

Primary control is related to changing yourself, such as changing your emotional state or motivational levels.

Question 22

Secondary control is changing one's environment to gain a sense of control over life.

Question 23

Integrity is a sense of inner peace at the end of life regarding the paths our lives have taken.

Question 24

Generativity is a sense of being fulfilled in middle age through having contributed to the next generation and leaving a positive legacy.

Question 25

About 35% of people who are clinically depressed eventually kill themselves.

Question 26

Like African American families, Latino families tend to be closer knit and have closer ties to their religious communities than European American families.

Question 27

Serial monogamy includes feelings of depression and loneliness that parents may experience when their children leave home.

Question 28

Empty nest syndrome is the idea that parents play key roles in their children's lives well after they reach adulthood, continuing to financially and emotionally support their children.

Question 29

Three quarters of seniors live independently and only about 4% live in nursing homes or other care facilities.

Question 30

Activities of daily living are things that people become less and less able to do with age, including feeding, dressing, toileting, and taking care of one's own household and medications.

Question 31

Typically, grandfathers have more frequent interactions with their grandchildren and do more caregiving for them.

Question 32

Grandparents today have more responsibilities for their grandchildren than ever before.

Question 33

Mentoring is the duty expected of grandparents of color involving transmitting cultural rituals, beliefs, and values to their grandchildren.

Question 34

African American grandparents tend to see their role as disciplinarian/teacher to their grandchildren, as do Latino and many Asian American grandparents.

Question 35

People of color tend to live longer lives than European Americans even though they suffer from more chronic conditions.

Question 36

Perma-parenting means playing key roles in children's lives well after they reach adulthood and remains quite normative.

Question 37

______ is the idea that development in old age can be both forward/positive and backward/negative.

Question 38

This is the idea that how people develop is influenced by the generation they belong to, or the time period in which they were born.

Question 39

______ is the maximum number of times a cell can divide.

Question 40

These are dense repetitive DNA strands, which protect chromosomes from damage and get shorter every time a cell divides.

Question 41

This is the time during which a woman stops menstruating; the process can take years to complete and may be accompanied by uncomfortable physical and mental symptoms.

Question 42

This includes discrimination, prejudice, and lack of access to information or services due to one's age.

Question 43

______ is a term used to describe impotence in a new marriage without any clear physical cause; commonly related to stress or trauma in a first marriage where a spouse died.

Question 44

______ is the set of facts, trivia, and information we've learned, or the "software" installed in our brain.

Question 45

This is a progressive brain disorder wherein the brain slowly dies through the strangulation of its cells.

Question 46

These are piles of dead protein material sloughed off brain cells, a symptom of Alzheimer's disease.

Question 47

What does it mean to say that the aging process is multidimensional? Explain and give an example.

Question 48

Explain how emotional and psychological effects can impair sexuality in older people. Give at least one example.

Question 49

In general, would you say that a healthy person's cognitive and psychological functioning improves or declines with old age?

Question 50

What are some of the different ways that caregiving stress is manifested? What can be done to relieve this type of stress?