Deck 15: B: Aging and the Elderly

Question 1

What are the basic ideas behind disengagement theory and activity theory?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How is the increasing share of our population over the age of sixty-five likely to change our way of life?

Answer 2

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Question 3

How are older Canadians changing today's society?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What is the debate about whether or not elderly people should be considered a minority?

Question 5

How is death handled in your family? Are life and death separate? Or is death a familiar part of life?

Question 6

What is bereavement? Note the stages most people experience when facing their own death.

Question 7

What do sociologists mean by the "greying of the Canada"?

Question 8

What does industrialization do for life expectancy? What does it do to the relative social standing of the oldest people in a society?

Question 9

What is caregiving? Who provides most caregiving to elderly people in Canada?

Question 10

What share of the Canadian population is now over the age of sixty-five? What is the trend over time?

Question 11

What is the poverty rate among elderly people in Canada? How has it changed in recent decades?

Question 12

How might nursing home and retirement homes more successfully accommodate gay residents?

Question 13

Why is social isolation a greater problem for aging women than aging men?

Question 14

What is age stratification?

Question 15

How does Japan differ from Canada in its cultural attitude toward old people?

Question 16

What are the basic ideas behind a social-conflict theory of aging?

Question 17

How do modern societies separate death from life?