Deck 25: Seciton 4: Late Adulthood: Psychosocial

Question 1

The elderly are more likely than younger generations to attend religious services, though they report less belief in God or an afterlife.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

According to disengagement theory, aging leads to decreasing options for relationships and activities.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Adult children who care for their elderly parents out of a sense of obligation demonstrate filial responsibility.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Stratification theories maintain that social forces promote individual choice.

Question 5

Though once the norm in America, bean pole families are now rare.

Question 6

Many older people resist moving from unsuitable homes into a smaller, safer place out of a desire to hold on to their sense of self.

Question 7

Volunteer work is a form of exploitation of the elderly.

Question 8

SES impacts one's health and options throughout the life span, impacting health and options as one ages.

Question 9

Older adults who want to remain in their homes as they age are expressing a desire to age in place.

Question 10

Older couples that are happy together are likely to say they no longer disagree about things.

Question 11

The tendency for older adults to perceive, prefer, and remember negative images and experiences more than positive ones is the positivity effect.

Question 12

An individual's worldview tends to turn more cynical and negative with age.

Question 13

The impulse toward compulsive hoarding tends to increase with age.

Question 14

Erik Erikson developed one of the most comprehensive self theories.

Question 15

Difficult grandchildren are more likely to live with grandparents.

Question 16

The elderly are more political than any other age group on all measures of and in all categories related to political interest.

Question 17

Only 25 percent of adults over the age of 65 are grandparents.

Question 18

The life expectancy for 65-year-old European Americans is the same as that for 65-year old African Americans.

Question 19

Retirement is most often a traumatic event in the life of an older person.

Question 20

An older person's use of selective optimization with compensation is a sign that he or she is near death.

Question 21

The ability to perform IADLs may be even more critical to self-sufficiency than ADL ability.

Question 22

ADLs include such things as eating, bathing, dressing, and moving from a bed to a chair.

Question 23

A caregiver who uses restraints and overmedication when taking care of an elderly person is committing elder abuse.

Question 24

Outright abuse is now rare in U.S. nursing homes, at least in part because of mandatory inspections.

Question 25

The medical establishment is largely responsible for preventing frailty among the old.

Question 26

Assisted living is the term used to describe when an elder moves into a younger relative's home.

Question 27

The caregiver of a frail elderly person is usually a daughter even if the frail person is still living with a spouse.

Question 28

The quality of older peoples' friendships tends to improve even as they experience losses.

Question 29

Today in the U.S., public agencies rarely provide support or assistance to caregivers unless an emergency situation arises.

Question 30

Compared to people with children, childless adults are more likely to be lonely and to lack social support.