Deck 21: Services for Older Adults

Question 1

Find three articles in social work gerontology journals related to caregiver stress. Identify the common findings and the unique findings about caregiver stress in each article. Then identify three ways that caregiver stress might impact the social welfare system.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Is mandatory retirement discriminatory? Provide your arguments for and against removing mandatory retirement from the university/college system.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Locate the nearest senior's centre in your neighbourhood. What programs are offered specifically for widows and for widowers?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

What stresses might elderly persons experience being admitted to a long-term care facility? What stresses do family members with relatives in long-term care facilities experience?

Question 5

What is ageism? What policies might be considered an example of ageism? Find three advertisements that are ageist in the message they portray.

Question 6

How might the professional conceptualization of long term care differ from the way long term care is conceptualized by a care recipient?

Question 7

Identify three symptoms that might be experienced by someone who has recently been widowed?

Question 8

Identify three risk factors related to institutionalization.

Question 9

Identify three facts about caregivers.

Question 10

Identify four facts related to the gender of the caregiver.

Question 11

Family members with relatives in long-term care facilities

A) Do not visit regularly
B) Seldom are involved in care provision or care decisions
C) Carefully negotiate their relationships with staff
D) None of the above

Question 12

The most intense period of grief experienced by people who are widowed usually persists from:

A) The death to three months
B) The death to six months
C) One to six months
D) Six months to one year

Question 13

Ethnic minorities moving into long-term care facilities may experience stress adjusting because of:

A) Loss of family
B) Loss of community
C) Loss of culture including the ability to communicate in their own language
D) All of the above

Question 14

Widows vary in their ability to access social support based upon

A) Lack of transportation
B) Poor health
C) Language or literacy barriers
D) All of the above

Question 15

After the death of a spouse

A) Relationships with family members remain stable
B) Relationships with friends improve
C) Relationships with both family and friends decline
D) Relationships with both family and friends improve

Question 16

Western society provides widows with

A) Economic support
B) Emotional support
C) Social support
D) All of the above
E) A and C above

Question 17

Research on long-term facilities shows

A) Relatives cease to visit after the first year
B) Family members continue to visit regularly
C) Family members avoid coalitions with staff
D) Family members cease to provide any care
E) None of the above

Question 18

Elderly married couples

A) Felt positively about moving into long term care facilities
B) Often were overwhelmed by the care giving they had to perform and looked forward to assistance
C) Felt moving would lessen the burden of care they were causing their spouse
D) All of the above
E) A and C above

Question 19

Older adults

A) Are a heterogeneous group
B) All experience stress when faced with care giving
C) All experience stress when faced with retirement
D) B and C above
E) None of the above

Question 20

In coping with widowhood

A) Maintaining frequent contact with significant others is associated with lower incidence of depression
B) Demonstration of support before widowhood is important
C) Church involvement and religious faith helps
D) Pets and humour helps
E) All of the above

Question 21

Primary caregivers who have spent years attending to relatives, and who find themselves near the "breaking point" consistently experience intense relief when the person they are caring for is moved to a long-term care facility.

Question 22

Social security benefits and supplementary grants are available to widows aged 60 and older, which assists many to pay for basic necessities of life.

Question 23

Social support is considered to be the "greatest moderator" of the effects of care giving stress.

Question 24

One of the mental health issues caregivers have been found to experience in high levels is psychiatric symptoms such as insomnia, headaches, and excessive irritability.

Question 25

Losing a spouse is one of the most traumatic experiences of aging.

Question 26

The most severe problem experienced by widows and widowers is loneliness.

Question 27

Men are more likely than women to think about widowhood as a possible event in their lives.

Question 28

The emotional strain of care giving ends with placement.

Question 29

Significantly more husbands providing care for their spouses receive help with household chores from their spouses than do their female counterparts providing care for their husbands.

Question 30

Social workers are encouraged to support client self-determination as much as possible.