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Percentage of Americans over 65 - Answer-14.9% Percentage of older adults who obtained a HS education - Answer-84% T/F: Women are more likely to be married when older. - Answer-False Major source of income for older adults - Answer-social security Most older adults are in which class? -...

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Percentage of Americans over 65 - Answer-14.9%

Percentage of older adults who obtained a HS education - Answer-84%

T/F: Women are more likely to be married when older. - Answer-False

Major source of income for older adults - Answer-social security

Most older adults are in which class? - Answer-middle class

Who are the poorest older adults? - Answer-Hispanic women living alone

Primary source of health insurance for older adults - Answer-Medicare

Percentage of older adults still working - Answer-18.9%

Percentage of older adults living alone - Answer-28%

Percentage of older adults in institutional settings? - Answer-3.2%

Percentage of older adults who have problems with 1 or more ADLs - Answer-18%

What is a free radical - Answer-highly charged ion containing an unpaired electron

What is believed to control free radicals? - Answer-anti-oxidant enzymes

What is believed to contribute to age-related decline in organs over time? - Answer-free
radicals

Biological theory that organisms are only capable of a specific number of cell divisions -
Answer-programmed aging

Biological theory which says that chromosomal changes and mutations occur with aging
- Answer-somatic mutation theory

Biological theory which says that the CNS is the beginning of aging - Answer-
neuroendocrine theory

Biological theory which says that dame over time results in death of cells-->tissues--
>organs-->organism - Answer-wear and tear theory

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