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HCAD 222 TEST 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024/2025 "Normal Aging" -vision, hearing, mobolity - ANSWERSVision: -Begin mid-life, stabilizes at 70-80 -Then further changes--> 95% >70 yrs--> cataracts or other vision problems -To compensate: Increase illumination, Reduce glare, Use large, ...

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HCAD 222 TEST 1 QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS 2024/2025

"Normal Aging" -vision, hearing, mobolity - ANSWERSVision:

-Begin mid-life, stabilizes at 70-80

-Then further changes--> 95% >70 yrs--> cataracts or other vision problems

-To compensate: Increase illumination, Reduce glare, Use large, clear visual images, Increase contrast.

Hearing:

-Begin midlife, mild to 60-70

-Reduced ability to hear low intensity and high frequency sounds. Ex. "Thats the wrong way" vs. "thats
the long way"

-To improve communication: Raising voice does not help, Lower pitch and speak slowly, Rephrase the
sentence, Avoid background noise, Face-to-face facilitates lip reading

Mobility:

-Combined functions of cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems.

-Common threats: arthritis, strokes, pulmonary disease

-Interventions to come with impairments: Identify alternative or adaptive ways of accomplishing
activities of daily living (ADL's)



Cohort - ANSWERSRefers to people who were born at the same time and thus share similar life
experiences



Senior population changes/trends - ANSWERS-Our generation will live longer but will have less babies

-Birth control

-Better healthcare system

-New advances in technology



Population Shift - ANSWERS-Lower fertility rate

-Increased life expectancy

, -Graying of the baby boomers



Young-old, Old-old, Oldest-old - ANSWERSYoung old: 65-74

Old-old:75-84

Oldest-old: 85+



Influences on the life course - ANSWERSSocial institutions and policies:

-Order and predictability or dependency on the system

-Time and the life course

-"Successful aging"



Rituals/Rites of passage - ANSWERSCeremonies that mark important transitional periods in a persons
life. Usually involve ritual activities and teachings designed to strip individuals of their original roles and
prepare them for new ones.

Ex. Confirmation, Graduating, Drivers License, Job, Marriage, Children/Grandchildren



Modernization Theory - ANSWERSThe view that nations can be placed on a continuum from least
developed to most developed, according to such indicators as the level of industrialization or the degree
of urbanization, with those exhibiting certain qualities of social structure termed modern; basic premise
is that the aged were revered in the past and that modernization has caused the status of the aged to
decline.



Continuity Theory - ANSWERSA more formal elaboration of activity theory; uses a life course perspective
to define normal aging and to distinguish it from pathological aging. Carrying on leisure activities and
religious



Free radical theory - ANSWERSView that free radicals contribute to the aging process by forming age
pigment and by producing cross-links



Disengagement theory - ANSWERSThe first formal theory of aging; the view that normal aging involves a
natural and inevitable mutual withdrawal or disengagement, resulting in decreasing interaction between
an aging person and others.

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