Gerontology Unit 1 Exam Study Guide
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Area agencies on Aging (AAA) - ANSWER--Regional agencies that provide information referrals to
community-based services or offer them as part of their mission
AARP - ANSWER--A non-profit non-partisan group that advocates for the needs of older adult...
-Fosters the notion that older adults are not useful and not valued.
Agrarian Societies - ANSWER✔✔--Any communities whose economy is based on producing and
maintaining crops and farmland
Americans with Disabilities Act - ANSWER✔✔--A federal civil rights policy for individuals with disabilities
-The overarching goal of this is to integrate individuals with disabilities into communities and society
with the same access and rights as persons with the same access and right as persons without
disabilities
Baby Boom Generation - ANSWER✔✔--Americans born after WWII ended - between 1946 and 1964
Bill Thomas - ANSWER✔✔--
Biopsychosocial - ANSWER✔✔--Biological, psychological, and sociological factors that influence aging
processes, quality of life, and well-being
Caregiver - ANSWER✔✔--A person who provides care for an individual
Centenarian - ANSWER✔✔--A person at least 100 years old
Chronological Age - ANSWER✔✔--The length of time a person has been alive (e.g., he turned 70 years
old on his last birthday)
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