RST 230 Exam 2
Recently Homeless - ✔️✔️-not homeless more than a year
-many of them live in a shelter, cars, RV (temporary housing)
-consider their situation temporary
Chronically Homeless - ✔️✔️-no home for more than a year
-OR had at least 4 episodes of homelessness in the last 3 years plus have a disabling
condition (mental condition)
Reasons of homelessness - ✔️✔️medical bills, fired from jobs, divorce, kids kicked out,
saving are gone, gambling, addiction, mental illness, eviction, felony/criminal records,
loosing health facilities, no family supports, veterans
Distribution of Poverty in US - ✔️✔️southeast (b/c African Americans live there), along
the mississippi (b/c African Americans), new magnet states (b/c recent immigrants),
along US/Mexico border (b/c Mexican Americans), around four corners (b/c Native
Americans), appalachian mountains (b/c caucasian), Alaska (b/c Native Americans),
counties in North/South Dakota
Underclass - ✔️✔️- Poor on social assistance
- Long term chronically unemployed
- Homeless
Economic Capital - ✔️✔️economic resources, the money
Social Capital - ✔️✔️resource of networking, knowing people
Cultural Capital - ✔️✔️quality of education, skills, knowledge, travel
Census Definition - ✔️✔️The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds
that vary by family size and composition (age of family members) to determine who is in
poverty. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold, then that family and
every individual in it is considered in poverty.
relative property - ✔️✔️Rank-order all the people in the community based on their
income, then you draw a line at 10-20% and everybody below that line is considered to
be poor
A poor person is a person who cannot afford living up to community standards
, Marginally Homeless - ✔️✔️-do not live in the shelters or on the streets
-they rely on friends and family for accommodation
-they are near or at or slightly below the poverty line
-they do not use homeless programs
benefits of leisure in unemployed - ✔️✔️-Inclusion
-Keeps them busy
-Reduces severity of mental disease
-Helps substance abuse
characteristics of homelessness - ✔️✔️- Single men (largest group)
- Families with children (fastest growing)
- Single women
- Runaways
old-age dependency ratio - ✔️✔️Population aged 65 years and over divided by
population aged 20-64 multiplied by 100 *22-28*
sources of income in older adults - ✔️✔️1). Social security
2). earnings
3). pensions
4). asset income
functional age - ✔️✔️ability to carry out activities of daily living, ability to live
independently
chronological age - ✔️✔️actual age
Physical Changes (Age): Sensory System - ✔️✔️smell, hearing, vision, touch, taste
Physical Changes: Musculoskeletal System - ✔️✔️bones, muscles, ligaments,
cartilage, elasticity of connective tissues declines, bones lose calcium-- osteoporosis:
posture will change, women suffer most during menopause, decline in muscle mass and
strength
Physical Changes: Respiratory System - ✔️✔️loss of elasticity, hardening and
stiffening of support tissues and airways, decreased amount of air in and out of the
lungs, reserve capacity of lungs declines, lower ability to cope with air pollutants
Physical Changes: Cardiovascular System - ✔️✔️heart muscle becomes less elastic,
walls of heart thicken--high blood pressure, arteries become less elastic--
atherosclerosis
