Gerontology Exam 1 Questions And Answers 100% Pass.
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Gerontology Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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True or False: Depression is more common in older adults? - AnswerFalse
True or false: lung vital capacity tends to decline as people age - AnswerTrue
People over ____ years old are considered older adults. - Answer65
What is age range for "y...
Gerontology Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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True or False: Depression is more common in older adults? - Answer✔False
True or false: lung vital capacity tends to decline as people age - Answer✔True
People over ____ years old are considered older adults. - Answer✔65
What is age range for "young old"? - Answer✔65-74
What is age range for middle old? - Answer✔75-84
What is age for old old? - Answer✔85 and older
True or false: People tend to become more religious as they age - Answer✔true
True or false: The majority of older adults say they are seldom irritated or angry - Answer✔true
In the United States, currently 1 in ___ people are older adults - Answer✔7
Which group is the fastest growing of the older population in much of the world? -
Answer✔oldest old
True or false: The majority of older adults stay in their homes and do not move into LTC
facilities - Answer✔True
True or false: almost half of women 75 and older live alone - Answer✔true
Highest poverty rates were found for older ____ ___ living alone. - Answer✔Hispanic women
True or false: older adults take longer to learn something new - Answer✔true
What are 5 most common health conditions for older adults? - Answer✔hypertension; arthritis;
heart disease; cancer; diabetes
What percent of older adults are working? - Answer✔19
Older adults make up ___ percent of the workforce - Answer✔5
True or false: older adults have fewer accidents per driver than those under age 65 -
Answer✔true
What impacts how people view and experience getting old? - Answer✔culture; gender;
resources; living situation; cohort effects; health; personality; education
What is the process by which the capacity for cell division and capacity for growth and function
is lost over time, ultimately leading to death called? - Answer✔senescence
True or false: There is nothing positive about senescence - Answer✔True (changes are
degenerative)
What are four ways age can be defined? - Answer✔chronological; biological; psychological;
social
What type of aging is length of time lived? - Answer✔chronological
True or false: chronological age is a good measure of functional age? - Answer✔False (people
go through changes at different times and rates)
What type of aging looks at individual's aging compared to the norm? - Answer✔Biological
True or false: there is a consensus on how to measure biological age - Answer✔false
What type of aging looks at person's mental and cognitive capabilities, including things like
learning, memory and perception? - Answer✔Psychological
What type of aging is what a society deems appropriate for a person to do? - Answer✔Social
What are two categories of theories of aging? - Answer✔random; programmed
Free-radical oxidation is a ____ theory of aging. - Answer✔random
What is it called when oxidative chain reactions form and damage membranes? - Answer✔free-
radical oxidation
Genetic theory of aging is a ____ theory. - Answer✔programmed
With genetic theory of aging, ___ is programmed in the genes and evidence includes long life
running in families and women living longer than men. - Answer✔longevity
What is the Hayflick limit? - Answer✔normal cells have ability to replicate but the number of
times they divide is limited
What impacts biological aging? - Answer✔genetics; access to medical care; lifestyle;
environment
What is the the theory where older adults withdraw from activity and prepare for death? -
Answer✔Disengagement theory
What theory is older adults do best if they remain highly active and engaged? - Answer✔activity
theory
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