Aging Theories and Models
This term within the successful aging model refers to mental abilities like learning and decision-making.
What is cognitive function?
Since 1991, the percentage of people 65 and over who have reported as being "fair or poor" has gone which direction?
What is down?
This term describes conditions that last over a year and require medical attention.
What is chronic illnesses?
This is the percentage of the federal budget spent on Medicare.
What is 15%?
Which stages of cognitive decline are considered "pre-dementia"?
What is stages 1-3?
This theory claims that the social status of elders decreases as a society modernizes.
What is the theory of modernization and aging?
This age range describes themselves as "Fair or Poor" as opposed to "good" or "excellent".
What is people aged 65 and older?
This decades-old practice, provides medical care for patients without reliable transportation methods.
What is telemedicine?
This politician was the original envisioner of the concepts behind Medicare/Medicaid.
Who/What is President Truman/Harry Truman?
This term describes having trouble concentrating, learning, remembering, or making decisions that affect one's life.
What is cognitive impairment?
This model describes the role that social conditions have on health and illness.
What is the social causes of disease model?
This age range had the lowest percentage of "fair or poor" health ratings from 1991-2017.
What is under 6 years?
This term describes when multiple chronic conditions occur at the same time.
What is comorbidity?
President Johnson signed these health insurance programs into law in 1965.
What is Medicaid and Medicare?
This type of anxiety can confuse normal aging processes with pathological ones.
What is dementia worry?
This aging theory is criticized for its normalization of withdrawing from social life.
What is the disengagement theory of aging?
In the U.S., this male age group has the highest rates of death by suicide per 100,000 people.
What is the oldest-old?
This phenomenon describes the tendency for women to live longer than men, but in poorer health.
What is the gender paradox in health and mortality?
Implemented by the U.S. Medicare program, this program "aimed" to improve patient care, population health, and reduce healthcare costs.
What is the Triple Aim program?
When evaluating the level of dementia, health professionals may use this.
What is the Global Deterioration Scale?
This component of the successful aging model relates to the absence/presence of a disease and level of risk for one.
What is Low Probability of Disease?
In 2016, this age group had 26.2 deaths per 100,000 U.S. men
What is 25-44?
This phenomenon tends to inflate reported health status for older-aged people.
What is mortality bias?
How much money did the U.S. government spend on Medicare in 2023?
What is $848.2 billion?
This disease disproportionately affects African American and Latinx/Hispanic populations as compared to their white counterparts.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?