Ageism
Caregiving and Aging Services
Physical and Psychological Issues in Aging
Aging Policy
Aging in popular culture
100
These are emotional impressions not based on objective information that result in the categorization of people
What are stereotypes?
100
This group provides 75% of caregiving support to older adults in the U.S.
Who are family members?
100
This is the major type of accident experienced by older adults and causes 2/3 of accidental deaths among older adults.
What is falling?
100
This law is based on a 2009 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that requires services to be provided to someone with disabilities at the appropriate integrated level, preferable in the community instead of an institution.
What is the Olmstead Act?
100
This "Golden Girl" is the oldest person ever to host Saturday Night Live, at age 88 in 2010.
Who is Betty White?
200
Impressions of all older adults as being vulnerable or in need of protection
What are compass stereotypes?
200
Care providers of family members with this condition have greater emotional, financial, and physical distress when compared to other care providers?
What is dementia and/or Alzheimers disease?
200
This condition is a natural part of aging, affecting almost 50% of older adults, and can significantly influence communication ability, social activities, and mental health.
What is presbycusis or hearing loss?
200
This non-partisan organization advocating for older adults is the largest lobbying group in America, with 37 million members over the age of 50.
What is the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)?
200
This was one of the first children's programs to directly address the death of one of its main characters, the beloved Mr. Hooper, in 1982.
What is Sesame Street?
300
This Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1967, makes mandatory retirement ages and other age-based inequalities illegal.
What is the Age Discrimination and Employment Act?
300
The extent to which caregivers perceive that caregiving has had an adverse effect on the emotional, social, financial, physical, and spiritual functioning.
What is caregiver burden?
300
The term that refers to clinical conditions that occur in aging that cannot be classified as or attributed to discrete diseases.
What are geriatric syndromes?
300
Currently, the youngest person of this group of judges that widely influences policy in the United States is Elena Kagan, appointed to the post when she was 53 years old.
What is the United States Supreme Court?
300
This actor, famous for his roles in "Dirty Harry", "Unforgiven", and talking to a chair at the 2012 Republican Convention, was the oldest person ever to win an Oscar for directing for the 2004 film "Million Dollar Baby."
Who is Clint Eastwood?
400
A term used to describe aging free from disease and disability, with good cognitive and physical functioning, and having social connections
What is successful aging?
400
This online resource provides information on the inspection results of nursing homes in the state of Minnesota, including how each nursing home compared to others in the state in regard to 7 quality indicators.
What is the Nursing Home Report Card?
400
An often embarrassing and isolating problem, this geriatric syndrome is not a normal part of aging, but there are many options available to help alleviate symptoms.
What is urinary incontinence?
400
This organization, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers under the National Institute for Health, is the primary Federal agency devoted to researching and funding Alzheimer's prevention and treatment, as well as many other diseases, and received almost $1.2 billion dollars for its budget in 2015.
What is the National Institute on Aging (NIA)?
400
Cloris Leachman, famous for starring in such movies as "Young Frankenstein", showed she could do the tango and can-can at age 82 when she competed in this popular reality television show.
What is Dancing with the Stars?
500
The individual credited with originally coining the term "ageism" in 1969.
Who is Robert Butler?
500
The term used to describe a person living the residence of their choice, for as long as they are able, as they age.
What is aging in place?
500
A lest of potentially inappropriate medications for older adults developed to assist health care professionals in managing complex medication regimens and potential medication interaction that occur often in older adults.
What are the Beers Criteria?
500
In 2010, 40 million people age 65 and over used this government-funded healthcare system.
What is Medicare?
500
In 1991, at age 95, this radio, television, and movie personality won a Grammy award for best spoken voice for his book, Gracy: A Love Story, about his long romance with his wife Grace Allen.
Who is George Burns?
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