Prejudice, discrimination, and hostility directed toward a certain age group
What is ageism?
100
The number of stages that occur in the death process
a. 1
b. 5
c. 4
What is B. 5?
100
The term that describes elderly in the hospital who die surrounded by strangers who put their priorities before patients
a. graying of America
b. institutional hospital care
c. institutional death
What is C. institutional death?
100
Describes what the elderly are treated like
a. animals
b. children
c. elderly
What is B. children?
200
The amount of factors to deciding when you are old
a. 2
b. 4
c. 3
What is B. 4?
200
Shows how culture influences the experience in aging and emphasizes that no age has any particular meaning
a. symbolic interactionist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. functionalist perspective
What is A. symbolic interactionist perspective?
200
Trying to make a bargain with fate
A. denial
B. depression
C. negotiation
What is C. negotiation?
200
Focuses on both the dying and their friends and family
a. hospices
b. nursing homes
c. hospitals
What is A. hospices?
200
The majority of elderly abusers
a. family members
b. friends
c. nursing home staff
What is A. family members?
300
Describe gender age
What is a value placed on men and women's ages?
300
The perspective that shows why organizations such as Gray Panthers and AARP are necessary
a. symbolic interactionist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. functionalist perspective
What is B. conflict perspective?
300
Describe denial during the death process
What is avoiding topics and discussions of death?
300
The reason why hospices emerged
What is people want to die with dignity?
300
Bad characteristics of nursing homes
What is being under-staffed and unreliable?
400
Signals societies use to inform that old age has begun
a. timeshares
b. gray factors
c. timetables
What is C. timetables?
400
The number of workers who support one elderly person
a. dependency ratio
b. independent ratio
c. various ratio
What is A. dependency ratio?
400
The stage when they realize they can't change anything
a. acceptance
b. depression
c. happiness
What is B. depression?
400
The contrast between hospitals and hospices
What is hospitals prolong life while hospices focus on making people comfortable during the death process?
400
Why 70% of elderly people are in poverty
What is because within 3 months of being in a nursing home, they go broke
500
The factors of deciding when you are old
What is biology and physical appearance, personal history, gender age, and timetables?
500
The 3 theories the functionalist perspective supports
What is disengagement theory, activity theory, and continuity theory?
500
The order of stages of the death process
What is denial, anger, negotiation, depression, and acceptance?
500
The three things hospices reduce
What is emotional burden, physical burden, and cost of death?
500
The percentage of nursing home staff who admitted to psychologically abusing patients and the percentage who physically abused patients
a. 30% and 10%
b. 10% and 40%
c. 40% and 10%
What is C. 40% psychologically and 10% physically?