What’s happening to my body? (Middle Adult-Physical)
So what if, I bought another snowmobile? (Middle Adult-Social)
…will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64? (Late Adult-Physicl)
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. (Late Adult – Social)
Death and taxes (Death, Dying & Breavment) Category
100
Q: Presbyopia is known as the normal loss of ______ acuity with aging, especially the ability to focus the eyes on near objects.
What is Visual
100
Q: the term used to describe the sense that one is making a valuable contribution to society by bringing up children?
A. Presbycusis
B. Generativity
C. Gerontology
What is B. Generativity
100
Q: What does ADL stand for?
A. Activities of daily living
B. Activities of disabled leaders.
C. Artistic development level
What is A. Activities of daily living
100
Q: Most grandparents tell stories of their life because they are ________ about past events.
What is Reminiscing
100
Q. Hospice care is an approach used for those who are facing what?
A. Just turned 60
B. Terminally ill
C. Entering a nursing home
What is B. Terminally Ill
200
Q: The term used to describe the adult period during which reproductive capacity declines or is lost is known as what?
What is Climacteric
200
Q: Middle-aged adults are in what stage of Erickson’s social theory?
What is Gernerativity-versus-stagnation stage.
200
Q; What are three examples of instrumental activities of daily living?
What is Housework, cooking, managing money
200
Q: Late adulthood is associated with what one of Erickson’s stages?
What is Ego integrity versus despair
200
The term used to refer to the belief that bad things, including death, happen only to others.
What is Unique invulnerability
300
Q: middle-aged adults’ brains respond more ____ to cognitive tasks than those of younger adults.
A. Slowly
B. Quickly
C. Clearly
What is A. Slowly
300
Q: ______ percent of Grandparents in the US have full-time responsibility for a grandchild for 6 months or longer.
What is 10
300
How old is a man expected to live today?
What is 75 years
300
The term used when a person moves to a nursing home that is necessitated by a disability is called what?
A. Amenity move
B. Compensatory migration
C. Institutional migration
What is C. Institutional migration
300
Q: What is the most difficult death to recover from?
What is the death of a spouse.
400
Q: What are the three menopausal phases?
What is Premenopausal, Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal
400
Q. How early should a person start preparing for retirement?
What is 15 years before anticipated retirement
400
Adults older than 65 show a ____ in REM sleep.
What is Decrease
400
Late-aged adults who attend ________ services are physically and emotionally healthier than their peers who don’t attend.
What is Religious
400
Q: What are three states of death?
What is clinical death, brain death and social death
500
At what age do women experience major estrogen declines?
What is Late 40’s
500
Name the three mid-life tasks a person must confront according to Levinson.
What is Accepting mortality, recognizing new physical limitations and health risks and adapting to major changes in most roles.
500
Q: Name three theories of Biological Aging.
What is The hayflick limit, Genetically programmed senescence , Free radicals, Repair of genetic material and cross-linking
500
Q: What are the three components of Rowe and Kahn’s successful aging?
What is good physical health, retention of cognitive abilities and continuing engagements in social and productive activities.
500
Q: Name three of Kubler-Ross’s stages of dying.
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.