The stage of the demographic transition where birth rates and death rates are both high
What is the fourth stage?
100
A tax rate of 6.2% that most employees must pay.
What is the Social Security tax rate?
100
A term used for older adults who want to remain in their own homes as they age.
What is "aging in place?"
100
A type of document delegates that a person who will make financial decisions on your behalf if you become unable to do so.
What is a financial power of attorney?
100
This program provides healthcare and long-term care to low income individuals.
What is Medicaid?
200
The level of theory that examines entire societies and social institutions.
What is a macro-level theory?
200
An educational institution that
middle aged and older employees are increasingly relying on after having being displaced from their jobs.
What is a community college?
200
A type of facility provides medical care and assistance with ADLs and IADLs to individuals who need very high levels of care.
What is a nursing home?
200
A type of document that delegates a person who will make healthcare decisions on your behalf if you become unable to do so.
What is a healthcare power of attorney?
200
The part of Medicare that covers hospital visits
What is Medicare Part A?
300
Age-related hearing loss
What is presbycusis?
300
A program that lets older adults study within their own communities, without a grade.
What is an Institute of Learning in Retirement?
300
Federal housing subsidies provided for low income older adults.
What is Section 202 housing?
300
A category of documents that provides instructions regarding financial and medical decisions at the end of life.
What is an advanced directive?
300
A part of the Affordable Care Act that requires people to have insurance or pay a penalty.
What is the individual mandate?
400
A hypothesis that describes the idea that as populations live longer they are less likely to be disabled
What is compression of morbidity?
400
A kind of retirement plan offered by employers provides a guaranteed benefit for life
What is a DB pension plan?
400
A place that provides a range of care options (i.e., nursing homes, assisted living, and independent living) so that individuals can stay in the community as they lose functional ability.
What is a continuing care retirement community?
400
Emotions, actions, and expressions of having gone through a loss
What is grief?
400
A part of the Affordable Care Act that allows individuals to compare local health plans with each other and receive subsidies for these health plans.
What are healthcare marketplaces?
500
The three components of Rowe and Kahn's successful aging theory.
What are active engagement with life, low risk of disease and disability, and good physical and mental functioning?
500
A type of retirement plan that puts the risk on workers to save for retirement
What is a DC pension plan?
500
A means for older adults to borrow money against their homes.
What is a home equity conversion mortgage?
500
The outward expression of loss (such as wearing black to a funeral)