Lifespan Development-ch23: Promoting Health In Older Adults

Question 1

A day care center that provides health and social services to the older person

Answer 1

Adult day care

Question 2

Deep and profound prejudice in American society against older adults

Answer 2

Ageism

Question 3

Disease that involves progressive dementia, memory loss, and inability to care for self

Answer 3

Alzheimer’s disease

Question 4

Facility with various degrees of personal care assistance designed to meet the needs of an older person

Answer 4

Assisted living

Question 5

An opacity of the eye lens or its capsule that blocks the light rays

Answer 5

Cataract

Question 6

People maintain their values, habits, and behavior in old age

Answer 6

Continuity theory

Question 7

A global impairment of cognitive function that usually is progressive and maybe permanent; interferes with normal social and occupational activities

Answer 7

Dementia

Question 8

Aging involves mutual withdrawal (disengagement) between the older person and others in the elderly persons environment

Answer 8

Disengagement theory

Question 9

Difficult or labored breathing

Answer 9

Dyspnea

Question 10

Medical care of the elderly

Answer 10

Geriatrics

Question 11

The study of aging in older adults

Answer 11

Gerontology

Question 12

A core body temperature below the lower limit of normal

Answer 12

Hypothermia

Question 13

Excessive convex curvature of the thoracic spine

Answer 13

Kyphosis

Question 14

The repository for information stored for periods longer than 72 hours and usually weeks and years

Answer 14

Long-term memory

Question 15

Demineralization of the bone

Answer 15

Osteoporosis

Question 16

Spontaneous fractures to which elderly persons are prone

Answer 16

Pathologic fractures

Question 17

The ability to interpret the environment through the senses

Answer 17

Perception

Question 18

Generalize loss of hearing related to aging

Answer 18

Presbycusis

Question 19

Loss of elasticity of the lens and thus loss of ability to see close objects as a result of the aging process

Answer 19

Presbyopia

Question 20

Deals with activities of the recent past of minutes to a few hours

Answer 20

Recent memory

Question 21

Steady decrease in muscle fibers

Answer 21

Sarcopenia

Question 22

Momentary perception of stimuli by the senses

Answer 22

Sensory memory

Question 23

Information held in the brain for immediate use or what one has in mind any given moment

Answer 23

Short-term memory

Question 24

The best way to age is to stay active physically and mentally

Answer 24

Activity theory