Question: Statistically speaking, who is MOST likely to develop ADL impairments in their fifties?
Answer Options:
a) a male high school graduate, b) a female college graduate, c) a female high school graduate, d) a male college graduate
Answer: c) a female high school graduate
Question 8
Question: To increase the health span, which strategy is LEAST effective?
Answer Options:
a) constructing caring communities, b) improving college graduation rates, c) preventing premature births, d) improving surgical techniques for treating old-age diseases
Answer: d) improving surgical techniques for treating old-age diseases
Question 9
Question: Coral’s troubles with cooking and cleaning make living independently impossible, but this woman can still walk and feed herself. Which housing alternative would be best for Coral?
Answer Options:
a) a continuing-care retirement community—if financially viable, b) a continuing-care retirement community—whether Coral is affluent or not, c) an assisted-living facility—if financially viable, d) an assisted-living facility—whether she is affluent or not
Answer: c) an assisted-living facility—if financially viable
Question 10
Question: Which nation does an exceptional job at providing services to its frail older citizens?
Answer Options:
a) Denmark, b) South Korea, c) the United States, d) China
Answer: a) Denmark
Question 11
Question: Low socioeconomic–status adults age faster and die at a younger age than their wealthy counterparts. This is true:
Answer Options:
a) only in affluent nations, b) only in nations without universal health care, c) in every nation, d) only in impoverished nations
Answer: c) in every nation
Question 12
Question: Why are scientists pessimistic about extending the human maximum lifespan?
Answer Options:
a) People love to eat more than they should, b) People will always die of accidents, c) People will always die of infectious diseases, d) Aging has complex causes, so a single antiaging intervention can’t work
Answer: d) Aging has complex causes, so a single antiaging intervention can’t work
Question 13
Question: Which person is LEAST likely to have presbycusis?
Answer Options:
a) Morris, whose ears periodically ring, b) Melford, who is 65 and spent a career as a drummer, c) Marietta, who has trouble hearing in noisy environments, d) Maria-Jose, who cannot hear high-pitched tones
Answer: d) Maria-Jose, who cannot hear high-pitched tones
Question 14
Question: Miri is 80 and cannot walk or dress herself. Miri has _____ activities of daily living (ADL) impairments and may need to move to a nursing home.
Answer Options:
a) chronic, b) instrumental, c) serious, d) basic
Answer: d) basic
Question 15
Question: In nursing homes, staff members _____ report having been abused by a resident.
Answer Options:
a) never, b) rarely, c) often, d) occasionally
Answer: c) often
Question 16
Question: List the examples of instrumental ADL and basic ADL impairments in order.
Answer Options:
a) trouble cooking; trouble feeding oneself, b) trouble cleaning house; trouble cooking, c) trouble dressing oneself; trouble cooking, d) trouble feeding oneself; trouble cooking
Answer: a) trouble cooking; trouble feeding oneself
Question 17
Question: Which intervention helps prevent falling in later life?
Answer Options:
a) putting grab bars in bathrooms, b) using shiny floor tile, c) installing bathtubs, d) installing florescent lighting
Answer: a) putting grab bars in bathrooms
Question 18
Question: Who is MOST at risk of developing hearing problems in middle age?
Answer Options:
a) a sales associate, b) a professor of psychology, c) a drummer in a rock group, d) the actor on a reality show
Answer: c) a drummer in a rock group
Question 19
Question: Normal aging changes:
Answer Options:
a) are totally different than chronic diseases, b) begin in midlife, c) get worse over time, d) begin in old age
Answer: b) begin in midlife
Question 20
Question: Who is MOST vulnerable to dying from diseases of despair (for example, suicide or overdose) in the United States?
Answer Options:
a) elderly men, b) middle-aged men, c) middle-aged women, d) elderly women
Answer: b) middle-aged men
Question 21
Question: Which career is MOST likely to produce hearing problems at an earlier-than-normal age?
Answer Options:
a) lawyer, b) teacher, c) airline baggage handler, d) psychologist
Answer: c) airline baggage handler
Question 22
Question: Grandma lives with Trey’s family, but she is forgetful, and Trey’s mom and dad are worried about leaving Grandma alone while they are at work. The BEST alternative for this woman is a(n):
Answer Options:
a) nursing home, b) assisted-living facility, c) day-care center, d) continuing-care retirement community
Answer: c) day-care center
Question 23
Question: If someone has presbycusis, hearing _____ is particularly difficult.
Answer Options:
a) every sound, b) low-pitched tones, c) loud sounds, d) high-pitched tones
Answer: d) high-pitched tones
Question 24
Question: What is the relationship between normal aging and chronic disease?
Answer Options:
a) Normal aging begins at the same age as does chronic disease, b) The signs of normal aging are totally different than chronic disease, c) Normal aging changes, when they get severe, often become chronic disease, d) Normal aging is exactly the same as chronic disease
Answer: c) Normal aging changes, when they get severe, often become chronic disease
Question 25
Question: In the United States, nursing homes are mainly financed by _____.
Answer Options:
a) Social Security, b) pensions, c) Medicare, d) Medicaid
Answer: d) Medicaid
Question 26
Question: People worldwide link old age with _____.
Answer Options:
a) mental decline, b) anger, c) kindness, d) caring
Answer: a) mental decline
Question 27
Question: Which memory suggestion is LEAST helpful for older people?
Answer Options:
a) Avoid situations where you have to multitask, b) Don’t tax your brain by trying to memorize material, c) Use mnemonic techniques, d) Avoid situations where you have to learn and remember material very quickly
Answer: d) Avoid situations where you have to learn and remember material very quickly
Question 28
Question: Who is MOST likely to be depressed?
Answer Options:
a) a 70-year-old who has never married, b) a 100-year-old who is married, with close friends, c) a 65-year-old who has just retired, d) a 90-year-old who is socially isolated and physically frail
Answer: d) a 90-year-old who is socially isolated and physically frail
Question 29
Question: Compared to a 20-year-old, socioemotional selectivity implies an 80-year-old would:
Answer Options:
a) prefer social media to talking one to one, b) dislike social media, c) use social media far less frequently, d) use social media only to keep in touch with family
Answer: c) use social media far less frequently
Question 30
Question: One implication of the text is that people most often search for post-retirement jobs because they:
Answer Options:
a) don’t get along with their families, b) need the money, c) want to work less than full time at their career job, d) want to continue to work in their own field
Answer: b) need the money
Question 31
Question: When 30-year-olds and 70-year-olds make memory mistakes, observers are apt to conclude:
Answer Options:
a) everyone is mentally declining, b) varying things, depending on the observer, c) the older adults are cognitively declining; the young people have too much on their minds, d) everyone has too much on their minds
Answer: c) the older adults are cognitively declining; the young people have too much on their minds
Question 32
Question: Widowed people do best when they:
Answer Options:
a) deny their pain, b) immerse themselves in grief, c) establish new routines, d) join widowed person’s groups
Answer: c) establish new routines
Question 33