Question: When teenagers or older children understand they are dying, what is the best advice to give distraught parents?
Answer Options:
a) “Don’t discuss death; you’ll feel guilty later on.”, b) “You’ll be adding to your child’s distress if you talk about death.”, c) “It might help ease your pain if you discuss death with your child.”, d) “You’ll feel better not bringing up that stressful topic.”
Answer: c) “It might help ease your pain if you discuss death with your child.”
Question: In affluent nations, most people die from:
Answer Options:
a) age-related chronic diseases, b) homicide or suicide, c) infectious illnesses, d) an unknown cause
Answer: a) age-related chronic diseases
Question: Older people are often MORE _____ of dying than younger adults.
Answer Options:
a) accepting and less fearful, b) depressed and frightened, c) angry and rejecting, d) terrified and phobic
Answer: a) accepting and less fearful
Question: Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) who provide the hands-on care in nursing homes:
Answer Options:
a) feel their work is meaningful and generative, b) have trouble forming caring relationships with residents, c) are satisfied with their pay, especially in the United States, d) are mainly in it for the money
Answer: a) feel their work is meaningful and generative
Question: Which intervention helps prevent falling in later life?
Answer Options:
a) installing fluorescent lighting, b) installing bathtubs, c) using shiny floor tile, d) putting grab bars in bathrooms
Answer: d) putting grab bars in bathrooms
Question: Generalizing from the text, patients with early Alzheimer’s disease:
Answer Options:
a) can courageously face their disease and still enjoy life, b) retreat from loved ones, c) never know they have the disease, d) just get incredibly depressed
Answer: a) can courageously face their disease and still enjoy life
Question: Which is NOT a benefit of calorie restriction?
Answer Options:
a) lower risk of diabetes, b) better working memory, c) improved relationships, d) improved blood pressure
Answer: c) improved relationships
Question: Who is MOST likely to survive to their nineties?
Answer Options:
a) Christopher, a wealthy European American man, b) Marsha, a wealthy European American woman, c) Belinda, an African American woman, d) Francisco, a Hispanic American man
Answer: b) Marsha, a wealthy European American woman
Question: If Leah is having trouble cooking and Latanya can’t dress herself:
Answer Options:
a) Latanya has instrumental ADL impairments; Leah has basic ADL impairments, b) Both women have basic ADL impairments, c) Both women have instrumental ADL impairments, d) Leah has instrumental ADL impairments; Latanya has basic ADL impairments
Answer: d) Leah has instrumental ADL impairments; Latanya has basic ADL impairments
Question: A bottom-line message of this chapter is that the United States has:
Answer Options:
a) too many alternatives to nursing homes, b) far to go in providing excellent care for frail elderly people, c) excellent care for frail elderly people, d) no care for frail elderly people
Answer: b) far to go in providing excellent care for frail elderly people
Question: Are there effective anti-Alzheimer’s drugs? Today, the answer is:
Answer Options:
a) “Yes, if the medicines are taken at high doses.”, b) “Yes, if the medicines are taken at the middle stages of the illness.”, c) “Yes, if the medicines are taken in the last stages.”, d) “No.”
Answer: d) “No.”
Question: Physicians tend to be _____ when telling patients they have Alzheimer’s disease.
Answer Options:
a) angry, b) honest and upfront, c) cruel and uncaring, d) wary and use euphemistic phrases
Answer: d) wary and use euphemistic phrases
Question: One message of the later-life driving discussion is that:
Answer Options:
a) it’s fairly easy to convince older people not to drive, b) society is doing a great job at weeding out older at-risk drivers, c) we can clearly decide who should be driving and who should not, d) many at-risk older drivers are probably still on the road
Answer: d) many at-risk older drivers are probably still on the road
Question: When older adults have permanently impaired vision, they most likely feel:
Answer Options:
a) dependent, embarrassed, and depressed, b) angry, c) a sense of relief, d) closer to loved ones
Answer: a) dependent, embarrassed, and depressed
Question: If someone has the APOE-4 marker, this person:
Answer Options:
a) will definitely get a vascular neurocognitive disorder, b) is at much higher risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease, c) will definitely get Alzheimer’s disease, d) is at higher risk of getting a vascular neurocognitive disorder
Answer: b) is at much higher risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease
Question: Today, the MAIN goal for scientists studying Alzheimer’s is to:
Answer Options:
a) develop better methods for scanning the brain, b) devise better treatments once the illness has progressed, c) find precursors or biomarkers of the disease, d) understand why small strokes develop
Answer: c) find precursors or biomarkers of the disease
Question: The maximum human lifespan is _____.
Answer Options:
a) built into our genetic code, b) about age 85, c) decreasing due to pollution, d) decreasing due to poor medical care
Answer: a) built into our genetic code
Question: Nami wants advice on how to cope with a mother with Alzheimer’s disease. Based on the text, which suggestion is LEAST effective?
Answer Options:
a) “Use memory exercises to stimulate your mom’s brain.”, b) “Treat mom like a real person.”, c) “Keep mom safe by putting buzzers on doors and turning off the stove.”, d) “Don’t take mom’s insulting remarks personally.”
Answer: a) “Use memory exercises to stimulate your mom’s brain.”
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 nations without universal health care, b) only in affluent nations, c) in every nation, d) only in impoverished nations
Answer: c) in every nation.
Question: A fifty-something person says, “I can’t see well in the dark, and I can’t see close up.” The reason is that, by this age, the _____ of the eye gets cloudier and can’t bend well.
Answer Options:
a) pupil, b) lens, c) cornea, d) retina
Answer: b) lens
Question 1
Question: Which is the correct progression over time (that is, over the years)?
Answer Options:
a) ADL impairments; chronic disease; normal aging, b) normal aging; chronic disease; ADL impairments, c) chronic disease; normal aging; ADL impairments, d) normal aging; ADL impairments; chronic disease
Answer: b) normal aging; chronic disease; ADL impairments
Question 2
Question: The text suggests the main reason why Hispanic adults from low-income backgrounds live longer than expected is that they:
Answer Options:
a) have strong religious convictions, b) work at physically demanding, in-person jobs, c) take better care of their health, d) live in supportive, nurturing communities
Answer: d) live in supportive, nurturing communities
Question 3
Question: The health span refers to the number of years adults:
Answer Options:
a) exercise, b) can expect to live without ADL impairments, c) take care of their health, d) spend without visiting doctors
Answer: b) can expect to live without ADL impairments
Question 4
Question: Nami wants advice on how to cope with a mother with Alzheimer’s disease. Based on the text, which suggestion is LEAST effective?
Answer Options:
a) “Use memory exercises to stimulate your mom’s brain,” b) “Keep mom safe by putting buzzers on doors and turning off the stove,” c) “Treat mom like a real person,” d) “Don’t take mom’s insulting remarks personally”
Answer: a) “Use memory exercises to stimulate your mom’s brain”
Question 5
Question: Ms. Chernov has been diagnosed with a vascular neurocognitive disorder. When scientists examine this woman’s brain, they will mainly find:
Answer Options:
a) neurofibrillary tangles, b) senile plaques, c) small strokes, d) amyloid
Answer: c) small strokes
Question 6
Question: Grandma Rosalie has just been diagnosed with early-stage dementia. On average, the family can expect this woman to survive for another:
Answer Options:
a) 6 months, b) two decades, c) 1 year, d) 4 to 8 years
Answer: d) 4 to 8 years
Question 7