Exam #5a

Caregiving can have costs for the family, who can become emotionally and physically drained.

What disease marked by high levels of blood glucose?

What is care which involves reducing pain and suffering and helping individuals die with dignity?

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by widespread brain deterioration associated with inflammation and accumulations of

What theory suggests the greater an organism’s rate of metabolism, the shorter its life span.

What is the idea that people are getting smarter with each generation.

What is the second most common form of dementia?

What stage of psychhosocial development did Erikson say middle adulthood expereinced?

What is Sarcopenia?

Providing financial and material support to aging parents and young children is refered to as the ______________.

Which of the following is a risk factor for Osteoporosis?

Aging is the result of the sequential switching on and off of certain genes.

What assumes there is a desire to maintain their habits and lifestyle, adapting as needed

Who is more likely to to seek out a job for extrinsic rewards?

What is it called when the optic nerve damaged by pressure from fluid buildup.

Who is more likely to marry after a spouse dies

Who initiates divorce more often?

What type of intelligence gives us the ability to remember and use information

The ability to adapt to changes over time, optimize current functioning, and compensate for losses is refered to as ____

Most adults go through a mid-life crisis.

Which of the following is a common stressor in middle adulthood?

When does memory peak?

What is the self that we hope we never become

What is the most common cause of dementia?

Timing of retirement influenced by

Which of the following is not a common cause of delirium?

What theory suggests cccumulated damage from oxygen radicals causes cells and eventually organs to stop functioning.

The understanding that death entails the complete and final end of all life-defining abilities or functional capacities.

Most adults in US are adequately prepared financially to retire.

What allows a person to control medical care and address actions after death?

Who reports closer relationships with elderly parents

Which is not a common cause of divorce?

The process of telling stories from one’s past, to oneself or others.

What is the length of an individual’s life?

More complex the task the ______ age-related decline in reaction time

Most people become grandparents around 60 years old.

What theory suggests immune system becomes confused and attacks its own body cells.

Which of the following is not a loss of ability associated with dementia?

What theory suggests cells and tissues have vital parts that wear out.

Men’s reproductive ability __________

_________________increases from emerging adulthood to mid-adulthood, then declines in later life.

What is the increased likelihood for recently widowed person to die?

What is the length of an individual’s life?

Which of the following is not a symptom of Parkinson's Disease?

The understanding that the processes involved in the transition from being alive to being dead.

Marriage in late adulthood is characterized by

What are the services that provide temporary relief for those who are caring for the elderly?

What is a program committed to making the end of life as free from pain, anxiety, and depression as possible?

Friendship is a good buffer against stress for both men and women

What type of memory is our motor skills and habits.

What assumes natural decline in social interaction as older adult anticipates end of life

What is created by the person of sound mind to describe their desires about medical care

Religion is positively associated with all of the following except

What is setting up a health care proxy to make medical decisions

Which form of dementia is reversible?

Which form of dementia is caused by strokes, or blockages of blood vessels in the brain

The understanding that death is caused by events or conditions that trigger natural processes within the organism.

Which of the following is not an approach to study wisdom?

Optimism, conscientiousness, and positive emotions are associated with

When a woman permanently stops ovulating and menstruating it is called __________?

Cardiovascular disease is marked by all of the following except?

Biological clocks act through hormones to control the pace of aging

What is it called when there is deterioration of retina.

What stage of psychhosocial development did Erikson say late adulthood expereinced?

Marriage satisfaction _____ as child-rearing tasks decline.

The understanding that death is universal, that all living things will someday die.

High levels of wisdom are common.

What type of memory is our ability to solve a problem or answer a question.

Great-grandparenthood fosters a sense of longevity.

What is the belief held that bodies age according to a normal developmental timetable built into the genes

Who shows more changes in gender idenity over adulthood?

A programmed decline in immune system functions leads to increased vulnerability to infectious disease and to aging.

Agreeableness and conscientiousness ______ and neuroticism _____

What type of intelligence helps solve problems that require little or no previous knowledge like discovering patterns

What is the age to which a person in a particular cohort is statistically likely to live?

What is the leading cause of death?

When do we have peak in mental abilities?

Who is more likely to to seek out a job for extrinsic rewards?

The reflection on past experiences and one’s life, greater self-understanding and assignment of meaning to their lives.

The risk of Alzheimer’s disease __________ exponentially with age.

What is important for feelings of well-being and self-esteem?

What is it called when there is thickening of lens.

Siblings reported as close friends, with the exception of geographic distance

What is it called when we emphasize relationships that are important/meaningful.

When does expertise peak?

What type of memory is the retention of information about the where and when of life's happenings.

Which of the following guides and motivates our choices and future oriented behaviors?

What is how well a person functions in a physical and social environment?

Religiosity __________ across the lifespan.

What is the longest period that members of a species can live?

Who reports more stress when children move out?

What is the age people feel themselves to be?

Which of the following is not a common symptom of hormonal changes in women?

What is a painlessly ending lives of individuals who are suffering from an incurable disease or severe disability

For older adults friendship quality ______ while quantity _______.

What type of memory includes a person's fields of expertise, general academic knowledge, and everyday knowledge.

The cornea flattens, lens loses flexibility, and the muscle that permits the lens to change shape weakens characterize

What assumes there are declines in social interaction are a function of social barriers to engagement

Which form of dementia is characterized by visual hallucinations, sleep disorders, and fluctuating cognitive symptoms?

Which of the following does not infulence the relationship with grandchildren influenced