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| in most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men. | live a few years longer
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| america's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except: | medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt
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| the measures that compares the number of men to women in a population is ______. | sex ratio
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| the "graying of the united states" refers to ______. | the increasing percentage of the population over 65
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| what is the approximate median age of the united states? | 37
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| Thanatology is the study of _______. | death and dying
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| In Erik Erikson's development stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle? | overcoming despair to achieve integrity
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| who wrote the book on death and dying, outlining the five stages of grief? | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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| For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is _______. | the typical sequence of events in their lives
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| in the united states, life expectancy rates in recent decades have ______. | continued to gradually rise.
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| today in the united states the poverty rate of the elderly is _____. | increasing
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| which action reflects ageism? | speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65
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| which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment? | being frail to the point of dependency on care
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| if elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by_______. | caregivers
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| veterans are two to four times more likely to ______ as people who did not serve in the military. | commit suicide
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| which assertion about aging in men would be made by a sociologist following the functionalist perspective? | men who remain active after retirement play supportive community roles.
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| an older women retires and completely changes her life. she is no longer raising children or working. however, she joins the YWCA to swim every day. she serves on the Friends of the library board. she is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bunco on Sa | activity
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| an older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the _____ theory. | disengagement
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| what is the primary driver of modernization theory? | industrilization
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| the age discrimination in employment act counteracts which theory. | age stratification
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