Your 94-year-old great-grandmother is having difficulty with bathing, dressing, food preparation and eating, housekeeping, and paying bills. Your family is considering getting some professional nursing care for her. During the interview with the nursing care provider, the nurse asks what your great-grandmother's major concerns are. What would you tell the nurse?

What concept signifies the actual competence and performance of older adults?

____ is the inevitable biological aging that takes place in all members of the human species, as it takes place in all living organisms, whereas ____ is the decline in physical functioning that takes place due to lifestyle behaviors such as unhealthy diet, insufficient exercise, and substance use, as well as environmental influences such as pollution.

Around the world, about how much longer will women at age 65 live longer than men?

What is a condition in which there is a progressive thickening of the lens causing vision to become cloudy, opaque, and distorted?

In some people, fluid builds up in the eye and the pressure damages the optic nerve, leading to ____, which causes loss of peripheral vision.

Impairments in taste and smell can sometimes lead to ____.

In late adulthood, the amount of time spent in Stage 1, the lightest sleep, ____, and time in the deepest sleep of Stage 4 and REM sleep ____.

Several aspects of aging in late adulthood contribute to sleep disturbances. For men, what leads to frequent urination and can disrupt sleep?

Which of the following is the most common chronic health problem in late adulthood?

Osteoporosis is a result of a steep ____.

Which of the following are three lifestyle practices that are discussed in the text that have a positive influence on health?

As aging occurs, people's ability to concentrate on a task for an extended period of time ____.

As aging occurs, what happens to people's ability to concentrate on a task for an extended period of time? In laboratory tests, older and younger adults were presented with a series of stimuli and required to press a key only when they see a particular pattern. Compared to younger adults, how did older adults do on this task? Older adults ____.

Your grandfather works on the New York Times crossword puzzle every day. He has been very good at solving the puzzle and nearly always does. His ability to remember the meaning of words has shown no decline as he has aged, and really shows very little decline for most older adults. What type of memory is this?

In the course of late adulthood people have increasing difficulty in remembering where they learned something or when an item was first used. What type of memory is this?

Which of the following are examples of factors that influence secondary aging?

In late adulthood the brain ____ and total brain mass ____.

Neurons are dying and being generated anew throughout life. What happens in late adulthood?

There is a strong negative association between Alzheimer's risk and ____.

According to Baltes and his colleagues, the most successful adaptation to declining physical and cognitive abilities in late adulthood involves ____.

The majority of research on emotions and the self-concept of individuals in late adulthood have concluded that most individuals have a greater number of:

According to Erikson, ego ___ involves looking back on one's life and accepting the outcome of it; whereas, ego ____ entails regrets and bitterness about the course of one's life, and a conclusion that it has not gone well and now cannot be changed.

____ facilities have separate apartments for each person, but residents are provided with meals in a common dining area, housekeeping services, transportation for shopping and medical appointments, and social activities; whereas, ____ provide all of these services as well as extensive medical care, and most residents are afflicted with dementia or other serious health problems.

In general, marital satisfaction tends to be the highest during:

Until the past century, people who survived into young adulthood and beyond were nevertheless susceptible to death from infection diseases such as ____.

Which of the following dramatically reduced death rates due to infectious diseases during the 20th century?

In developing countries ____ is/are the leading cause of death for children under age 5, whereas in developed countries ____ is/are the leading cause of death.

Which of the following are three factors cited in the text that contribute to heart disease?

Biologist Leonard Hayflick first discovered that cells can replicate themselves about ____ times before they lose their ability to reproduce.

____ lie in a part of the cell DNA at the end of chromosomes and are thought to be the location where cells lose their ability to replicate.

As they drift about the cell in their unstable state, ____ cause damage to the DNA and other structures the cell needs to function.

Your roommate is an avid runner. She runs at least 3 miles every day and generally runs 6 to 8 miles on the weekends. Researchers have suggested that people who run are more likely to have free radicals, which can be damaging to cells. The presence of what substance might help to reduce the damaging effects of free radicals?

Philip was watching a television show in which a doctor promoted reducing caloric intake as a means to increase longevity. The physician stated that if individuals reduced caloric intake by 30 to 50% it might increase one's lifespan by 50%. As discussed in the text, and related to this scenario, which of the following best describes the topic?

Surveys in (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 2008) developed countries have indicated that what percentage of people would prefer to die at home?

Your 32-year-old cousin is dying of terminal cancer. Although his hospital care has been extraordinarily good, his doctors have estimated that he only has two months of life left. All of the medical approaches have been exhausted and your family has decided to pursue what approach in an effort to make sure his emotional and spiritual needs are met, as well as to receive support themselves?

____ is when the focus of care is to relieve the patient's pain and suffering and provide care in a way that allows the person to die with dignity.

What are the differences between individuals who provide care for a dying person at home by themselves compared to individuals who also have hospice support? Two years later, caregiving family members who also had hospice care had ____.

Legislation in the Netherlands, the only developed country that allows assisted suicide, requires that doctors must first satisfy several conditions: the patient must express a desire to terminate his or her life, the patient's suffering is severe and unlikely to improve, other forms of care have been attempted, and a second doctor must be consulted to insure that these conditions have been met. In an anonymous survey what condition did doctors indicate that they frequently ignored?

What is the only state in the United States where active euthanasia is legal?

Your 91-year-old great-aunt has terminal cancer. You and she have had many conversations regarding what she would want done if she were incapacitated and could not make choices about any additional medical interventions. Because she knew in advance what she wanted to have happen, she created ____.

Your grandmother did not want medical personnel to attempt to prolong her life if her heart stopped or she stopped breathing. What type of agreement did she have to communicate these wishes?

A person who is designated to make treatment decisions on behalf of a dying person in the event of incapacitation is ____.

____ is the experience of losing a loved one, and ____ is the intense psychological response that often follows.

When people accept that the death of a loved one is inevitable and begin to adapt to it emotionally, what is happening?

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross proposes that some people travel through five stages of coping when diagnosed with a terminal illness. Which of the following best illustrates the stage of denial?

Even in early childhood, most children understand that death is ____; however, for most children it is not until middle childhood that they realize that death is ____.

Death anxiety is ____ in emerging adulthood, then ____ with age and is lowest in ____ adulthood.

Erikson proposed that the main crisis of late adulthood is ____.

In every religion the determination of the soul's destiny in the afterlife depends on ____.