Exam 5: Aging and Inequality

What is the term for doctors stopping the treatment of a terminally ill person by turning off respirators or other life-support machines?

The government-sponsored program that pays for hospital care and 80 percent of other medical care costs for people over the age of sixty-five is

As of early 2012, which states have enacted laws allowing physicians to assist in the deaths of terminally ill people?

In a ______, the greatest wealth, power, and prestige belong to a society's oldest members.

What type of facility offers homelike care that provides physical and emotional comfort to dying people and their families?

Which of the following terms refers to a branch of the social sciences dealing with aging and the elderly?

What percentage of the 72,000 centenarians in the United States (people aged 100 years or older) are women?

In Japan, a very low birthrate has resulted in

According to disengagement theory, what event eases aging people out of productive roles while they are still capable of performing them?

Intersection theory helps us to see that