Exam 6: Preparing for Aging Societies

What strongly affected China's current demographic profile?

Social safety net programs were designed to fit all demographic contexts.

If a nation has a fast-growing demographic of adults older than 65 years while all other age demographics keep the same rate of growth, what is occurring?

______ policies encourage citizens to have more children.

One factor that mitigates the effect of population aging in the United States is the lower average life expectancy as compared to other peer nations.

What can mainstream media and social media potentially influence in relation to generational conflicts?

Give at least two examples of how communities can promote aging in place.

What disease has heavy financial and psychological demands for patient care and a predicted rapid rise in incidence in populations?

According to the modernization theory of aging, what condition describes the change in status of older people?

If an older woman is Hispanic and unmarried, she is likely to experience what?

Jana just became a citizen of a country and is granted the right to participate in a program that will give her a pension when she retires. What is this kind of program also known as?

Give an example for at least three target areas for making communities age-friendly.

If Lorena frequently makes age-disparaging jokes about herself and exclusively associates with people decades younger than herself, what may she be experiencing?

If half of a population is above the age of 29, age 29 is the ______.

How does cumulative disadvantage affect the experience of old age?

Why are population pyramids useful for social scientists?

Attention to the font and size of lettering on directional signs addresses what element of age-friendliness?

Pronatalist policies discourage citizens from having children.

List at least three important non-demographic factors that influenced recent increases in U.S. health care expenditures.

Understanding that the sustainability of entitlements relies on complex and various factors is an example of a critical gerontology approach.