Exam 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in the Later Years

Older adults become increasingly likely to suffer from _______________, which involves the wearing down of tissues around the skeletal joints.

In some cases, senescence demonstrates multidirectionality, demonstrated by simultaneous evidence of __________and ___________.

With respect to normative aging, all physical systems decline at the same rate.

Throughout history, females have and continue to have a longer life expectancy than males.

In the United States life expectancy has___________ over the past 150 years.

The "oldest-old" refers to those adults who live to be _____ or older.

Regular exercise in older adulthood has been associated with health benefits, but also the way they live their lives because exercise is associated with:

In later adulthood, a decline in cardiovascular health is indicated by changes in:

We can get a sense of the extent to which deterioration of the muscular system affects older adults by assessing whether there has been a decline in their ability to:

In older adulthood, adults become more likely to develop a specific type of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, which is classified as a(n) ______________ disease.

Beginning in middle adulthood and continuing through later adulthood, sarcopenia takes a toll on the health of the muscular system.

As adults age into later adulthood, they are more likely to experience ______________, which is experienced as pain in their bones, ligaments, tendons, or muscles not caused by accidents.

When older adults suffer from a decrease in their ________________skills, it becomes more difficult for them to ignore distractions when trying to have a conversation.

In memory research, the majority of significant life events recalled by older adults occur during the same period of time,

Even in older adulthood, it is well established that ________________ is an intervention that can slow functional decline associated with skeletal and muscular system aging.

Telomere length provides information about cellular health.

As adults age through the later stages of the lifespan they experience complications in the ability to use _________________ which allows people to work from a generalized perception to generate a more detailed understanding.

Both hearing loss and reduced sensitivity to touch can put older adults at risk due to a decreased likelihood that they will recognize:

Although 78-year-old Anne was strongly resistant to having full-time help at home, her adult children insisted because they knew that her hip fracture put her at significant risk for:

Relying on Hayflick's limit as a working assumption, an intervention designed to slow aging, maintain telomere health, and prevent disease would: