Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Which of the following is a disease that involves a progressive deterioration of brain cells, especially in the cerebral cortex, and is a common cause of dementia?

Eighty-year-old Jack has a limited ability to grasp abstractions. His memory for recent events is impaired. He is unable to cope with routine tasks, and can no longer relate to people. Jack most likely suffers from which of the following conditions:

According to the text, those persons aged 60 to 69 are considered

Smith believes that aging is the result of a genetically programmed set of changes that operate such that cells can only live for a certain length of time before they become unable to process glucose and die. Such a view would be most consistent with which of the following theoretical models?

Beginning around the time of her 70^th birthday, Margaret began to experience increasing problems in learning new things, with her memory, and with her motor coordination. She now is frequently confused, sometimes doesn't recognize people she has known for a long time, and her speech has become less fluent. The condition that would most likely be diagnosed in Margaret's case would be:

If you were a dietician at a restaurant in an extended care facility where active healthy people in older adulthood ate, you should know that, in comparison to younger adults, older adults need about _______ calories and about _______ nutrients.

Atherosclerosis is most closely linked to a diet high in:

If you were to interview 1,000 adults age 85 and over and ask them to rate their own health status, about how many people in this group would you expect to report that their health is "good" to "excellent"?

Statistically speaking, which of the following people is the MOST likely to be taking 3 or more prescription medicines?

The text cites recent studies of the brain that indicate that as adults age, their brain actually becomes _________ and the activity of their brain in the prefrontal cortex regions __________.

If you were to guess which of the following 90-year-old men would be LEAST likely to be honored and respected by his family and members of his culture, your best guess would be?

To say that a condition is chronic means that it: