Exam 16: Older Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Diabetes is a chronic disease that involves a problem with the body's use of, or production of, _________, a protein produced in the pancreas that is needed to break down molecules of _______.

Unless a brain disease is involved, the brains of older adults typically become slightly larger and heavier with advancing age.

Robert is diagnosed as having glaucoma. He should anticipate that the recommended treatment for this condition will most likely be:

In most Asian nations, the tradition of filial piety is becoming stronger as the population is aging.

The two most common specific sources of dementia are strokes and Alzheimer's disease.

If Leila is hospitalized and the diagnosis is "multi-infarct dementia," her family would know that she has:

From 1950 to 2050 in the U. S., the proportion of people age 65 and over in the population is expected to:

If aging is caused by processes that allow cells to divide a limited number of times, this view would be a good example of a biological clock theory of aging.

According to the text, what percent of people over age 75 are probably affected by at least one chronic condition?

The term senility refers to the normal aging not connected with the occurrence of disease in an individual, and to the universal biological process of aging.

The term that usually is used to describe general, overall intellectual functioning is:

The type of diabetes that typically develops in adulthood and is linked to obesity is called:

According to the text, older adults experience the largest decline in their ability to manage which of the following types of memory?

Of all the cosmetic surgical procedures performed today in the U.S., Botox injection is the most common.

Generalizing from research described in the text, you would expect older adults to suffer the greatest memory decrement on which of the following tasks?

Which of the following abilities improves, or increases, with advancing age into older adulthood?

Most studies find little or no difference in the short-term memory performance of young and older adults.

The average annual prescription drug cost for non-institutionalized Medicare recipients was about ____ in 1992, compared to about ____ in 2004.

Alzheimer's disease is now the fifth leading cause of death among people age 65 and over.

According to the text, the upper end of the lifespan is thought to be about age: