Match the Term with the Definition

Short Answer

Match the term with the definition.
1) life expectancy
2) life span
3) gender age
4) gerotranscendence
5) baby boom
6) age cohort
7) baby bust
8) activity theory
9) continuity theory
10) Townsend Plan
11) dependency ratio
12) Gray Panthers
13) AARP
14) technological life
15) hospice
-A) a large number of births within a relatively short span of years, leading to a population of individuals who proceed through the life course together
B) an organization founded in 1970 to fighting ageism on behalf of both young and old
C) the number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live
D) one of the first retirement proposals, one that would have paid older Americans a monthly stipend funded by a national sales tax
E) the idea that people adjust to retirement by continuing aspects of their earlier lives
F) the maximum length of life of a species; for humans, the longest time that a human can live
G) the self-transformation that the elderly experience to feel more at home with the universe
H) people born at roughly the same time who pass through the life course together
I) a form of existence that lies between life and death, but is neither
J) a place (or services brought to someone's home) for the purpose of giving comfort and dignity to a dying person
K) a small number of births within a relatively short span of years who proceed through the life course together
L) the powerful political organization listing 39 million members that lobbies for the needs of older Americans
M) the number of workers who are needed to support one dependent person (age 65 or older, and age 15 or younger)
N) the relative value placed on men's and women's ages
O) the view that satisfaction during old age is related to a person's amount and quality of activity