Health Promotion for Older Adults
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Course Introduction
This course examines the principles and practices of health promotion specifically tailored to older adults. Students will explore the biological, psychological, and social factors influencing aging and how these impact health behavior and outcomes. Emphasis is placed on assessment techniques, evidence-based interventions, and strategies for enhancing wellness, preventing disease, and managing chronic conditions in older populations. The course also covers policy, environmental, and community-based approaches that support healthy aging and empower older adults to maintain independence and improve quality of life.
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Aging Concepts and Controversies 9th Edition by Harry R. Moody
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Chapter 1: Does Old Age Have Meaning
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Q1) Scott-Maxwell argues that in old age, people have no duties except to themselves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) As people get older, overall participation in leisure activities tends to:
A) Increase
B) Decrease
C) Remain the same as earlier in life
Answer: B
Q3) Life satisfaction is ______ among those with high levels of religious commitment compared to those with no sense of religious commitment.
A) higher
B) lower
C) about the same
Answer: A
Q4) People tend to become more religious as they age.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Why Do Our Bodies Grow Old
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Q1) According to Mor, the compression of morbidity hypothesis is now generally accepted as valid.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The time-dependent biological process that involves functional loss and susceptibility to disease and death is called ______.
A) the Gompertz law
B) normal aging
C) successful aging
D) the wear-and-tear theory of aging
E) the Hayflick limit
Answer: B
Q3) Olshansky finds that throughout much of human history, many individuals have believed that physical immortality was soon within reach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Do Intelligence and Creativity Decline With
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Q1) Cross-sectional studies of intelligence may reveal differences between young and old people that do not arise from age but from characteristics of different cohorts, including which of the following?
A) Young people are more familiar than old people with test taking.
B) Old people show more test anxiety than young people.
C) Some old people accept the prejudices of ageism and believe that intelligence declines with age.
D) Young people are less cautious than old people and may be more likely to guess at the answer on tests of intelligence.
E) All of these.
Answer: E
Q2) According to Cohen, wisdom is the expression of developmental intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Intelligence has potential for growth even at advanced ages.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Should We Ration Health Care for Older People
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Q1) Do you agree or disagree with Callahan who argues that health care should be rationed on the basis of chronological age? Explain.
Q2) Ubel argues that health care rationing is already a widespread practice in the United States and elsewhere, even outside of managed care organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the arguments for and against rationing health care on the basis of age? As the number of Medicare enrollees is projected to increase dramatically in the years ahead, what changes to Medicare would you propose in order to contain costs? Explain.
Q4) According to Hentoff, several influential individuals and numerous bioethicists support Callahan's proposal in spite of individuals' "equal protection of the laws" under the Fourteenth Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What do Perry and Butler mean by an extended "health span"? How do they propose extending not just the life span but also the "health span"?
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Chapter 5: Should Families Provide for Their Own
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Q1) Quinn argues that middle- and upper-middle-class people are acting irresponsibly when they rid themselves of their assets to qualify for Medicaid.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The vast majority of care for aged relatives is provided by women, typically wives, daughters, or daughters-in-law.
A)True B)False
Q3) How is institutionally based long-term care financed? How can individuals qualify for Medicaid coverage of nursing homes costs?
Q4) Half of the states in the United States have laws that could compel filial responsibility of care for the aged.
A)True B)False
Q5) While divesting of one's assets to qualify for Medicaid is legal, Strauss and Lederman argue that it is an unethical practice.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Should Older People Be Protected From Bad Choices
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Q1) Evaluating the competency of clients necessitates working with the characteristics of the individual older adult.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How is a case of potential elder abuse different from a case of potential child abuse?
A) The aged are more vulnerable physically, socially, and emotionally
B) Children are more likely than elders to be victims of financial exploitation
C) People of all ages have a right to live in ways that others may judge risky
D) An adult, unlike a child, is always presumed mentally competent until proven otherwise
E) None of the above
Q3) Sexuality is a normal part of the human life course, including in later life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe what is meant by "guardianship." How can guardianship be helpful or harmful to vulnerable adults?
Q5) Research has failed to find a clear relationship between age and fear of crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Should People Have the Choice to End Their Lives
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Q1) Most older suicide victims live alone.
A)True
B)False
Q2) McKhann prefers to use which of the following terms to describe the person who wishes to die and asks for help?
A) Assisted suicide
B) Active euthanasia
C) Physician-assisted dying
D) Passive euthanasia
E) None of the above
Q3) Which of the following are predictors of suicide?
A) Intolerable psychological pain and frustration
B) A feeling of hopelessness or helplessness
C) Expressing the intent to kill oneself
D) A and B are true
E) All of the above
Q4) Explain McKhann's arguments in favor of physician-assisted dying. Do you agree or disagree with McKhann? Explain.
Q5) Why is depression difficult to diagnose in older adults?
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Chapter 9: What Is the Future for Social Security
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Q1) The income threshold for taxing Social Security benefits for individuals is ______.
A) $5,000
B) $19,999
C) $25,000
D) $29,999
E) None of the above
Q2) According to Thompson, the hypothetical average worker used in most discussions of Social Security policy receives a benefit that is substantially higher than that of actual retirees.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Steuerle and Favreault argue that it is possible to implement reforms in Social Security such that everybody wins.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Social Security was never intended to be the sole source of income for people in retirement.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Is Retirement Obsolete
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Q1) Research has demonstrated that retirement is bad for older adults' health and that they often die soon after leaving the work force.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Retirement is a one-time transition from full-time work around the age of 65.
A)True
B)False
Q3) "Creative retirement" has more to do with how people choose to spend their time in retirement than with how they experience, feel, and think about the ways they are engaged with others.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Caro, Bass and Chen, "productive aging" includes nearly all activities of older people, including education for personal growth.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What does Manheimer mean by "creative retirement"? What advice would you give Gale and Cliff on how to have a creative retirement?
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Chapter 11: Aging Boomers: Boom or Bust
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Q1) People of all ages were affected by the expansion and availability of the Internet in 1990s. This is an example of what kind of effect?
A) Aging effect
B) Modernization effect
C) Period effect
D) Cohort effect
E) None of the above
Q2) According to McArdle, the next 20 years will require a transfer of resources away from the care of children to the care of older people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Boomers in the United States have been represented to the public in contradictory ways: on the one hand, as selfish and negative, on the other hand, as idealistic and positive. Discuss this, providing examples of these conflicting stereotypes used to characterize the boomers.
Q4) McArdle begins the excerpt from No Country for Young Men by asking the question, "Will America look better, worse, or just different?" as a result of the aging of the boomers. How do your answer her questions? Provide support for your answers.
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Q1) The 50-plus segment of the U.S. population controls three-quarters of the total net worth and financial assets of the country, or more than _______.
A) $3 billion
B) $7 billion
C) $7 trillion
D) $9 trillion
E) None of the above
Q2) The authors of Marketplace of Memory critique the brain fitness movement. What are examples of brain fitness products being marketed to boomers and older adults? What are the authors' major concerns about this movement?
Q3) According to Furlong, the boomer market is misunderstood by many businesses "that assume all boomers share the same tastes and passions, and that 60 'then' is the same as 60 'now.' In fact, the boomer generation represents hundreds of market segments." What are some of the market segments Furlong identifies? Are there any potential segments she has left out of her discussion?
Q4) The American Medical Association supports the anti-aging movement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Basic Concepts I: Life Course Perspective on Aging Life Course Perspective on Aging
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Q1) The ______ theory of aging holds that the more engaged people are, the more likely they are to be satisfied with life.
A) disengagement
B) activity
C) technology
D) modernization
E) continuity
Q2) This theory of aging posits that in old age, people maintain the habits, personality, and lifestyle that they developed in their younger years.
A) modernization
B) continuity
C) technology
D) disengagement
E) activity
Q3) Why is the disengagement theory of aging criticized by some contemporary gerontologists?
Q4) Most people over age 65 suffer from dementia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Basic Concepts II: Aging, Health Care, and Society
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Q1) Many people fear the prospect of having to live in a nursing home. Discuss some reasons for this prevalent fear, whether or not this fear is realistic, and the conditions under which living in such a setting may be appropriate.
Q2) ______ is the chief government program that pays for health care for older Americans.
A) Medicaid
B) Medicare
C) Social Security
D) The Older Americans Act
E) none of these
Q3) The term long-term care covers health care and social services for those who need extensive help with daily life because of a chronic illness or condition.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Long-term care costs are projected to increase dramatically in the 21st century.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Basic Concepts III: Social and Economic
Outlook for an Aging Society
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Q1) The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 regulates private pension plans in the United States and provides protection against loss of benefits to retired workers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The poverty rate is highest among which of the following groups?
A) aged persons
B) adults aged 50-64 years
C) adults aged 18-49 years
D) children under 18 years
Q3) What are the implications of an increasingly ethnically diverse population for aging in American society?
Q4) As a large demographic group, older Americans have much higher levels of total wealth compared with younger people.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe how gender, race, and social class intersect to influence the experience of aging in the United States.
Q6) Discuss the importance of Social Security for today's older adults.
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