Exam 17: Aging Families

Later life couples who hold more __________ attitudes toward gender roles report significantly higher levels of marital happiness.

A 2009 national survey of Americans age 45 and older found that ___________ of men and women with partners had had sexual intercourse within the prior six months.

According to Silverstein and Bengston's analysis, the most common relationship between a mother and her adult child was

Women account for about __________ of all unpaid caregivers.

Three general styles of grandparenting are identified in the text. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Before Social Security and Medicare were initiated, the elderly were disproportionately poor.

The __________ model of elder abuse and neglect views abusive or neglectful caregivers as individuals who are simply overwhelmed by the requirements of caring for their elderly family members.

Very few tax-funded, charity, and for-profit services provide eldercare.

__________ refers to the period of life free of disability in activities of daily living, after which may follow a period of being at least somewhat disabled.

The family's "__________" face provides individuals with intimacy, emotional support, and love.

In 2010, American society's median age was almost _____, up from 30 in 1980.

Up to 40 percent of eldercare is provided by the elderly care receiver's spouse.

An important feature of the latent kin matrix is that, although they may remain dormant for long periods, family relations with adult siblings and extended kin emerge as a resource when

The adult child involved in a parent's care is far more likely to be a daughter (or even a daughter-in-law) than a son.

The __________ model of elder abuse and neglect views elder abuse as a form of unlawful family violence and focuses on negative personal characteristics of abusers and on a possible criminal justice response.

Silverstein and Bengston concluded that the majority of intergenerational relationships between adult children and parents were neither tight-knit nor distant, but

In Silverstein and Bengston's typology of intergenerational relationships, which type is characterized by adult children not being engaged with their parents based on any of the six indicators?

According to demographers, people aged 65-74 are categorized as the

The high birth rate between 1946 and 1964 created what is commonly called the __________.

Today, and increasingly in the future, there will be more adult siblings available to share in the care of their elderly parents.