Exam 10: Social Work and Services for Older Adults

Due to the advances of the 20th century in health and well-being, it is projected that people born in 2010 will live almost _____ years longer than those born in 1970.

The vast majority of older adults reside in nursing homes.

Autonomy is a strategy of empowerment for older adults to help them live as independently as possible.

Ageism involves harboring negative images of and attitudes toward people simply because they are older.

Juan is a social worker in Loving Acres nursing home. His client, Ezekiel, feels like he has no options or control over his life there. Juan decides to help Ezekiel make his own choices about how his room is decorated, lets him wear whatever types of clothes he wants to wear (within reason), and tells him he can eat whatever he chooses. Juan is helping Ezekiel maintain his:

A _____ is a written document that states what a patient does or does not want in medical treatment should he or she become incapacitated.

Which of the following is not one of the stages of Kubler-Ross's model of the stages of emotions of a person who has learned that he or she as a terminal illness?

Hospices are places where seniors can gather for social, recreational, and educational reasons.

Using critical thinking, write your conclusions about each of the following myths. A. All older adults are burdened with multiple physical complaints and are riddled with disease. B. Old people are unattractive, have no teeth, and can barely see or hear. C. Old people sleep all the time. D. All old people are senile.

A survey of nonretired workers indicated that the average age of planned retirement was 55 (Carroll, 2008).

According to the Navajo tradition, Earth Surface People refers to living and dead humans.

If a person is trying to encourage public officials to vote for a bill before Congress that would benefit his or her clients, the person is involved in:

Explain the concept of "global graying."

According to a study conducted by Karger and Stoesz (2014), of the older adults living in the United States, almost _____ would fall below the poverty line if they were not receiving Social Security benefits.

Traditional Navajo people have many restrictions regarding contact with the dead.