Exam 6: Youth and Aging

The elderly are more likely to be victims of crime than are the young.

Discuss the victimization and abuse of the elderly in Canada. What is the emerging profile of the abused? Most often, who is the abuser?

Secondary aging exacerbates and accelerates primary aging.

Men die at an earlier age for purely physiological reasons.

According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, how are the elderly portrayed in the media?

What are age pyramids?

The more primitive a society is, the more likely that society is to practise senilicide.

What is ageism?

According to 1996 Canadian data, what group of people is most likely to be living in poverty?

What is the period of childhood in Canadian society?

In Canada, the northern territories tend to have the lowest median age.

According to activity theory, why do the elderly disengage from social roles?

Ontario's law that repealed mandatory retirement came into effect in 2006.

In 2001 in Canada, a higher percentage of senior women than senior men lived in health care institutions.

First Nations women and women with disabilities are more likely than other Canadian women to be covered by private pension plans.

What is the term for the number of societal members that are under age 18 or over 65 compared with the number of people who are between age 18 and 64?

According to a 1995 Supreme Court of Canada ruling, what occupation may still be subject to mandatory retirement at age 60?

There are more elderly females in Canada than elderly males.

An elderly citizen with a disability who successfully resists the labels that others have for him/her is likely to be using which coping strategy?

When examining how poor some people in Canada are, which statistics would we look at?