Exam 12: Aging Families

Maxine is doing research on the elderly, and she is interested in discovering the ways that the elderly either continue the roles and activities they have developed over their lives or substitute new ones, because she assumes that older people are happiest when they stay involved. What theory guides her research?

One of the more popular perspectives on death and dying is based on the work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. List the stages of grief.

A regressive tax is defined as ________.

After centuries of having a high fertility rate and low life expectancy, China has changed. Over the last few decades China has achieved very low fertility rates, and life expectancy has increased significantly. This is referred to as the:

List three (3)ways that federal law treats same-sex couples differently from heterosexual married couples.

With respect to marital satisfaction among the elderly, cross-sectional studies generally suggest __________, whereas studies over time generally suggest __________.

Most countries will see a ________ in both the sheer number of oldest-old, and their proportion of the elderly overall.

The growth in the elderly population is so phenomenal that many government agencies are expanding their age categories to include "100 and over," called ________.

By age 65, most adults have retired, although more of them were working in 2009 compared to 2000 because of the recession.

The "oldest-old" cohort usually refers to people who are age

Write an essay about the economics of aging. Be sure to include the sources of income for the elderly, and describe the Social Security program and the history of its creation.

The largest component of the elderly's income comes from what source?

The most common type of relationship that grandparents have with their grandchild is "involved."

Aging parents receive more help from their adult children than they give to them.

The reason the world's population is aging so quickly is that people are living longer and fewer babies are being born.

Describe the changing demographics around the world with respect to aging. Be sure to make comparisons between developing and developed countries, and explain the reasons for the rapid growth.

The majority of long-term care is informal care, most often by a spouse if one is available, or a daughter or daughter-in-law if a spouse is not available.

Grandmothers are more likely than grandfathers to have responsibility for maintaining family relationships, and are referred to as the _________ in the family.

For significant numbers of elderly to be able to withdraw from the labor force, four (4)conditions must exist in society, according to your text. Which is NOT one of those conditions?

Minority grandparents, especially grandmothers, are often quite involved in their grandchildren's lives and have important and influential roles in childrearing, often mimicking parent-like behavior. In other words, they may be more likely to have a/an _________ relationship with their grandchildren.