Ch.7 Stress And Coping In Later Life Exam Prep 6th Edition - Gangs in Americas Communities 3rd Edition Questions by Kevin R. Bush. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 7: Stress and Coping in Later Life
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Alfonso is 78 years old. According to gerontologists, this means he is in which age category?
A. young-old
B. middle-old
C. oldest-old
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. The field of family gerontology emerged to ______.
A. prepare families to care for their older family members
B. prepare older adults for inevitable changes in later life
C. draw attention to the intersection between aging, family systems, and the life course
D. engage with policymakers to take a serious look at the looming deficits in Social Security benefits
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Aging families and younger families differ in important ways, including ______.
A. the likelihood that aging families will experience coinciding joyful and painful events
B. aging families experience more stress than young families
C. younger families experience more stress than aging families
D. younger families do not focus on the needs of their aging parents
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Aging Family
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. It is important to study demographic trends because ______.
A. if we know that the aging population is decreasing, services can be reduced
B. people are living longer, so society must adjust to the growing needs of younger populations
C. growth in the older population will happen at relatively rapid rates, impacting the family structures, social policy, and service needs of the entire population
D. it will help policymakers understand where older adults live
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. People considered to be young-old are ______ years of age.
A. 40–64
B. 65–74
C. 45–59
D. 60–64
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. People considered to be middle-old are ______ years of age.
A. 40–64
B. 70–74
C. 60–64
D. 75–84
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. People considered to be oldest-old are ______ years of age.
A. over 85
B. 75–84
C. 90–99
D. over 100
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Compared to men, women typically ______.
A. live longer
B. die at a younger age
C. die more suddenly
D. are more likely to be married when they die
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. The main distinction between stress encountered at a young age and stress encountered at an older age is that ______.
A. stress in older populations is limited to financial considerations
B. stress in younger families is related primarily to obesity
C. earlier in life, stressors revolve around expanding social and familial circles
D. stressors in older adults are of less intensity and duration than in younger adults
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Stress in Later Life
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Stress-related growth refers to ______.
A. stress created during developmental transitions
B. positive outcomes that emerge from stress, specifically resilience
C. the expansion of social networks during stressful events
D. age-related stress
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Stress in Later Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. What does dysynchronized retirement refer to?
A. working while retired
B. retiring from a full-time job and beginning a part-time job
C. when married couples retire at different times
D. entering a new career after retiring from the military
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Retirement
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Many older adults require instrumental and emotional support. Examples of emotional support include ______.
A. helping prepare food
B. providing transportation to doctor’s appointments
C. washing and folding the laundry
D. encouraging phone calls from family and friends
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Hard
13. A caregiver provides different types of assistance. One type of assistance is hands-on assistance, called ______ and the other is assistance that expresses affection and encouragement, called ______
A. formal; informal
B. material; nonmaterial
C. biological; psychological
D. instrumental; emotional
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. A multidimensional response to the negative appraisal and perceived stress resulting from taking care of an ill individual is referred to as ______.
A. secondary trauma
B. elder care burnout
C. agism
D. caregiver burden
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Mercedes and Carlos are a Latinx couple who both work. Last month, Carlos’s mother had a mild stroke and Carlos and Mercedes brought her home from the hospital to live with them, even though there was room available at a rehab center. Mercedes quit her part-time job at school to care for Carlos’s mother because both she and her husband saw it as their responsibility. This is an example of a cultural value referred to as ______.
A. machismo
B. familismo
C. adult responsibility
D. caregiver burden
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. Ambiguous loss would occur for the family of an older adult who ______.
A. requires considerable mobility assistance
B. has a dementia-related condition that makes him or her physically present but emotionally or cognitively absent
C. lives with his or her family but has to work longer hours to support his or her needs
D. lives in an assisted care setting and is angry that the family will not support him or her at home
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Elder abuse is primarily, but not exclusively, perpetrated by ______.
A. family members
B. paid caregivers
C. institutional residences
D. community perpetrators
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Elder Abuse
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Emily lives with her grandmother and has taken her checks and signed them over to herself. She has become very frustrated with caring for her grandmother’s intensive physical needs and memory loss and screams at her grandmother every evening when she is particularly restless. These are examples of ______.
A. physical and emotional abuse
B. emotional abuse and financial neglect
C. financial abuse
D. emotional abuse and financial abuse
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Elder Abuse
Difficulty Level: Hard
19. Wanda has noticed that her eyesight is beginning to deteriorate. At the same time, the roads around her home are becoming more congested with traffic. She decides to stop driving and works with her daughter to find free transportation for seniors in her area. Her neighbor also told her about special busses for disabled adults that stop right in front of your door. She is ecstatic about the options but a little afraid to explore them by herself. This is an example of ______ focused coping.
A. problem-
B. emotion-
C. instrumental-
D. social-
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Models of Coping and Adaptation
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. Violet, who is 87 years old and very frail, needs increased home care, but she has denied this need to her concerned children. She continues to tell them that she can handle each situation on her own and says that living alone is not dangerous (although she has fallen numerous times and in fact broke her pelvis). She explains that she is an “independent” woman who does not need any help. This is an example of ______ focused coping.
A. problem-
B. emotion-
C. instrumental-
D. social-
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Models of Coping and Adaptation
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. What is the primary component of positive reappraisal?
A. developing resilience
B. coping with change
C. viewing the situation differently
D. changing routines and networks
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Models of Coping and Adaptation
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Existing ______ are vital to examine when seeking to understand elder abuse, as are the intersections of personal identities.
A. stress responses
B. family dynamics
C. geographies
D. work habits
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Elder Abuse
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. In ______ families, children are raised solely by their grandparents, rather than by their parents.
A. unhealthy
B. forgotten generation
C. skipped generation
D. foster
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Skipped Generation Families
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. A diversity of circumstances can lead to the formation of ______. Major factors include addiction, incarceration, migration, deportation, and mental health issues.
A. skipped-generation families
B. multigenerational families
C. blended families
D. low-income families
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Skipped Generation Families
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. ______ individuals who are estranged or distant from their families may experience substantial difficulties in accessing chronic health care needs.
A. Childless
B. Irreligious
C. LGBTQ
D. Rural
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. “LLATs” refers to living apart together later in life.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Aging Family
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The racial/ethnic mix of older adults is expected to remain relatively stable between now and 2050.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Demographic Trends
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Ecological systems theory is a helpful lens through which to view family aging because it considers the impact of multiple levels of peoples’ ecology on their functioning.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Stress in Later Life
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Elder abuse is experienced by two third of the older adult population in the United States.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Elder Abuse
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Subscribing strongly to familism may put older adults at greater risk of abuse.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Elder Abuse
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Skipped-generation families refer to families in which children are being raised solely by their grandparents rather than their parents.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Skipped Generation Families
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Affirmation is the form of social support characterized by emotional support, provided through expressions of care and concern for an aging family member.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Models of Coping and Adaptation
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Aid, affect, and affirmation are the behaviors that make up social support.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Models of Coping and Adaptation
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The term caregiver burden describes the fact that caregivers often face extensive demands on their time and difficulties that test their physical and mental endurance.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Caregiver and care providers are interchangeable terms.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Define what is meant by the aging family. What issues do they face? What are some differences between aging families and younger families?
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Aging Family
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Discuss the positive and negative experiences older adults face in their retirement. Give examples of each. How do you think these experiences compare with what you will experience as an older adult?
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Retirement
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. People are living longer and with that, caregiving responsibilities fall on family members. Discuss issues, including “caregiver burden,” associated with providing care for older family members.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Caregiving
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Using both definitions and examples, distinguish between various forms of elderly abuse.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Elder Abuse
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Outline the causes of “skipped-generation” families.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Skipped Generation Families
Difficulty Level: Medium
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