1. NAME THE TWO COUNTRIES WHICH ARE
CURRENTLY AGING THE FASTEST: __________;___________
2. TRUE or FALSE: ACCORDING TO THE 2000 CENSUS, THE
U.S. HAD AT LEAST 35,000 PEOPLE 100 YEARS OR OLDER....AND ABOUT 85% ARE
WOMEN.
3. TRUE or FALSE: IN MOST
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES A MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO REACH AGE 75 ARE MEN.
4. TRUE or FALSE: THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO VERIFIED
POPULATIONS IN THE WORLD WITH HYPERLONGEVITY WHERE at least 5% OF THE POPULATION
ARE OVER 100.
5. WHAT IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD (PERHAPS IN HISTORY) WHERE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE OVER 60 THAN UNDER
20?
6. TRUE or FALSE: OVER THE LAST 5,000 YEARS THE POTENTIAL
LIFESPAN OF HUMANS HAS INCREASED BY AT LEAST 40 YEARS.
7. TRUE or FALSE: BECAUSE
OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN RESPECT FOR THE AGED, SUICIDE FOR FEMALES OVER AGE 65
GOES UP IN THE U.S., BUT IN JAPAN IT GOES DOWN.
8. TRUE or FALSE: THE
MAJORITY OF THE WORLD'S AGED POPULATION, OVER 65 YEARS OF AGE, LIVE IN THE
INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, JAPAN AND THE SOVIET UNION.
9. TRUE or FALSE: IN
ABOUT 10% OF THE SMALL-SCALE TRIBAL SOCIETIES STUDIED BY ANTHROPOLOGISTS,
CULTURAL MECHANISMS OF SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION PREVENT THE AGED FROM EVER
DEVELOPING ANY FORM OF DEMENTIA.
10. TRUE or FALSE: THE
KILLING OF OLD PEOPLE BY OTHERS IN THEIR COMMUNITY IS ALMOST ALWAYS PERCEIVED AS
A GENERAL INDICATION OF LOW REGARD FOR THE AGED IN THAT SOCIETY.
11. TRUE or FALSE: IN THE
U.S., 16% OF THE POPULATION WAS OVER 65 BY THE YEAR 1998.
12. TRUE or FALSE: OF
THIS OLDER POPULATION, ABOUT 10% CURRENTLY LIVE IN LONG TERM INSTITUTIONS (E.G.
IN NURSING HOMES) AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
13. TRUE or FALSE: TWO
REASONS JAPAN STILL HAS SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THEIR ELDERLY ARE BECAUSE LIFE
EXPECTANCY IS STILL COMPARATIVELY LOW AND THE PERCENT OF THE ELDERLY IN THE
POPULATION IS INCREASING MUCH SLOWER THAN IN OTHER INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES.
14. THE MOST "AGED" NATION (HIGHEST
% OVER AGE 65) IS_______________?
15. THE SOCIETY WITH THE HIGHEST LONGEVITY
IS __________?
16. TRUE or FALSE:
UNIVERSALLY, IN NON-WESTERN TRIBAL SOCIETIES, THE AGED ARE TREATED WITH MORE
RESPECT THAN IN THE U.S.
17. TRUE or FALSE: HUMANS
ARE THE PRIMATE SPECIES WITH THE LONGEST SPAN OF ADULTHOOD.
18. TRUE or FALSE: IN
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES, BETWEEN NOW AND THE YEAR 2020 THE POPULATIONS OVER AGE 60
WILL GROW TWICE AS FAST AS THE PART OF THE POPULATION BETWEEN 5 AND 15.
19. TRUE or FALSE: THE AVERAGE MARRIED COUPLE, IN
THE U.S,. NOW HAS MORE PARENTS ALIVE THAN CHILDREN IN THEIR FAMILY.
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