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Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine

The Challenge of Aging

Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Which of the following remains most stable as you age?
		A)	intelligence
		B)	hearing
		C)	eyesight
		D)	flexibility


2	Which of the following statements about aging is true?
		A)	Requirements for vitamins and minerals are significantly lower for people over age 65.
		B)	Glaucoma always leads to blindness.
		C)	The ability to hear high-pitched sounds increases with age.
		D)	Alcohol and drug dependence are common problems among the elderly.


3	The decline in the ability to focus on close objects that occurs in many people beginning in their forties is called:
		A)	cataracts.
		B)	glaucoma.
		C)	presbyopia.
		D)	dendrite.


4	As birth rates drop, the percentage of elderly people will:
		A)	increase.
		B)	decrease.
		C)	stay the same.
		D)	fluctuate.


5	Most older Americans live:
		A)	alone.
		B)	with a relative.
		C)	with a nonrelative.
		D)	in a nursing home.


6	Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of brain death?
		A)	unresponsivity
		B)	incoherence
		C)	flat EEG
		D)	no movements or breathing


7	The testator of a will is the:
		A)	attorney.
		B)	person making the will.
		C)	closest living relative.
		D)	beneficiary of the will.


8	In 1990 in the case of Nancy Beth Cruzan, the Supreme Court ruled that:
		A)	life support can only be removed from a vegetative patient if he or she has completed a living will making such a request.
		B)	the right to refuse unwarranted treatment is constitutionally protected.
		C)	physician-assisted suicide is illegal.
		D)	there is no medical or ethical difference between withholding and withdrawing a treatment.


9	A legal document that allows one person to act as the agent of another in making medical decisions is a:
		A)	living will.
		B)	Uniform Donor Card.
		C)	will.
		D)	durable power of attorney for health care.


10	All of the following are stages in Elisabeth K¨ubler-Ross's stages of dying theory EXCEPT:
		A)	denial and isolation.
		B)	adjusting to a changed environment.
		C)	depression.
		D)	bargaining.

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