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

True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Older women are more likely to live in poverty than older men.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Hormone replacement therapy protects women against all forms of cancer.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Alzheimer's disease is an incurable form of dementia.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Males born in the year 2000 have a longer life expectancy than females born in the same year.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Most older Americans live in a nursing home at some point in their lives.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Our attitudes toward death are formed in childhood and do not change much as we grow older.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	About one third of Americans die without leaving a will.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Palliative care focuses on relieving pain in a patient not expected to recover.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Increasing a patient's pain medication to the point where in addition to controlling pain, it also hastens death is considered physician-assisted suicide.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Acceptance is the final stage in Kübler-Ross's model of the psychological stages that a dying person experiences.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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