AND ANSWERS
According to the Federal Interagency Forum, older Americans are living longer and are less prosperous.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False
The ''aging tsunami" refers to the rapid aging of which segment of the population?
A. Baby boomers
B. Generation X
C. Generation Y
D. Millennials - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Baby boomers
The Four Pillars of Retirement Income include all of the following except;
A. Social Security income
B. Retirement income from employee- sponsored plans
C. disability income
D. private savings - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Disability income
The term "encore careers" refers to the phenomenon of older workers from one industry pursuing jobs
in fields such as education, healthcare, and not-for- profit management.
True or False - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Due to financial constraints, employer- sponsored pension plans have evolved from being primarily
defined benefit pensions (to which employees do not have to contribute their own monies) to :
A. federal government pensions
B. defined contribution pensions
C. consumer- driven pensions
, D. none of the above; employees have eliminated private pension plans - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅defined contribution pensions
All of the following are contained in long-term care except
a. health services
b. supportive services
c. donations from benefactors
d. informal assistance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅donations from benefactors
Long term care services are provided on the basis of what limitations?
a. financial resources
b. eligibility for government insurance programs
c. veteran status
d. Activities of Daily Living - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Activities of Daily Living
An important concept in the aging process is that
a. most individuals lose their vision as they get older
b. biological and chronological ages are not the same
c. individuals older than 85 are forced to stop driving in the USA
d. individuals become less susceptible to infection as they get older - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅biological
and chronological ages are not the same
The continium of long term care services is problematic in addressing issues of
a. social security solvency
b. residential care facilities' regulation
c. chronic illness
d. transportation for older adults - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅chronic illness
Caregiving for individuals with long- term care need is a complex process due to