RST 230 EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔benefits of leisure for the unemployed - ✔✔• New hobby
• Making happy
• Establishing contacts
✔✔homelessness rates in the us - ✔✔1%
✔✔reasons for homelessness - ✔✔..a. Alcohol abuse
b. Drug abuse
c. Jobless
d. Bad relationship - fleeing abuse
e. Born into it
f. Home foreclosure
g. Mental instability
h. Returning veterans
✔✔characteristics of homeless people - ✔✔lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-
time residence; and... has a primary night time residency that is: (A) publicly or privately
operated shelter; (B) an institution that provides temporary residence; (C) a public or
private place not designed for a regular sleeping accommodation" (42 U.S.C. §
11302(c) (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2007b)
✔✔stages of homelessness - ✔✔• 1 marginally homeless: close to poverty line, rely on
family (not shelters not street)
• 2 recently homeless: can live in shelters, cars, less than a year
• 3 chronically homeless : no home for more than a year, mental issues substance
abuse
✔✔benefits of leisure for the homeless - ✔✔• Give you something to look forward to
• Alternative to substance abuse
• Belonging
, • Avoid depression
✔✔recreation programs for the homeless - ✔✔• Stage 1 :discount, help with fees,
apparel don't live in shelter
• Stage 2 : in shelters, books, computers, go to mall to walk, sports
• Stage 3 : chronically homeless , in hours therapeutic recreational programs
✔✔Sociodemographic orientation - ✔✔participate because lack of econ sources
• community development initiative: communities should seek additional funding from
gov, private donations, fundraisers, businesses, religious org,
✔✔Marginality orientation: - ✔✔poor people participate in activities because of
discrimination
✔✔Identity orientation: - ✔✔differences in norms and values/preferences
• special populations imitative
✔✔us population of old people - ✔✔• In 2012 13.7% of us population was over 65years
of age.
✔✔• Reasons for the increase in the population of older adults - ✔✔•
Recreation/exercise
• Medical
• Good food
• No smoking
• Baby boomer is getting older and now the birthrate is low
✔✔where are old people in the us - ✔✔a. Arizona, florida, Midwest,
✔✔major source of income of old people - ✔✔a. Biggest source of income: social
security, then earnings, than income
✔✔consequences of aging of the population - ✔✔a. Greater number of people relying
on Medicare, Social Security
b. Greater demands placed on the healthcare system
c. Long term care for the oldest old
d. Rising expectations of the elderly
✔✔feminization of poverty - ✔✔
✔✔dependency ratios - ✔✔30.11%
✔✔functional vs chronological age - ✔✔• Chronological age (actual age) vs. Functional
age (ability to carry out activities of daily living)
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔benefits of leisure for the unemployed - ✔✔• New hobby
• Making happy
• Establishing contacts
✔✔homelessness rates in the us - ✔✔1%
✔✔reasons for homelessness - ✔✔..a. Alcohol abuse
b. Drug abuse
c. Jobless
d. Bad relationship - fleeing abuse
e. Born into it
f. Home foreclosure
g. Mental instability
h. Returning veterans
✔✔characteristics of homeless people - ✔✔lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-
time residence; and... has a primary night time residency that is: (A) publicly or privately
operated shelter; (B) an institution that provides temporary residence; (C) a public or
private place not designed for a regular sleeping accommodation" (42 U.S.C. §
11302(c) (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2007b)
✔✔stages of homelessness - ✔✔• 1 marginally homeless: close to poverty line, rely on
family (not shelters not street)
• 2 recently homeless: can live in shelters, cars, less than a year
• 3 chronically homeless : no home for more than a year, mental issues substance
abuse
✔✔benefits of leisure for the homeless - ✔✔• Give you something to look forward to
• Alternative to substance abuse
• Belonging
, • Avoid depression
✔✔recreation programs for the homeless - ✔✔• Stage 1 :discount, help with fees,
apparel don't live in shelter
• Stage 2 : in shelters, books, computers, go to mall to walk, sports
• Stage 3 : chronically homeless , in hours therapeutic recreational programs
✔✔Sociodemographic orientation - ✔✔participate because lack of econ sources
• community development initiative: communities should seek additional funding from
gov, private donations, fundraisers, businesses, religious org,
✔✔Marginality orientation: - ✔✔poor people participate in activities because of
discrimination
✔✔Identity orientation: - ✔✔differences in norms and values/preferences
• special populations imitative
✔✔us population of old people - ✔✔• In 2012 13.7% of us population was over 65years
of age.
✔✔• Reasons for the increase in the population of older adults - ✔✔•
Recreation/exercise
• Medical
• Good food
• No smoking
• Baby boomer is getting older and now the birthrate is low
✔✔where are old people in the us - ✔✔a. Arizona, florida, Midwest,
✔✔major source of income of old people - ✔✔a. Biggest source of income: social
security, then earnings, than income
✔✔consequences of aging of the population - ✔✔a. Greater number of people relying
on Medicare, Social Security
b. Greater demands placed on the healthcare system
c. Long term care for the oldest old
d. Rising expectations of the elderly
✔✔feminization of poverty - ✔✔
✔✔dependency ratios - ✔✔30.11%
✔✔functional vs chronological age - ✔✔• Chronological age (actual age) vs. Functional
age (ability to carry out activities of daily living)
