RST 230 PAPER LATEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔True Leisure - ✔✔chose to have leisure-- worked hard all day, deserved to take a
nap and go out later
✔✔Marginally Homeless - ✔✔-do not live in the shelters or on the streets
-they rely on friends and family for accommodation
-they are near or at or slightly below the poverty line
-they do not use homeless programs
✔✔Recently Homeless - ✔✔-not homeless more than a year
-many of them live in a shelter, cars, RV (temporary housing)
-consider their situation temporary
✔✔Chronically Homeless - ✔✔-no home for more than a year
-OR had at least 4 episodes of homelessness in the last 3 years plus have a disabling
condition (mental condition)
✔✔Reasons of homelessness - ✔✔medical bills, fired from jobs, divorce, kids kicked
out, saving are gone, gambling, addiction, mental illness, eviction, felony/criminal
records, loosing health facilities, no family supports, veterans
✔✔Distribution of Poverty in US - ✔✔southeast (b/c African Americans live there), along
the mississippi (b/c African Americans), new magnet states (b/c recent immigrants),
along US/Mexico border (b/c Mexican Americans), around four corners (b/c Native
Americans), appalachian mountains (b/c caucasian), Alaska (b/c Native Americans),
counties in North/South Dakota
✔✔benefits of leisure in unemployed - ✔✔-Inclusion
-Keeps them busy
-Reduces severity of mental disease
-Helps substance abuse
, ✔✔characteristics of homelessness - ✔✔- Single men (largest group)
- Families with children (fastest growing)
- Single women
- Runaways
✔✔old-age dependency ratio - ✔✔Population aged 65 years and over divided by
population aged 20-64 multiplied by 100 *22-28*
✔✔sources of income in older adults - ✔✔1). Social security
2). earnings
3). pensions
4). asset income
✔✔functional age - ✔✔ability to carry out activities of daily living, ability to live
independently
✔✔chronological age - ✔✔actual age
✔✔Physical Changes (Age): Sensory System - ✔✔smell, hearing, vision, touch, taste
✔✔Physical Changes: Musculoskeletal System - ✔✔bones, muscles, ligaments,
cartilage, elasticity of connective tissues declines, bones lose calcium-- osteoporosis:
posture will change, women suffer most during menopause, decline in muscle mass and
strength
✔✔Physical Changes: Respiratory System - ✔✔loss of elasticity, hardening and
stiffening of support tissues and airways, decreased amount of air in and out of the
lungs, reserve capacity of lungs declines, lower ability to cope with air pollutants
✔✔Physical Changes: Cardiovascular System - ✔✔heart muscle becomes less elastic,
walls of heart thicken--high blood pressure, arteries become less elastic--
atherosclerosis
✔✔Physical Changes: Nervous System - ✔✔brain: reduction in weight and size, loss of
neuron cells-- longer reaction time
✔✔Crystalized Intelligence - ✔✔based on learning, accumulative knowledge, increases
with age
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔biologically/genetically determined, highest at 20s then goes
down, how sharp/quick you act, mixture of average and higher of parents IQ
SURE A+
✔✔True Leisure - ✔✔chose to have leisure-- worked hard all day, deserved to take a
nap and go out later
✔✔Marginally Homeless - ✔✔-do not live in the shelters or on the streets
-they rely on friends and family for accommodation
-they are near or at or slightly below the poverty line
-they do not use homeless programs
✔✔Recently Homeless - ✔✔-not homeless more than a year
-many of them live in a shelter, cars, RV (temporary housing)
-consider their situation temporary
✔✔Chronically Homeless - ✔✔-no home for more than a year
-OR had at least 4 episodes of homelessness in the last 3 years plus have a disabling
condition (mental condition)
✔✔Reasons of homelessness - ✔✔medical bills, fired from jobs, divorce, kids kicked
out, saving are gone, gambling, addiction, mental illness, eviction, felony/criminal
records, loosing health facilities, no family supports, veterans
✔✔Distribution of Poverty in US - ✔✔southeast (b/c African Americans live there), along
the mississippi (b/c African Americans), new magnet states (b/c recent immigrants),
along US/Mexico border (b/c Mexican Americans), around four corners (b/c Native
Americans), appalachian mountains (b/c caucasian), Alaska (b/c Native Americans),
counties in North/South Dakota
✔✔benefits of leisure in unemployed - ✔✔-Inclusion
-Keeps them busy
-Reduces severity of mental disease
-Helps substance abuse
, ✔✔characteristics of homelessness - ✔✔- Single men (largest group)
- Families with children (fastest growing)
- Single women
- Runaways
✔✔old-age dependency ratio - ✔✔Population aged 65 years and over divided by
population aged 20-64 multiplied by 100 *22-28*
✔✔sources of income in older adults - ✔✔1). Social security
2). earnings
3). pensions
4). asset income
✔✔functional age - ✔✔ability to carry out activities of daily living, ability to live
independently
✔✔chronological age - ✔✔actual age
✔✔Physical Changes (Age): Sensory System - ✔✔smell, hearing, vision, touch, taste
✔✔Physical Changes: Musculoskeletal System - ✔✔bones, muscles, ligaments,
cartilage, elasticity of connective tissues declines, bones lose calcium-- osteoporosis:
posture will change, women suffer most during menopause, decline in muscle mass and
strength
✔✔Physical Changes: Respiratory System - ✔✔loss of elasticity, hardening and
stiffening of support tissues and airways, decreased amount of air in and out of the
lungs, reserve capacity of lungs declines, lower ability to cope with air pollutants
✔✔Physical Changes: Cardiovascular System - ✔✔heart muscle becomes less elastic,
walls of heart thicken--high blood pressure, arteries become less elastic--
atherosclerosis
✔✔Physical Changes: Nervous System - ✔✔brain: reduction in weight and size, loss of
neuron cells-- longer reaction time
✔✔Crystalized Intelligence - ✔✔based on learning, accumulative knowledge, increases
with age
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔biologically/genetically determined, highest at 20s then goes
down, how sharp/quick you act, mixture of average and higher of parents IQ
