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Questions
1. According to Kass, the reasons that are advanced to support physician-assisted death represent which school(s) of medical ethics?
a. The school of general benevolence and compassion
b. The school of autonomy
c. The school of professing the art of healing
d. Both the school of autonomy and the the school of general benevolence and compassion
2. What percentage of elders have been reported to suffer from self-neglect?
a. 9-10%
b. about 18%
c. over 25%
d. less than 5%
3. The major public payer of care in nursing homes is ______.
a. families
b. Social Security
c. Medicare
d. Medicaid
4. Under the ideals of continuum of care, what do support systems strive towards?
a. communal living for seniors
b. promoting maximum independence
c. round-the-clock supervision
d. a sense of stability
5. Which of the following means congruence between the family (or individual) and their environment?
a. complementary fit
b. non-fit
c. structural fit
d. isomorphic fit
6. According to Perry and Butler, what is the solution to high costs of long-term care for the elderly?
a. communal living
b. managed care
c. expansion of Medicare
d. reduction of frailty
8. The death of a spouse shortly after the death of the other spouse is known as:
a. fatal love effect
b. honeymoon effect
c. synchronized death effect
d. The widowhood effect
9. In 1983, Congress responded to the high costs of hospital care under Medicare Part A by introducing ______.
a. Medigap policies
b. the prospective payment system
c. the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
d. the resource-based relative value scale
10. "Assisted suicide" is defined as ______.
a. euthanasia
b. a doctor or family member actively provides the means or carries out the instructions required for an individual to end his or her life
c. a deliberate intervention to end a patient's life
d. not doing something, such as withdrawing life support, that results in death
11. The majority of Medicare dollars go to which of the following?
a. nursing homes
b. home health agencies
c. hospitals
d. physicians
12. Which of the following is not a risk factor for elder abuse?
a. psychopathology, especially alcohol and substance abuse
b. family history of violence
c. family caregiving
d. social isolation
13. Complete cessation of sexual activity is most often a result of which of the following?
a. lack of privacy in living situations.
b. a decline in physical health among one or both partners
c. feelings of an older person about sexuality
d. marital status
14. According to the video on elder abuse, elder protective services are _____ when compared to child protective services.
a. ran by the same people
b. better
c. not needed
d. 4 decades behind
15. According to Heisler and Quinn, which of the following ethical issues are most likely to arise in legal proceedings regarding elder mistreatment?
a. promotion of autonomy
b. duty to family
c. guardianship concerns
d. state interference
16. Why is depression difficult to diagnose?
a. Sufferers may commit suicide before a diagnosis is made.
b. It can manifest itself in a variety of symptoms, which are also normal signs of aging.
c. Most old people are sad.
d. If it wasn't diagnosed earlier in life, doctors do not take it seriously in old age.
17. According to a recent comprehensive review of research on elder abuse, approximately what percentage of older adults is thought to have experienced elder abuse?
a. 50%
b. 10%
c. 3%
d. 25%
18. Which of the following are risk factors for elder abuse?
a. Social isolation
b. Psychopathology, especially alcohol and substance abuse
c. Family history of violence
d. All of these
e. Care giving burdens
19. Which of the following factors is responsible for rising healthcare costs?
a. fraud, waste, and abuse
b. the American Care Act
c. elders' struggle with healthcare web portals
d. difficulty in accessing preventive care
20. Among all people over age 65, about ______ are in nursing homes at any given time.
a. 40%
b. 10%
c. 24%
d. 5%