Study Questions for Key Issues in Aging
1. Changes which occur with aging fall into the following categories:
a. Physical
b. Psychological
c. Social
d. All of the above
2. All of the following are normal aging changes in vision except:
a. The need for adjustment in lighting in the environment.
b. Decreased depth perception
c. “Floaters”
d. Macular degeneration
3. Which of the following is not considered a balance disorder:
a. Meniere’s disease
b. Diabetic retinopathy
c. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
d. Labyrinthitis
4. Which of the following statements is valid regarding the aging process?
a. Many changes that occur in aging are gradual.
b. In early and middle stages of life body organs have an ability to adjust and maintain
health.
c. Most organs seem to lose function at about one percent per year beginning around age
30.
d. All of the above.
5. Losses/changes in the senses are significant, they can affect a person in several ways:
a. Communication and interaction with others
b. Mobility and independence
c. Perception of and response to the environment
d. All of the above
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Answers on the next page.
1.
Changes which occur with aging fall into the following categories:
Answer: D – As changes begin to happen in one area of a person’s life, most likely the other two
areas will be affected as well.
2.
All of the following are normal aging changes in vision except:
Answer: D – Macular degeneration is a condition which is not normal aging and requires medical
evaluation and treatment.
3.
Which of the following is not considered a balance disorder:
Answer: B – Diabetic retinopathy is a disorder affecting vision.
4.
Which of the following statements is valid regarding the aging process?
Answer: D – all of the statements are valid.
5.
Losses/changes in the senses are significant, they can affect a person in several ways:
Answer: D – all of the above