Reference no: EM133437663

Questions

1. The public health budget in most states is focused on the health care needs of

a. middle-income employed persons.

b. low-income young mothers and children.

c. older retired adults.

d. minorities.

2. The age at which "old age" begins and individuals become eligible for retirement benefits is

a. legally established by the constitution as a standard for all federal benefits.

b. equivalent in all 50 states for all legal matters within and between states.

c. somewhat arbitrary, with some government and private agencies using different ages.

d. whatever an older adult wants it to be.

3. Culturally competent healthcare delivery to older patients is the focus of

a. ethnogeriatrics.

b. cultural geriatrics.

c. curanderiatrics

d. ethnocentric medicine.

4. As a result of global aging, many countries have an increasingly unfavorable dependency ratio. In the United States this trend is being slowed by

a. higher birthrates.

b. greater life expectancy.

c. immigration.

d. earlier retirement.

5. The main reason Americans are living about 30 years longer than they did a century ago is

a. greater access to medical care.

b. new and advanced medical technologies.

c. application of public health principles.

d. safer environments in which to live and work.

e. better genetics.