Age Sociology

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True

True or false: countries are having more percentages of elderly people

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Upgrades in technologies and medications

Why are there more elderly people in the world?

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Elderly White women

the largest population of older people in the U.S. are

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Health span

sociologists are focused on __, which is how many years a person can live comfortably

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Industrialized

There are a high number of elderly people in ___ countries

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Loneliness

What is one of the biggest complaints from elderly people?

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True

True or false: what is considered “old” varies from culture to culture

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Robert Butler

Who came up with the term ageism?

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Foolishness

In some industrialized countries, being old is associated with ___ instead of wisdom

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True

True or false: the poverty rate for the elderly has gone down