Chapter 20: Adulthood

Question 1

The Universal and irreversible physical changes that occur to all living creatures as they grow older

Answer 1

PRIMARY AGING

Question 2

The specific physical illnesses or conditions that become more common with aging but are caused by health habits, genes and other influences that vary from person to person

Answer 2

SECONDARY AGING

Question 3

what are the four distinct measures of health?

Answer 3

mortality, morbidity, disability and vitality.

Question 4

Death. A measure of health, _______ usually refers to the number of deaths each year per 1,000 members of a given population

Answer 4

MORTALITY

Question 5

Disease. As a measure of health, _______ refers to the rate of diseases of all kinds in a given populations-physical and emotional, acute and chronic.

Answer 5

MORBIDITY

Question 6

Long-term difficulties in performing normal activities of daily life because of some physical, mental or emotional condition.

Answer 6

DISABILITY

Question 7

A measure of health that refers to how health and energetic- physically, intellectually and socially- an individual actually feels.

Answer 7

VITALITY

Question 8

A way of comparing mere survival without vitality to survival with good health. ____ indicate how many years of full vitality are lost to a particular physical disease or disability. They are expressed in terms of life expectancy as adjusted for quality of life.

Answer 8

QALYS (quality adjusted life years)

Question 9

A measure of the impact that ______ has on quality of life. ____ are the reciprocal of QALYS. A reduction of ____ means an increase in _____

Answer 9

DALYS- disability-adjusted life years.