Aging Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. the transition out of social roles, such as widowhood and retirement
- 2. private health insurance polices that older people may purchase to supplement their Medicare coverage
- 3. boomers make up what proportion of the US?
- 4. as people get older, participation in leisure activities
- 6. the major public payer of care in nursing homes
- 7. federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older
- 9. all ages were impacted by the expansion and availability of the Internet in the 1990s
- 10. most appropriate method when looking at aging from a life course perspective
- 14. mutual withdrawal from the elderly and society
- 18. a person born in the years following World War II
- 19. continuous deterioration and decline
Down
- 1. According to Hayflick, when does aging occur?
- 2. status of elderly declines as the level of technology progresses
- 5. intelligence applied to new tasks or the ability to come up with creative solutions
- 8. vital involvement in old age
- 11. the ability to live forever
- 12. the process of growing old
- 13. people maintain habits, personality, and lifestyle that they developed in younger years
- 15. any federal government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income
- 16. growing market for business compromised by those over the age of 50
- 17. time process that involves functional loss and susceptibility to disease and death