Aging Crossword Puzzle

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