AHS Extra Credit

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Across
  1. 2. a person born in the years following World War II, when there was a temporary marked increase in the birth rate
  2. 4. study of aging from a medical perspective
  3. 6. Ability of a person to deal with the issues of life in an effective way
  4. 8. people try to maximize their rewards and minimize their costs in interaction with others because elderly have fewer resources to bring to an exchange relationship
  5. 13. people 85 or older
  6. 14. studying aging process in terms of biological, behavioral and social phenomena that accompany it
  7. 16. assumes elderly lost status during shift to bureaucratic organizations- emphasis on up to date education for work, modernization has caused the status of the aged to decline
  8. 17. unless constrained by poor health or disability, older people have same psychological and social needs that middle aged people do
  9. 20. normal aging involves a continuity in personality structure and in patterns of social interaction
  10. 21. a federal program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and older and for certain disabled persons under 65
  11. 22. a federal and state program that pays for health care expenses for people who fall below the poverty line
Down
  1. 1. A basic level of financial security, support for opportunities to achieve a satisfying lifestyle in a community of choice
  2. 3. death
  3. 5. the progressive deterioration of body systems that can increase the risk of mortality as the the individual gets older
  4. 7. common form of dementia among older people
  5. 9. rituals that mark major life events, thereby reinforcing social norms about age grading
  6. 10. people aged 65-74
  7. 11. Normal aging involves natural and inevitable mutual withdrawal/disengagement from society
  8. 12. the average number of years that people in a particular cohort are expected to live
  9. 15. critical changes that occur at all stages of life, such as becoming a retiree
  10. 18. people aged 75-84
  11. 19. illness and disease