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41 Cards in this Set
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Include such things as eating, dressing, walking, bathing, etc...
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Activities of daily living (ADLs)
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Condition that is expected to be of limited duration and may be as mild as an ingrown fingernail or as serious as pneumonia.
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Acute health condition
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The ratio of the number of older people in the population to the population in the age categories most closely associated with employment.
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Aged dependency ratio
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Individuals born during the period of very high birthrates that occurred in the United States between 1946 and 1964.
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Baby boom generation
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Individuals of 100 years of age and older.
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Centenarian
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A long-term health problem that can leave residual disabilities that may require special interventions such as physical therapy.
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Chronic health condition
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Analysis that compares groups of people who were born during the same time period as they move through the life cycle.
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Cohort analysis
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Phenomena related to how the death rates of elderly African Americans in old age fall below those of whites in the same age group.
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Crossover phenomena
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Deaths due to only one disease that is often reported on the basis of 100,000 people.
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Disease-specific mortality rate
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Individuals 95 years of age and older.
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Elite old
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Individuals 85 years of age and older who are at risk because of poor physical or mental health.
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Frail old
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Refers to the size of the older population compared with that of other age categories.
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Geographic concentration
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Refers to how a demographic is dispersed through an area.
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Geographic distribution
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The amount of money or in-kind goods that a person receives during a specific period of time.
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Income
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Number of people who are employed & also those who are looking for work at a given time.
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Labor force
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The percentage of the population in each age category who are in the labor force.
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Labor force participation rate
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The average number of years that an age category is expected to live given the base year mortality rates.
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Life expectancy
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Shows the average length of life a cohort is expected to live given the mortality rates in the year of birth.
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Life expectancy at birth
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Individuals 75 to 84 years of age.
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Middle-old
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Calculations made by dividing the number of deaths occurring in the population during a stated period of time, usually a year, by the number of people at risk of dying during the period.
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Mortality rates
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Means that an older person is a member of several disadvantaged groups, which increases the person’s probability of having poor health or a poor income
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Multiple jeopardy
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Individuals 85 years of age and older.
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Old-old
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Measure that shows population ranges not only among states but also among different age and ethnic groups within the older population.
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Percentage of older people
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Graph that shows the proportion of each age and sex group in the population.
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Population pyramid
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Calculation based on an estimate of the cost of items in the U.S.
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Poverty level
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Individuals 55 to 64 years of age.
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Pre-elderly
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The number of males per 100 females.
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Sex ratio
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Deaths from all causes, usually expressed as deaths per 1,000.
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Total crude mortality rate
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The total “dependent” population (both youth and aged) compared to the working-age population.
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Total dependency ratio
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Department of Agriculture’s least costly, nutritionally adequate food plan
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Poverty level
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Individuals 65 to 74 years of age
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Young-old
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The ratio of the number of youth under the age of 15 to the total number of employable people aged 15 to 64.
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Youth dependency ratio
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Define Centenarian
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Individuals 100 years of age & older
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Define Elite old
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People 95 yrs. of age & older
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Define Frail old
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People 85 yrs. of age & older who're @ risk b/c of poor physical/mental health
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Define Middle-old
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People 75 - 84 yrs. of age
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Define Old-old
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People 85 yrs. of age & older
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Define Pre-elderly
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People 55 - 64 yrs. of age
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Define Sex ratio
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The # of males per 100 females
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Define Young-old
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People 65 - 74 yrs. of age
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Define Youth dependency ratio
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The ratio of the # of youth under age 15 to the total # of employable people aged 15 - 64
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