The Lived Environment: Community, Housing, and Place

Question 1

gentrification can influence

Answer 1

an increase in heterogeneity and a sense of community may be lost

Question 2

What is a significant fact related to crimes against older people?

Answer 2

Almost all crimes against older people aren’t reported for fear of being perceived as incompetent

Question 3

assisted living is what type of housing?

Answer 3

independent/supportive housing

Question 4

The study of the behavioral, social, and psychological implications of encounters between older adults and their environment

Answer 4

environmental gerontology

Question 5

What is environmental gerontology?

Answer 5

The study of the behavioral, social, and psychological implications of encounters between older adults and their environment

Question 6

How does the WHO define an “age-friendly” environment?

Answer 6

structures in place that encourage active aging

Question 7

A geographical space defined by political or natural geographical boundaries

Answer 7

Community

Question 8

Meaningful and persistent social relationships in which members engage in mutual trust and co-operation

Answer 8

Social capital

Question 9

What is social capital

Answer 9

mutual and continued social relationships in which members engage in mutual trust and co-operation

Question 10

What is an age-integrated community?

Answer 10

A community where people of multiple ages work and live together

Question 11

What is an age-segregated community?

Answer 11

People of similar ages reside

Question 12

How many residents in a small population centre?

Answer 12

100-29,000 residents

Question 13

How many residents are in a medium population centre?

Answer 13

between 30,000 99,000

Question 14

How many residents are in a large population centre?

Answer 14

100,000 or more

Question 15

What is the ecological model of adaptation and aging?

Answer 15

Adaptation involves the interaction of individual competence and environmental press

Question 16

A model based on the premise that adaptation involves the interaction of individual competence and environmental press

Answer 16

Ecological model of adaptation and aging

Question 17

The less competent an individual the more __________________ influences adaptation and quality of life

Answer 17

the environment

Question 18

What is a major criticism of the ecological model?

Answer 18

It assumes people are passive and do not try to meet their needs or preferences through the use of environmental resources, or agency.

Question 19

Environmental proactivity is when

Answer 19

older people actively adapt to or change their physical or social environment before the environment creates pressure for change

Question 20

The multi-level P-E model of aging involves an individual’s subjective perception of the relative importance of which three environmental domains?

Answer 20

structural resources (housing)

social support (friends+family)

service support (health services)

Question 21

An integrated framework of aging combines:

Answer 21

agency

Belonging

P-E resources with life-course changes and experiences to explain developmental outcomes (Person-Enviroment)

Aging well

Question 22

What are the 5 environmental challenges facing older people?

Answer 22

1. The risk of falls
2. Loss of private transportation
3. Crimes against older adults
4. Technology as a means of helping older people live in a safe and familiar environment
5. Homelessness

Question 23

Men or women are more likely to fall?

Answer 23

Women

Question 24

What are the three types of risk factors related to falls and injuries?

Answer 24

1. Personal
2. Home
3. Community

Question 25

Living alone is considerably more common for _____ aged 65+

Answer 25

women

Question 26

More ____ tend to be in a partnered relationship 65+

Answer 26

Men

Question 27

Who is more institutionalized? Men or Women.

Answer 27

Women

Question 28

A form of housing that combines shelter with a variety of services

Answer 28

independent or supportive living

Question 29

What are the 4 tenets of principlism?

Answer 29

Autonomy, justice, dignity, privacy

Question 30

What are the two types of international migrants?

Answer 30

“Assistance migration” motivated by the onset of negative life circumstances

“amenity migration” by healthy, independent older persons motivated by a wish to live in a better climate or in a place where cost of living is lower

Question 31

What is amenity migration?

Answer 31

Migration by healthy, independent older persons motivated by a wish to live in a better climate or in a place where cost of living is lower

Question 32

What is assistance migration?

Answer 32

Migration motivated by the onset of negative life circumstances

Question 33

Older adults prefer to age

Answer 33

in place

Question 34

What are the three choices of where to live for older people who can live independently?

Answer 34

Remain in family home (age in place)

Move to another unit in the same community

Migrate to another community

Question 35

What are 3 types of families

Answer 35

Kinship or fictive kin

Census family

Economic family

Question 36

A married couple with or without children, a couple living common law with or without children, a lone parent with at least one child living in the same dwelling. A couple living common law may be of the opposite or same sex. Grandchildren living with grandparents but with no parent present

Answer 36

Census family

Question 37

a group of two or more people who are related to each other by blood, marriage, common law or adoption and who live in the same dwelling

Answer 37

Economic family