Living Arrangements of Older Adults

Question 1

Age-Friendly City

Answer 1

A city that optimizes opportunities for health,
participation, and security to enhance quality
of life as people age.

Question 2

Age-Friendly Community

Answer 2

A community where the policies, services,
and structures related to the physical and
social environment are designed to help
older adults age actively. In other words,
the community is set up to help older
adults live safely, enjoy good health, and
stay involved.

Question 3

Age-Friendly World

Answer 3

A place that enables people of all ages
to actively participate in community
activities; that treats everyone with respect,
regardless of their age; that makes it easy
to stay connected to those around you
and those you love; that helps people stay
healthy and active even at the oldest ages;
and that helps those who can no longer
look after themselves to live with dignity
and enjoyment.

Question 4

Alternative Transportation for Seniors

Answer 4

Transportation provided to adults 65 years of
age and older outside of the public transportation
system.

Question 5

Autonomy

Answer 5

The ability of individuals to make their
own decisions without being controlled by
anyone else.

Question 6

Chronic-Care and Long-Term-Care

Hospitals

Answer 6

Establishments that provide continuous
medical, nursing, and professional healthcare
supervision for long-term patients who are dependent in all activities of daily
living and are unable to perform most or all
personal-care tasks.

Question 7

Collateral

Answer 7

A property or other assets that a borrower
offers a lender to secure a loan. If the
borrower stops making the promised loan
payment(s), the lender can seize the collateral
to recoup its losses.

Question 8

Collective Dwelling

Answer 8

A dwelling used for commercial, institutional,

or communal purposes.

Question 9

Compensation

Answer 9

One of the three processes in Baltes
and Baltes' Model of Successful Aging
to help individuals manage their lives;
for example, older adults can maintain
a given level of functioning in the
face of loss and decline by investing in
compensatory means such as hiring a
housekeeper to provide assistance with
heavier housecleaning.

Question 10

Competence-Environmental Press

Answer 10

Model of stress and adaption where adaptive
functions depend on the interaction between
external demands and an individual’s competence
to meet demands.

Question 11

Continuing-Care Facilities

Answer 11

Hospitals with continuing-care beds, commonly
known as extended, auxiliary, chronic,
or complex-care beds, as well as residential
care facilities, commonly known as nursing
homes, personal-care homes, or long-termcare
facilities.

Question 12

Downsizing

Answer 12

Moving from current dwelling to another
dwellin g, with a decrease in the number
of rooms, size of dwelling, and/ or value of
dwelling.

Question 13

Ecological Model of Aging

Answer 13

A model of aging that stresses the importance
of the balance between environmental
demands and the individual’s capabilities.

Question 14

Environmental Gerontology

Answer 14

A field of gerontology that seeks to describe
and explain the relationship between older
people and their socio-spatial surroundin gs.

Question 15

Equity

Answer 15

The value of a piece of property (such as a
house) after any debts (e.g., the remaining
mortgage, if any) have been subtracted.

Question 16

Freehold

Answer 16

Where the property is owned for an unlim ited

period.

Question 17

Gerontechnology

Answer 17

An interdisciplinary field that links
existing and developing technologies to
the aspirations and needs of aging and
aged adults.

Question 18

Green-Care Farm

Answer 18

A new model of care for older adults that
combines agricultural activities with care services.
These farms enable older adults to live
independently and to participate in society
for as long as possible.

Question 19

Home-Equity Loan

Answer 19

A loan that is a single lump sum payment

based on the equity in your home.

Question 20

Household

Answer 20

A person or group of persons who occupy the
same dwelling and who do not have a usual
place of residence elsewhere in Canada.

Question 21

Household Wealth

Answer 21

The total value of real estate holdings and
other non-housing sources of financial wealth
such as savings accumulated in investment
funds and retirement savings plans, minus
outstanding debt.

Question 22

Liquidated

Answer 22

The process of selling a property, business, or

other assets, par ticularly to pay off a debt.

Question 23

Long-Term-Care Facility

Answer 23

A facility that provides a range of healthcare
services, from periodic assistance to regular
nursing care, for elderly residents.

Question 24

Nursing Homes

Answer 24

A type oflong-term-care accommodation
that provides housin g, support, and direct
care to frail seniors who are unable to
function in dependently.

Question 25

Optimization

Answer 25

One of the three processes in Baltes
and Baltes' Model of Successful Aging to
help individuals manage their lives; for
example, older adults can acquire new
skills to help manage their limitations due
to aging.

Question 26

Person-Centred-Care Approach

Answer 26

An approach that aims to see the person as
an individual, rather than focusing on the
person’s illness or on abilities that he
or she may have lost.

Question 27

Private Dwelling

Answer 27

A separate set of living quarters with a private
entrance either from outside the building
or from a common hall, lobby, vestibule, or
stairway inside the building.

Question 28

Refinancing an Existing Mortgage

Answer 28

Renegotiating the terms of one’s mortgage to
lower monthly payments and free up some
cash.

Question 29

Residences for Senior Citizens

Answer 29

Residences that provide support services
(such as meals, housekeeping, medication
supervision, and assistance in bathing) and
supervision for residents 65 years of age and
older who are independent in most activities
of daily living.

Question 30

Residential Care

Answer 30

Residential care facilities can include lodges,
assisted living, supportive housing, and longterm
-care homes. Other terms across Canada
are nursing and personal-care homes.

Question 31

Reverse Mortgages

Answer 31

A mortgage where the lender advances a
lump sum to the borrower or provides a set
amount of money each month.

Question 32

Selection

Answer 32

One of the three processes in Baltes and
Baltes’ Model of Successful Aging that refers
to an individual focusing attention on fewer, more important goals; for example,
some older adults may choose to downsize
to a smaller house to help manage their
physical limitations.

Question 33

Smart Environments

Answer 33

A residence equipped with technology that
allows monitoring of its inhabitants and/or
encourages independence and the maintenance
of good health.

Question 34

Social Environment

Answer 34

The immediate physical surroundings, social
relationships, and sociocultural context or
milieu in which people live and interact.

Question 35

Supportive Housing

Answer 35

A type of housing that helps individuals in
their daily living through the provision of
a physical environment that is safe, secure,
enabling, and home-like. Assisted living is a
type of supportive housing.