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Question 1
1 Currently, 10 percent of older adults live in developing countries.
   
 
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Question 2
2 About 52% of all persons 65 and older lived in nine states in 2000.
   
 
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Question 3
3 The maximum life-span has increased significantly since 1900.
   
 
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Question 4
4 By 2025, seventy percent of older adults are expected to live in developing countries.
   
 
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Question 5
5 Trends in the health status of middle-aged people today provide only moderate support for compressed morbidity in the future.
   
 
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Question 6
6 Baby Boomers are expected to survive to age 100 at rates never before achieved.
   
 
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Question 7
7 The "pig in a python: phenomenon has made the U. S. population pyramid look more like an inverted pyramid.
   
 
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Question 8
8 The expansion of research in social gerontology is related to the growth of the older population and the emergence of retirement policies.
   
 
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Question 9
9 The problem with trying to reach ethnic minority elders from the membership list of the AARP is that they are under-represented in this group.
   
 
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Question 10
10 Selective dropout from longitudinal studies results in a population of healthier and more motivated elders in the final sample.
   
 
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