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True-False questions



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Question 1.
Although there is discrimination against many different age groups, there are more stereotypes about the physical and mental abilities of older people.

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Question 2.
Prior to the twentieth century, the concept of adolescence did not exist.

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Question 3.
Because of child labor laws and the intervention of government control, adolescents in the United States no longer work in dangerous and hazardous conditions.

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Question 4.
Today, the United States has the highest life expectancy of any industrialized nation at 87 years.


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Question 5.
Sociologists use the age pyramid to show the distribution of a given population by age and sex groupings at various points in time.


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Question 6.
Gerontologists have discovered the needs of the "old" are relatively similar as soon as someone enters the young-old category.

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Question 7.
An organization that provides a homelike facility or home-based care for people who are terminally ill is called an assisted living facility.


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Question 8.
The institutionalized separation of an individual from his or her occupational position with a continuation of an income from a pension based on prior years of service is called retirement.

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Question 9.
People over 65 years of age account for more than half of all dollars spent on health care in the U.S.

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Question 10.
Dependency ratio is the number of workers necessary to support people under age 15 and over age 63.


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