chapter 12
Terms
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- triple jeopardy
- people who are multiple disadvantages in society. ex: old, female, and minority.
- old age insurance
- a cash assistance entitlement program for seniors.
- informal care
- care for the elderly that is unpaid, usually done by someone close to the elder.
- activities of daily living (ADL)
- a common set of measures that gerontologists use to track elders' degree or impairment, such as bathing, dressing, eating, getting into and out of bed, walking indoors, and using the toilet.
- sandwich generation
- adult children, usually daughters, who are caring for their parents and their own children.
- regressive tax
- lower-income persons pay a higher tax rate than do higher-income persons.
- centenarians
- persons age 100 and over
- medicare
- a federal health insureance program primarily for people age 65 and older.
- formal care
- care for the elderly that is provided by social service agencies on a paid or volunteer basis.
- social security act
- many programs under one umbrella, including unemployment compensation, health programs, cash welfare assistance, food stamps, and school lunch programs, and cash assistance for the blind, survivors and for seniors.
- english poor laws of 1601
- the first systematic codification of english ideas about the responibility of the state to provide for its citizens.
- kinkeeper
- the person who has the primary responsibility for maintaining family relationships.
- old age and survivor insurance (OASI)
- a cash assistance entitlement program for seniors that has also been extended to their widows.
- gerontology
- an interdisciplinary science of aging that draws upon biology, medicine, and the social sciences, including sociology, psychology, and family studies.
- demographic transition
- the process in which a society moves from a situation of high fertility rates and high life expectancy.
- medicaid
- a federal mandated health care financing program for the financially indigent who meet certain qualifications.
- instumental activities of daily living (IADL)
- includes activities such as preparing meals, shopping, managing money, using the telephone, doing housework and taking medications.
- baby-boom generation
- persons born after WW II
- life expectancy
- how long a person can expect to live, usually calculated from birth.