Check Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

20 .
Describe the role of telomeres in cellular clock theory.
21 .
What is thought to be responsible for decreasing white matter volume in the brain during aging? Is this change related to any changes in cognition?
22 .
How does the United States compare to similarly affluent countries in its health-care costs and life expectancy?
23 .
What is Medicare and what purpose does it serve? Are there any gaps in Medicare coverage?
24 .
Describe whether and how implicit memories, such as knowing how to ride a bicycle, change in later life.
25 .
Does wisdom increase with age? Why or why not?
26 .
Compare and contrast an ischemic stroke and a hemorrhagic stroke.
27 .
Why does dementia often go undiagnosed for some period of time?
28 .
What does compression of morbidity mean?
29 .
How is hearing loss connected to dementia?