Match the following concepts with the definitions listed below them. ____ a. sick role ____ b. ageism ____ c. age cohort ____ d. stereotypes ____ e. population pyramids ____ f. health care system ____...

Match the following concepts with the definitions listed below them.

____ a. sick role
____ b. ageism
____ c. age cohort
____ d. stereotypes
____ e. population pyramids
____ f. health care system
____ g. age stratification
____ h. social gerontology
____ i. dependency ratio
____ j. epidemiology
____ k. age structure


1. the professional services, organizations, training
academies, and technological resources committed to the
treatment, management, and prevention of disease
2. a set of beliefs, attitudes, norms, and values used to
justify age-based prejudice and discrimination
3. the unequal distribution of scarce desirables in a society
based on age
4. persons born during the same time period in a particular
population
5. a social definition serving to remove people from active
involvement in everyday routines, give them special protection and privileges, and set the stage for their return to
their normal social roles
6. the distribution of people of different ages within a
society
7. the proportion of persons in the dependent ages relative
to those in the economically active ages
8. graphic representations illustrating the age and sex
distribution of a population
9. the scientific study of the social dimensions of aging
10. ideas based on distortion, exaggeration, and oversimplification that are applied to all members of a social
category
11. the study of disease distribution patterns within a
population