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Which of the following statements is an example of selective mortality?
 
  a) Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
  b) Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
  c) Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well than younger adults on measures of fluid intelligence.
  d) In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.

Question 2

Results from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) indicated that acute, sudden onset of dementia:
 
  a) Is associated with greater chance of institutionalizatio n
  b) Is associated with decreased vascular risk
  c) Occurs in about half of all dementia cases
  d) Is associated with reduced survival rates



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

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