A Nurse Is Teaching a Class About Caring for the Aging

question 10

Multiple Choice

A nurse is teaching a class about caring for the aging population and the increase in lifespan. Which of the following statements is correct?

• A)Super centenarians are people who have lived to be over 100 years old.
• B)Lifespan reflects the shift in the distribution of a country's population towards older ages.
• C)Aging is a product of both chronological age and biological age.
• D)Globally, chronological age is an accurate marker of aging.

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Definitions:

Poisson Probability

A distribution used to predict the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, given a constant mean rate of occurrence.

Defects

Imperfections or faults in a product or process that deviate from desired performance or specification.

Normal Distribution

This denotes a probability distribution with symmetry at the mean, proving that nearer-to-mean data points occur more regularly than those farther away.

Mean

The mean of a collection of numbers, found by dividing their total sum by the quantity of numbers in the set.