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Healthcare providers face additional challenges to providing high-quality care to the aging population. Because the numbers of ethnic minority elders are growing faster than the aging
population as a whole, providers must train to care for a more racially and ethnically diverse population of elderly. Respect and understanding of diverse cultural beliefs is necessary to
provide the most effective healthcare to all patients. Providers must also be able to communicate complicated medical conditions or treatments to older patients who may have a visual.
hearing, or cognitive impairment.
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As older adults make up an increasing proportion of the healthcare caseload, the demand for aging specialists must expand as well. Healthcare providers who work with the elderly must understand and address not only the physical but mental, emotional, and social changes of the aging process. They need to be able to distinguish between "normal" characteristics associated with aging and illness. Most crucially, they should look beyond (line 52) symptoms and consider ways that will help a senior maintain and improve her quality of life.
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1) The author uses the phrase going gray (line 1) in order to A. maintain that everyone's hair loses its color eventually.
B. depict older Americans in a positive light.
BCDE E
demonstrate the normal changes of aging.
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highlight the tendency of American culture to emphasize youth.. suggest the social phenomenon of an aging population.
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2) The tone of the passage is primarily one of
hysterical plea.
informed argument.
ABCDE
bemused inquiry.
detached reporting.E. playful speculation
3) The author implies that doctors who treat an elderly patient the same as they would a 40-year-old patient (line 15)
avoid detrimental stereotypes about older patients.
willfully ignore the needs of the elderly
ABCDE
provide equitable, high-quality care.
encourage middle-age adults to think about the long-term effects of their habits.
do not offer the most effective care to their older patients.
4) In line 28, the word address most nearly means
A. dissect.
B. neutralize.
