Chapter 25

Question 1

Theories of late adulthood that emphasize the core self, or the search to maintain one’s integrity and identity

Answer 1

Self Theories

Question 2

The final stage of Erik Erikson’s developmental sequence, in which older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community.

Answer 2

Integrity versus despair

Question 3

The tendency to cling to familiar places and possessions, sometimes to the point of becoming a health or safety hazard.

Answer 3

Compulsive hoarding

Question 4

______________________________________________________________is central to self theories.

Answer 4

Selective optimization with compensation

Question 5

The tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones. Selective memory is a way to compensate for whatever troubles occur. Unpleasant experiences are reinterpreted as inconsequential.

Answer 5

Positivity effect

Question 6

Self-perception normally tilts toward integrity or despair.

Answer 6

integrity rather than despair.

Question 7

Research on what people hope for themselves =( )

Answer 7

the ideal self

Question 8

how they perceive themselves

Answer 8

the real self

Question 9

self-acceptance leads to

Answer 9

happiness

Question 10

The view that aging makes a person’s social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity.

Answer 10

Disengagement theory

Question 11

The view that elderly people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres—with relatives, friends, and community groups—and become withdrawn only unwillingly, as a result of ageism.

Answer 11

Activity theory

Question 12

______________theory says that factors such as education, health, employment, and place of residence create large discrepancies in income by old age.

Answer 12

Stratification

Question 13

past stresses and medical disabilities, creates a high allostatic load which is an accumulation of problems that make a person vulnerable to serious disease.

Answer 13

Weathering

Question 14

One of the favorite activities of many retirees is caring for their own homes is know as

Answer 14

“Home Sweet Home’

Question 15

Remaining in the same home and community in later life, adjusting but not leaving when health fades known as…..

Answer 15

Aging in place

Question 16

-A neighborhood or apartment complex whose population is mostly retired people who moved to the location as younger adults and never left. know as _____________________

–An important reason for both aging in place and NORCs is the social convoy, the result of years of close relationships.

Answer 16

Naturally occurring retirement community (NORC

Question 17

A U.S. group of people aged 50 and older that advocates for the elderly.

Answer 17

AARP

Question 18

Multiple generations but only a few members in each one

Answer 18

Beanpole family

Question 19

• The obligation of adult children to care for their aging parents.
• A major goal among adults in the U.S. is to be self-sufficient.
• Adult children may be more willing to offer support than their parents are to receive it.

Answer 19

Filial responsibility

Question 20

Most (85 percent) elders over age __ are grandparents.

Answer 20

65

Question 21

In the U.S., contemporary grandparents follow one of four approaches to dealing with their grandchildren.
______grandparents (sometimes called distant grandparents) are emotionally distant.
__________grandparents (sometimes called “fun-loving” grandparents) entertain and “spoil” their grandchildren.
_______ grandparents are active in the day-to-day lives of their grandchildren.
___________ parents raise their grandchildren, usually because the parents are unable or unwilling to do so.

Answer 21

Remote
Companionate
Involved
Surrogate

Question 22

People over age 65, and often over age 85, who are physically infirm, very ill, or cognitively disabled. Is most common in the months preceding death.

Answer 22

Frail elderly

Question 23

Actions that are important to independent living, typically identified as five tasks of self-care: 
-Eating
-Bathing,
-Toileting
-Dressing
-Transferring from a bed to a chair
******Inability to perform any of these tasks is a sign of frailty. 
 These are called \_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 23

ADL’s Activities of Daily Living

Question 24

Actions (for example, paying bills and driving a car) that are important to independent living and that require some intellectual competence and forethought. The ability to perform these tasks may be even more critical to self-sufficiency than ADL ability.

Answer 24

Instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs)

Question 25

More likely to occur when:
the care receiver is a feeble person who suffers severe memory loss.
the caregiver is a drug-addicted relative.
care occurs in an isolated place.
visitors are few and far between.
These people are at risk for ________ ______.

Answer 25

Elderly Abuse

Question 26

about __ percent of elders say they are abused.

up to / of all elders are vulnerable but do not report abuse.

Answer 26

5; 1/4th

Question 27

A living arrangement for elderly people that combines privacy and independence with medical supervision; range from group homes for three or four elderly people to large apartment or townhouse developments for hundreds of residents.

Answer 27

Assisted living