Chapter 25 Flashcards
Late Adulthood Psychosocial Development
Theories of late adulthood that emphasize the core self, or the search to maintain one’s integrity and identity
Self Theories
The final stage of Erik Erikson’s developmental sequence, in which older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community.
Integrity versus despair
The tendency to cling to familiar places and possessions, sometimes to the point of becoming a health or safety hazard.
Compulsive hoarding
______________________________________________________________is central to self theories.
Selective optimization with compensation
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.
Positivity effect
Self-perception normally tilts toward integrity or despair.
integrity rather than despair.
Research on what people hope for themselves =( )
the ideal self
how they perceive themselves
the real self
self-acceptance leads to
happiness
The view that aging makes a person’s social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity.
Disengagement theory
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want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres—with relatives, friends, and community groups—and become withdrawn only unwillingly, as a result of ageism.
Activity theory
______________theory says that factors such as education, health, employment, and place of residence create large discrepancies in income by old age.
Stratification
past stresses and medical disabilities, creates a high allostatic load which is an accumulation of problems that make a person vulnerable to serious disease.
Weathering
One of the favorite activities of many retirees is caring for their own homes is know as
“Home Sweet Home’
Remaining in the same home and community in later life, adjusting but not leaving when health fades known as…..
Aging in place
-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.
Naturally occurring retirement community (NORC
A U.S. group of people aged 50 and older that advocates for the elderly.
AARP
Multiple generations but only a few members in each one
Beanpole family
- 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.
Filial responsibility
Most (85 percent) elders over age __ are grandparents.
65
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.
Remote
Companionate
Involved
Surrogate
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.
Frail elderly
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 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
ADL’s Activities of Daily Living
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.
Instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs)
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 ________ ______.
Elderly Abuse
about __ percent of elders say they are abused.
up to / of all elders are vulnerable but do not report abuse.
5; 1/4th
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.
Assisted living
