Elderly Development Flashcards
What ages define a change in social roles?
Age 65 in some countries
Age 60 in the UN
What defines age?
A change in social role.
Between 2000 and 2050, the number of older people will increase by ___.
135%
Between 2000 and 2050, the number of people over age 85 will increase by ___.
350%
The number of people over age 65 is dramatically increasing by year due to: (4 things)
- Reduced death rates for children and young adults.
- Reduced death rates for the population aged 65-84
- In 2013, persons reaching age 65 had an average life expectancy of an additional 19.3 years
- A child born in 2013 could expect to live 78.8 years, about 30 years longer than a child born in 1900.
3 consequences of an aging society:
Economic
Social/Political prioritization
Healthcare
What is a risk factor for dementia and delirium?
Being unable to hear
As one ages, the ____ becomes more rigid, and the ______ becomes more elastic.
iris, lens
Elderly individuals have a harder time hearing _____ frequencies.
higher
Semantic (facts) memory, autobigraphical memory, and procedural (skills) memory are all preseserved in the elderly, but not _____ and ______ memory.
working (short-term); episodic (recent-past events)
The most common psychiatric disorder in the elderly.
Anxiety.
________ is not a normal part of aging.
Depression
What percentage of older adults abuse substances?
17%
Being over age 65 with moderate to heavy alcohol use makes it _______ more likely to die from ______.
16X, suicide
Adults age 65 and over have the highest _____ ______ among any group.
Suicide rate.
