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Define senescence

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A gradual physical decline related to aging (when growth stops) (affects every part of the body, visible, invisible)

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Define infertility

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The inability to conceive a child after trying for at least a year

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Why does infertility typically occur?

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  • Age (both)
  • Male: Low sperm count-age, anything that impairs body functioning for over 75 days reduces sperm count, pollution, stress, STIs
  • Female: anything that impairs body functioning, pelvic inflammatory disease, STIs,
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What is ART?

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Assisted reproductive technology- helps many couples overcome various fertility obstacles

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What are ways to overcome infertility?

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  • surgery to repair male or female reproductive systems
  • Assisted reproductive technology

-in vitro fertilization (iVF)- ova (egg cells) are surgically removed from a woman and fertilized with sperm in a laboratory, fertilized cells divide several time, then inserted into woman’s uterus
(May increase illness, birth defects, low birth weight, twins, triplets)

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Define menopause

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The time in middle age, usually around 50, when a woman’s menstrual periods cease and the production of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone drops. Menopause is dated one year after a woman’s last menstrual period.

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Define andropause

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A term coined to signify a drop in testosterone levels in older men, which normally results in reduced sexual desire, erections, and muscle mass

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If severe brain loss occurs before late adulthood, the cause is not normal senescence but one of the following

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Drug abuse- all psychoactive drugs harm the brain, especially excessive alch use

Poor circulation-everything that impairs blood flow (high blood pressure, smoking) impairs cognition

Viruses- can destroy neurons

Genes- Alzheimer’s disease gene and other genes also affect the brain

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What are changes in the brain with age?

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  • neurons fire more slowly
  • messages sent from the axon of one neuron are not picked up as quickly by the dendrites of other neurons
  • reaction time lengthens
  • multitasking becomes harder
  • processing takes longer
  • complex working-memory taste become virtually impossible

(A few individuals experience significant brain loss w age)

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Define mortality

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Death

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Define morbidity

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Disease, the rates of which depend partly on diagnosis

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Define disability

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The usual result of morbidity, is the inability to do something that people usually do.
(Ex: vision loss)

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Define vitality

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Some people with morbid conditions that increase disability and the risk of mortality are nonetheless happy and active

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What’s the leading cause of death for adults 25-65?

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Cancer (due to lifestyle)

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What are the smoking rates in the U.S?

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  • Lung cancer deaths for 55-64 yr old males are about half what they were in 1970
  • women’s smoking has increased over time (rates for women’s lung cancer deaths has increased) (doubling from 1980-2008)
  • long-term effects of smoking include reduced oxygen intake and this lower vitality
  • cancer deaths are decreasing in most developed nations, including the U.S
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How much does metabolism decrease between the ages 20-60?

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1/3

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Define stressor

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Any situation, event, experience, or other stimulus that causes a person to feel stressed

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Define problem-focused coping

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A strategy to deal with stress by tackling a stressful situation directly

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Define emotion-focused coping

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A strategy to deal with stress by changing feelings about the stressor rather than changing the stressor itself

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Define general intelligence (g)

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The idea of g assumes that intelligence is one basic trait, underlying all cognitive abilities.

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What is the Flynn effect?

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The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations

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Define Seattle-longitudinal study

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The first cross-sequential study of adult intelligence. Study from 1956-2005

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Define fluid intelligence

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Those types of basic intelligence that make learning of all sorts quick and thorough.

(Abilities such a short-term memory, abstract thought, and speed of thinking are all usually considered parts of fluid intelligence)

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Define crystallized intelligence

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Those types of intellectual ability that reflect accumulated learning.

(vocabulary and general information are examples. Some developmental psychologists think crystallized intelligence increases with age, while fluid intelligence declines)

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Define analytic intelligence

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A form of intelligence that involves such mental processes as abstract planning, strategy selection, focused attention, and information processing, as well as verbal and logical skills

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Define creative intelligence

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A form of intelligence that involves the capacity to be intellectually flexible and innovative

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Define practical intelligence

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The intellectual skills used in everyday problem solving

Tactic intelligence

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What is selective optimization with compensation?

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The theory, developed by Paul and Margret Baltes, that people try to maintain a balance in their lives by looking for the best way to compensate for physical and cognitive losses and to become more proficient in activities they can already do

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Define expert

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One who is notably more accomplished, proficient, and/or knowledgeable in a particular skill, topic, or task than the average person

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Define expertise

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A person’s ability to be more accomplished at a particular skill, or to have better knowledge of a particular subject, than the average person

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Define automatic processing

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Thinking that occurs without deliberate, conscious thought. Experts process most tasks automatically, saving conscious thought for unfamiliar challenges

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Define midlife crisis

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A supposed period of unusual anxiety, radical self-reexamination, and sudden transformation that was once widely associated with middle age but that actually had more to do with developmental history than with chronological age

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What are the big five?

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Openness- imaginative, curious, artistic, creative, open to new experiences

Conscientiousness- organized, deliberate, conforming, self-disciplined

Extroversion- outgoing, assertive, active

Agreeableness- kind, helpful, easygoing, generous

Neuroticism- anxious, moody, self-punishing, critical

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What are Erikson’s stages of adulthood?

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Identity vs role confusion- identity crisis (sexual/gender, vocational/work, religious/spiritual, and political/ethnic)

Intimacy vs isolation- seeking a close, reciprocal connection with another person.

Generativity vs stagnation- caring for the next generation

Integrity vs despair- helping all humanity

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As children live apart from their parents their relationship w them becomes?

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Stronger

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What can enhance closeness in sibling relationships?

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Marriage, childbearing

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What do parents provide to their adult children more so than vice versa

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Financial, emotional support

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What is strongly affected by adult lives of their children?

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A parents satisfaction

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Define fictive kin

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Someone who becomes accepted as part of a family to which he or she has no blood relation

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Define empty nest

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The time in the lives of parents when their children have left the family home to pursue their own lives

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Define kinkeeper

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A caregiver who takes responsibility for maintaining communication among family members

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Define extrinsic rewards of work

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The tangible benefits, usually in the form of compensation that one receives for doing a job (ex: salary)

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Define intrinsic rewards of work

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The intangible gratification that come from within oneself as a result of doing a job
(ex: Pride, job satisfaction)

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Define flextime

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An arrangement in which work schedules are flexible so that employees can balance personal and occupational responsibilities

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Define telecommuting

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Working at home and keeping in touch with the office via computer, telephone, and scanner

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Define familism

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The belief that family members should support one another, sacrificing individual freedom and success, if necessary, in order to preserve family unity and protect the family from outside forces

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Define cross-sectional research

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A research design that compares groups of people who differ in age but are similar in other important characteristics

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Define cross-sequential research

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A hybrid research design in which researchers first study several groups of people of different ages and then follows those groups over the years

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Define longitudinal research

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A research design in which the same individuals are followed over time and their development is repeatedly assessed

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The rate of obesity _____ with age until late adulthood?

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Increases

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In the U.S ______percent of adults are overweight w a BMI above 25

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65-70

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How much of overweight people are obese?

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More than half

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What are the countries with the highest rates of overweight (in order)

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  • U.S
  • Mexico
  • Germany
  • Brazil
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What are the causes of obesity?

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Inactivity- exercise protects against illness, disease, heart benefits, etc.

Depression

Poor eating choices

Stress

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What is generativity vs stagnation

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  • The seventh of Erikson’s eight stages of development
  • Adults seek to be productive in a caring way, perhaps through art, caregiving, and employment
  • chief form is “establishing and guiding the next generation” (usually through parenthood)
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Challenges of stepparenting, adoption, and caring for foster children

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Foster children- intimacy needs to be met, loving bond

Step parenting- may be strongly connected to biological parents, Childs reckless behavior causes distance between stepparent and them

Adoption- more advantages than other two, strong bonds often develop, secure attachments, but children who spend their early years in an institution may never be attached to anyone-may be fearful to love anyone

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Define the sandwich generation

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The generation of middle-aged people who are supposedly “squeezed” by the need of the younger and older members of their families. In reality, some adults do feel pressured by these obligation, but most are not burdened by them, either because they enjoy fulfilling them or because they choose to take on only some of them or none of them

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Caring for elderly relative can affect what

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Sibling relationships- one sibling usually becomes the chief caregiver, to the resentment of everyone else

Marriages- spouses can become resentful if ones spouses elderly relatives is not what the other spouse anticipated

Employment

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Why are jobs usually lost?

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  • employer downsize
  • reorganize
  • relocate
  • outsource
  • merge
  • sometimes adults quit due to dissatisfaction or frustration
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As adults grow older, Job changes become increasingly stressful, why?

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1) seniority brings higher salaries, more respect, and greater expertise; workers who leave a job they have had for years lose these advantages
2) many skills required for employment were not taught decades ago, and many employers are reluctant to hire and train older workers
3) age discrimination is illegal, but workers are convinced that it is common (even if not true we know from stereotype threat that it undercuts success in job searches
4) relocation reduces both intimacy and generativity

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What is one crucial variable for job satisfaction?

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-whether employees can choose their own hours

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What percent of contemporary U.s adults will never make a marriage-like commitment that is expected to last

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10%

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Marital happiness over the years

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First 6 months- honeymoon period-happiest of all

6 months to 5 years- happiness dips; divorce is more common now than later in marriage

5-10 years- happiness holds steady

10-20 years- happiness dips as children reach puberty

20-30 years- happiness rises when children leave the nest

30-50 years- happiness is high and steady, barring serious health problems

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What effects does cohabitation have on couples

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  • less chances of a happy marriage (same for couples who have sex within first months of being together)
  • less children
  • man earn less money
  • woman spends less time on household tasks
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What is “living apart together”?

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They have separate residence, but especially when the partners are older than 30, May be committed to each other, perhaps functioning as a couple for decades

66
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Why do people divorce?

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-some aspect of the marriage has become difficult to endure

67
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What are the effects of divorce?

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  • reduced income
  • lost friendships (other couples)
  • weakened relationships with the children (immediately and when children become adults)
68
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What are stressors for divorce before marriage

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  • divorced parents
  • either partner is under 21
  • family opposed
  • cohabitation before marriage
  • previous divorce of either partner
  • large discrepancy in age, background, interests, values
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Stressors for divorce during marriage

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  • divergent plans and practices regarding childbearing and child rearing
  • financial stress, unemployment
  • substance abuse
  • communication difficulties
  • lack of time together
  • emotional or physical abuse
  • unsupportive relatives
70
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Stressors for divorce in culture

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  • high divorce rate in cohort
  • weak religious values
  • laws that make divorce easier
  • approval of remarriage
  • acceptance of single parenthood
71
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Who does divorce affect?

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  • family problems arise with children and other relatives (custodial parents become stricter and noncustodial parents feel excluded)
  • relationships with in-laws disappears (almost always)
  • intimacy is diminished
  • some adults confide their trouble to their children, which may help the adults with intimacy needs but does not help children
  • children need more parental help than before
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Income, family welfare, and self esteem are ____ among the formerly married than among people the same age who are still married or who have always been single

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Lower

73
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What helps Holden cope with divorce

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Developing a stronger and warmer mother child relationship

74
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Define young old

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Healthy, vigorous, financially secure older adults (generally 60-75) who are well integrated into the lives of their families and communities

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Define old old

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Older adults (generally older than 75) who suffer from physical, mental, and social deficits

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Define oldest old

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Elderly adults (generally older than 85) who are dependent on others for almost everything, requiring supportive services such as nursing homes and hospital stays

77
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Define wear and tear (theory of aging)

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A view of aging as a process by which the human body wears outs because of the passage of time and exposure to environmental stressors

(Applies to some body parts, it does not explain overall aging)

78
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Define generic clock (theory of aging)

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a purported mechanism in the DNA of cells that regulates the aging process by triggering hormonal changes and controlling cellular reproduction and repair

79
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Define cellular aging (theory of aging)

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The ways in which molecules and cells are affected by age. Many theories aim to explain how and why aging causes cells to deteriorate

Toxins damage cells over time, so minor errors in copying accumulate.

The job of the cells of the immune system is to recognize pathogens and destroy them, but the immune system weakens with age as well as with repeated stresses and infections

80
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Define hayflick limit

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The number of times a human cell is capable of dividing into two new cells

81
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Define demographic shift

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A shift in the proportions of the populations of various ages

82
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Define ageism

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A prejudice whereby people are categorized and judged solely on the basis of their chronological age

83
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Define centenarian

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A person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years

84
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Define elderspeak

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A condescending way of speaking to older adults that resembles baby talk, with simple and short sentences, exaggerated emphasis, repetition, and a slower rate and a higher pitch than used in normal speech

85
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Why is ageism accepted? What are some results of ageism?

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It’s in our culture, evident in tv, employment, retirement communities

Often seems complimentary

Results: self doubt, anxiety, morbidity, and even mortality

86
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Define primary aging

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The universal and irreversible physical changes that occur in all living creatures as they grow

87
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Define secondary aging

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The specific physical illnesses or conditions that become more common with aging but are caused by health habits, genes, and other influences that vary from person to person

88
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Define compression of morbidity

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A shortening of the time a person spends ill or infirm, accomplished by postponing illness

89
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Define dementia

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Irreversible loss of intellectual functioning caused by organic brain damage or disease or disease. Done this becomes more common with age, but it is abnormal and pathological even in the very old

90
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Define delirium

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A temporary loss of memory, often accompanied by hallucinations, terror, grandiosity, and irrational behavior

91
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What is senile dementia/senile psychosis?

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Dementia that occurs after age 60

92
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What is presenile dementia?

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Dementia that occurs before age 60

93
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Define Alzheimer’s disease (AD)

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The most common cause of dementia, characterized by gradual deterioration of memory and personality and marked by the formation of plaques of beta-amyloid protein and tangles of tau in the brain

Destroys the ability of neurons to communicate with one another, eventually stopping brain functioning

Partly genetic

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Define vascular dementia

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A form of dementia characterized by sporadic, and progressive, loss of intellectual functioning caused by repeated infarcts, or temporary obstructions of blood vessels, which prevent sufficient blood from reaching the brain

(Aka multi-infarct dementia)

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Define frontal lobe dementia

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Deterioration of the amygdala and frontal lobes that may be the cause of 15% of all dementias (aka frontotemporal lobar degeneration)

(Deteriorates parts of the brain that regulate emotion, causes personality changes)

96
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Define Parkinson’s disease

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A chronic, progressive disease that is characterized by muscle tremor and rigidity and sometimes dementia; caused by reduced dopamine production in the brain

97
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Define Lewy body dementia

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A form of dementia characterized by an increase in Lewy body cells in the brain. Symptoms include visual hallucinations, momentary loss of attention, falling, and fainting

98
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Define mini-mental state examination (MMSE)

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A test that is used to measure cognitive ability, especially in late adulthood

99
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Define polypharmacy

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Refers to a situation in which elderly people are prescribed several medications. The various side effects and interactions of those medications can result in dementia symptoms

100
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What’s maslows hierarchy of needs

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Self actualization- the final stage, characterized by aesthetic, creative, philosophical, and spiritual understanding
Self Esteem-confidence, respect of others
Love/belonging-friendship, family, intimacy
Safety-security of body, employment
Physiological-food, water, sex, sleep

101
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Define life review

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An examination of ones own role in the history of human life, engaged in by many elderly people

102
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Most objective research finds that wisdom does not necessarily ______ with age

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Increase

103
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One summary of wisdom describes wisdom as

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“Expert knowledge system dealing with the conduct and understanding of life”

Several factors:

  • ability to put aside ones personal needs (self-actualization)
  • self-reflective honesty (integrity)
  • perspective on past lives (life review)
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Why do the elderly have a head start on wisdom

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If they have dedicated their lives to the “understanding of life” are willing and able to learn from their experiences

105
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Ina study of extraordinarily creative people, almost none of them felt that their ability, goals, or quality of work had been much impaired by ______

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Age

106
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Expressing ones creativity and aesthetic sense is said to aid in ?

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social skills

Resilience

Brain health

107
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What factors could possible lengthen life?

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Diet- people are mostly fresh vegetables and herbs, with little meat or fat. (Better to be a little hungry than too full)

Work- even the very old did work, household tasks, and childcare

Social interactions- (family and community) the elderly were well integrated into families of several generations and interacted frequently with friends and neighbors

Exercise- (and relaxation) most took a walk every morning and evening, napped midday, and socialized in the evening

108
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Define gerontology

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The scientific study of age, the process of aging, and the particular problems of old people

109
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Define geriatrics

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The branch of medicine or social science dealing with the health and care of old people

110
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The shape of the worlds aging population historically was a demographic pyramid (like a wedding cake) widest at the base, and each higher level was narrower than the one beneath it, for three reasons-none currently true:

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1) more children were born than the replacement rate of one per adult, so each new generation had more people than the previous one
2) many babies died, which made the bottom bar much wider than later ones
3) serious illness was usually fatal, reducing size of each older group

111
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What can cause deviation from the wedding cake pattern of the worlds aging population?

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Unusual events

Ex: Great Depression, World War II

112
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Right now who outnumbers who, children or elderly?

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Children

113
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Define dependency ratio

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a calculation of the number of self-sufficient, productive adults compared with the number of dependents (children and the elderly) in a given population

114
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(Hearing) By age 90 the average man is almost _____, we are about ____ the women

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Deaf, half

115
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What affects the use or nonuse of technological possibilities by society and elders to avoid bifocals, hearing aids, squinting and mishearing, until blindness or deafness is imminent

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Ageism

116
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As people grow older the brain becomes less efficient because?

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(Growth is slower)

Reduces production of neurotransmitters, neural fluid decreases, myelination things, cerebral blood circulates more slowly

Deterioration of cognition

Areas of the Brain shrink with age

117
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What are powerful influence on brain health and predict intelligence in old age

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Exercise

Nutrition

Normal blood pressure

118
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Brain shrinking interferes with

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Multitasking

119
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A curious finding from PET and FMRI scans is that, compared with younger adults older adults

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Use more parts of their brains, including both hemispheres, to solve problems

120
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Why do older individuals take longer to perceive and process sensations, and this reduces working memory because

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Some items fade before they can be evaluated

121
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Define control processes

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The part of the information-processing system that regulates the analysis and flow of information.

Memory and retrieval strategies, selective attention, and rules or strategies for problem solving are all useful control processes

122
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What do control processes depend on

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The prefrontal cortex (shrinks w age)

123
Q

Define self theories

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

Remain themselves

124
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Define integrity vs despair

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

125
Q

Define compulsive hoarding

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The urge to accumulate and hold onto familiar objects in possession sometimes to the point of their becoming health and or safety hazards. This impulse tends to increase with age.

126
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Define positivity effect

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The tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones

127
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Define stratification theories

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Theories that emphasize that social forces, particularly those related to a person’s social stratum or social category, limit individual choices and affect a person’s ability to function in late adulthood because past stratification continues to limit life in various ways

128
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Define disengagement theory

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

129
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Define activity theory

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

130
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What are stratification a that may be particularly harmful in late adulthood?

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Gender

Ethnicity

Economic strata

All place people on particular paths life-long

131
Q

U.S legislators outlawed mandatory retirement except in

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Special occupations

Ex: jet pilot

132
Q

When older workers in the U.S were no longer required to quit at 65 the average age of retirement

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Decreased

133
Q

Retirement is as likely to improve health as it is to precipitate a

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Decline

134
Q

What are the benefits of volunteering

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Generativity

Social connections- which can lead to more volunteering

Less depression

Good for our wellbeing to help others

Reduces the odds of death (maybe because volunteers typically have more education, which correlates with a longer life)

135
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Why don’t some elders volunteer?

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1) social culture-ageism may discourage meaningful volunteering. Many volunteering opportunities are geared toward the young
2) organizations-institutions lack recruitment, training, and implementation strategies for attracting older volunteers
3) the elderly themselves-older people are often afraid to leave their familiar patterns
4) the science-definitions used in research, surveys of volunteering ignore daily caregiving and informal helping

136
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Define age in place

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

137
Q

Define universal design

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Designing physical space and common tools that are suitable for people of all ages and all levels of ability

138
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Define naturally occurring retirement community (NORC)

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A neighborhood or apartment complex whose participation is mostly retired people who moved to the location as younger adults and never left

139
Q

Older adults attend fewer religious services than do middle-aged but faith _____ with age

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Increases

140
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Define AARP

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A U.S organization of people 50 and older that advocates for the elderly. It was originally called the American association of retired persons, but now only the initials AARP are used, since members need not be retired

141
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What are political opinions of elderly reflect on

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Nationals trends and their own personal history more than their chronological age

Do not vote necessarily vote their own economic interests

142
Q

Who is more likely to be informed about current events and to vote younger adults or elderly

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Elderly

143
Q

Why are long term partnerships beneficial

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Married people tend to have longer, healthier, and happier lives than unmarried ones do

144
Q

Define filial responsibility

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The obligation of adult children to care for their aging parents

145
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Relationships between parents and adult children are affected by what factors

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Assistance arises both from need and from the ability to provide

Frequency of contact is related to geographical proximity, not affection

Love is influence by the interaction remembered from childhood

Sons feel stronger obligation; daughters feel stronger affection

146
Q

What influences the nature of the grandparent-grandchild relationship

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Personality

Background

And past family interactions

147
Q

In developed nations grandparents fill one of four roles

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Remote grandparents- (distant grandparent) are emotionally distant from their grandchildren. They are esteemed elders who are honored, respected, and obeyed, expecting to get help whenever they need it

Companionate grandparents- (fun-loving grandparent) entertains and spoil their grandchildren-especially in ways, or for reasons, that parents would not

Involved grandparent- are active in the day to day lives of their grandchildren. They live near them and see them daily

Surrogate parents- raise their grandchildren, usually because the parents are unable or unwilling to do so

148
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What role do most grandparents fulfill

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Companionate grandparents

149
Q

Why is friendship essential in old age

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Successful aging

Not be socially isolated

Quality not quantity of friendship of friendship is crucial

150
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Define frail elderly

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People older than 65, and often older than 85, who are physically infirm, very ill, or cognitively disabled

151
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Define activities of daily life (ADLs)

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Typically identified as five tasks of self-care that are important to independent living: eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, and transferring from a bed to a chair. The inability to perform any of these tasks is a sign of fraility.

152
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Define instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs)

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Actions 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

Inability to preform IADLs makes people frail, even if they can perform all five ADLs

153
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What are some examples of instrumental activities of daily life

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Managing medical care

Food preparation

Transportation

Communication

Manning household

Managing ones finances

154
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Who typically the caregiver for the frail elderly

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Most likely their spouse

If no partner then usually siblings or adult daughters

Less often sons and daughter-in-laws or adult grandchildren

155
Q

Why are home health aides or nursing homes used

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When an elderly person requires extensive daily care

156
Q

Family caregiving in the United States often results in many problems such as

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  • if one adult child is the primary caregiver, other siblings feel both relief and jealousy. The caregiver wants sibling help, but the siblings resent being told what to do
  • care receivers and caregivers disagree about schedules, menus, doctor visits, and so on. Resentments on both sides disrupt mutual affection and appreciation
  • public agencies rarely provide services unless a crisis arises
157
Q

Medical professionals and social workers are alert to the possibility of elder abuse and are suspicious of an elder is

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Unexpectedly quiet

Losing weight

Injured

158
Q

Abuse is likely if

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The caregiver suffers from emotional problems or substance abuse

159
Q

He training bf workload of the staff (in a nursing home) is ______ but most front line workers have little training, low pay, and many patients-and almost half of them leave each year

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Crucial

160
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Define assisted living

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A living arrangement for elderly people that combines privacy and independence with medical supervision

Typically provides a private room, allows pets, furnishing, meals provided, special bus trips/activities, medical assistance available

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