Final Flashcards

1
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Families whose memberships comprise blood and non-blood relationships through divorce or remarriage.

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Blended Families

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Grandparents who have legal custody of their grandkids when adult children are unable to provide care.

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Custodial Grandparents

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3
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Normative for middle aged parents of adult children when they leave home for college or employment.

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Empty Nest

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4
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Placement of children with relatives by the state child foster care.

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Formal Kinship Care

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5
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People in formal (e.g., physicians,
nurses) or informal (e.g., friends and neighbors) service roles who regularly interact with older adults and can watch for signs indicating a need for assistance

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Gatekeepers

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6
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Legal rights of grandparents to interact with grand children following divorce of the grandparents children; liabilities of grandparent and stepgrandparents as guardians of grandchildren in absence of responsible parents.

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Grandparent’s rights

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7
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relatives, especially grandparents, provide care without any formal child welfare involvement or benefits.

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Informal Kinship Care

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Services that facilitate the interaction of people across generations; typically young and old.

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Intergenerational Programs

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Pattern whereby the older generation tends to be more invested in future generations around transmission of values and resources.

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Intergenerational Stake Hypothesis

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10
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Strong emotional ties between family members even when they don’t live near each other.

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Intimacy at a distance

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11
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A family with three or more generations alive at one time. Considers the needs of the middle generation not just the young and the old.

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Multigenerational family

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12
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People who assist others because of their concern interest and innate understanding

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Natural Helper

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13
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New family structures derived through gay and lesbian partnerships, cohabitation and adoption.

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Nontraditional Families

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14
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Sharing resources and assistance among individuals.

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Reciprocal Change

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15
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Where the parent generation is absent.

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Skipped Generation Household

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16
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Close social relationships that surround an individual and can provide a protective, secure base, but personal and situational characteristics influence the type and extent of support needed.

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Social Convoy Model

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Encompasses both social networks and support; degree to which a person is involved with others in the larger social structure and community.

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Social Integration

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18
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The interrelationships and interactions between individuals that affect the flow of resources and support.

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Social Networks

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19
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Informational, emotional or instrumental assistance from social networks.

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Social Support

20
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Mal-treatment of older adults, including physical, sexual and psychological abuse, and financial exploitation and neglect.

A

Elder Mistreatment

21
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Deprivation of care necessary to maintain elders health by those trusted to provide care or by older persons themselves.

A

Elder Neglect

22
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Federal legislation passed in 1993 that provides job protection to workers requiring short-term leaves from their jobs for the care of a dependent parent, a seriously ill newborn, or adopted child.

A

Family and Medical Leave Act

23
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A type of self-neglect in which a person excessively saves things, often putting themselves or others at risk.

A

Hoarding

24
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Unpaid assistance provided by family, friends and neighbors for persons requiring help with ADL’s and IADL’s

A

Informal Caregiving

25
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Domestic violence between partners/spouses.

A

Intimate Partner Violence

26
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Requires state and area agencies on aging to provide services to support family caregivers.

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National Family Caregiver Support Program of 2000

27
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Reality demands that caregivers face. (income loss, job disruption, poor health)

A

Objective Burden

28
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Events that derive directly from the elder’s illness, such as memory loss or wandering.

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Primary Stressors

29
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Short-term relief for caregivers, may be provided in the home or outside of the home.

A

Respite Care

30
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Do not arise directly from the older persons illness, such as role strains and loss of time for self; however these are not secondary in their terms of their importance.

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Secondary Stressors

31
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The older adult engages in behavior that threatens their own safety, even though mentally competent.

A

Self-Neglect

32
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The caregivers experience of caregiver burden; differential appraisal of stress.

A

Subjective Burden

33
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Abusive behavior when a person uses role and power to exploit the trust, dependency, and fear of another, often around financial matters.

A

Undue Influence

34
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Women who have competing demands from older parents, partners, children or employment.

A

Women in the middle.

35
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Experienced before the death of a care recipient, often when there are cognitive and personality changes in persons with dementia, so that psychological death occurs before the physical death.

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Anticipatory Grief

36
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The act of assisting people with personal care, household chores, transportation, and other tasks associated with daily living; provided primarily by families without compensation or by direct care workers.

A

Caregiving

37
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Physical, emotional, and financial costs associated with assisting persons with long-term care needs.

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Caregiver Burden

38
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Long term, never ending grief that can impede physical and mental well-being.

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Chronic Sorrow

39
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Nurse aides, personal assistants, and home care staff who provide hands on care in both the home and long term care settings.

A

Direct Care workers.

40
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Grief that is not publicly recognized such as the death of an LGBT, partner, lover or pet.

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Disenfranchised Grief

41
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A housing option where small units are added to an existing home or as a detached unit on the property.

A

Accessory Housing (Mother in law Units)

42
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A community facility that frail older people, living at home can attend several hours each day; those based on social model focus on structured social and psychotherapeutic activities.

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Adult Day Care

43
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Adult day care with a strong health rehabilitative component, provides several health services and help with medications, in addition to social programs.

A

Adult Health Day Care

44
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A private home facility, licensed by the state, in which the owner of the home provides housekeeping, personal care, and some delegated nursing functions for the residents.

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Adult Foster Care

45
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Continuing to live in a private home or apartment, even when declining competence reduces, P-E congruence and more assistance with ADL is needed.

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Aging in Place

46
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A household model aimed at elder’s who need assistance with personal care e.g. bathing and taking medication, but who are not so physically or cognitively impaired as to need 24-hour attention.

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Assisted Living