Lecture 20 Theories of aging

Question 1

KNOW: Older adults becoming incerasinly dissimilar with increasing age
* Meaning one old adult might have a lot more function than another

NOTE: 14% of the population is 65+ (2014) with 20% expected to be 65+ by 2030

Question 2

Gerontology

Answer 2

The study of aging

Question 3

Study and treatment of the diseases associated w/ aging

Answer 3

Geriatrics

Question 4

Question 5

The negative stereotyping that leads to prejudice and therefore, discriminatory practice

Answer 5

Ageism

maybe don’t just picture an old person w/ a cane

Question 6

Condiitions that are not a universal part of aging, and therefore not part of the normal process of growing older

Answer 6

Age-related illness
* Demxia is not an age releated illnes sbut is associated w/ aging
* Arhtereitits, its not because you’re aging that you’re going to get arthritits but it is associated w/ it (not eveyr old person gets arthritits)

Question 7

Universal, time ordered biological, psychological and sociocultural processes that affect development

Answer 7

Normaitive age-graded influence

EX: Biological = puberty / menopuase

Psychological/Socioculture = school age (must be 5 to enter kindergarden)

Question 8

Events that most people in a specific culture or population experience at the same time

Answer 8

Normative history-graded influences
* EX: The great depression, school desegregation, hurricane katrina

Question 9

Random, rare, or idiosyncratic events that are highly important to a specific individual person, but not experienced by most people

Answer 9

Non-normative influences
* EX: genetic predispositions, family dynamics - things that are not the norm, very specific

Question 10

We’ve really only studied two cohorts of old people

Question 11

Loses and gains to aging

Question 12

A child born in 2016 should expect to live to

Answer 12

78.6 years

note: a child born in 1900 could expect to live 47.3 years

Question 13

Life expectancy is increasing

Question 14

age adjusted death rates

highest = black males
lowest = hispanic female (least death rates)

Question 15

Treatinf older adults

First, we must compare the clients current functioning needs to their own baseline - not just norms but their norms

Second, place the person in context
* Historical, educational, and social expectations, opportunitites, and challenges

Psychologists have argued that the optimal environment provides the best “fit” to the older persons changing abilitites
* Is this an optimally challenging environment or one that meets all their needs comfortably?
* so maybe don’t just meet needs comrtably, meet their needs in an optimally challenging environment - does depend on the pts overall goals for themselves

Question 16

meaning they dont recovery as quickly if they are sedentary

Question 17

One big challenge for PT’s is the diversty amoung older adults. Some are healthy some not, they know different things. Not just race

Question 18

what are the four models of aging?

Answer 18

1) Slippery slope of aging (most popular)
2) Sucessful aging
3) Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC)
4) Resilience

Question 19

which model of aging is defined as general decline in overall physiological activity (defined as vigor). Can be modified based on lifestyle factors and illness that influence physiological functioning

Answer 19

Slippery slope of aging

Question 20

Phyiological activity = vigor

this shows that slippery slope of aging

Question 21

can see a minor illness will cause a dip. However, if they have a lower vigor that mild illness will take a bigger dip and will take a lot longer to recover
* dotted line shows the being independent level
* Key is to stay far away from being dependent, then that dip wont take you below and wont affect you as much

Question 22

Which theory descirbes usual normal aging vs sucessful aging
* what is the problem w/ this theory

Answer 22

sucesful aging theory

only 12% meet that sucessful aging

Question 23

Adults are active in setting, pursing, and maintaining goals desipite the challenges of changing, biological, scoial, cognitive, and cultural resources
* elective selection versus loss-based selection

Which theory is this?

Answer 23

Selective optimization with compensation

Question 24

Which theory is this

Three dimensions of resilient aging
* Effective coping to maintain functional health
* Developing a comfortable life structure
* Achieving a sense of purpose in life and wisdom

Answer 24

Resilience

Question 25

This is for geriatric shit

Question 26

Places to get geriatric info