Lesson 6 - Aging

Question 1

What is chronological age?

Answer 1

• the number of years since birth
• used to find patterns of data (average times a 60 year old uses their phones)

Question 2

What is biological age?

Answer 2

• age in terms of biological health
• functional capacity of a person’s organ

Question 3

What is social age?

Answer 3

• based on connectedness with others and social roles adapted
• better relationship = happy people

Question 4

What is psychological age?

Answer 4

• individuals adaptive capacities compared to chronological age
• more of able to adapt, memory and emotions can go under here
• level of maturty

Question 5

What is normal aging?

Answer 5

• Characterizes most individuals in which their psychological function often peaks in early middle age, remains relatively stable until the late fifties to sixties, and then shows a modest decline through eighties

Question 6

What is pathological aging?

Answer 6

• characterized individuals who show greater than average declines as they age through adult years
• May have mild cognitive impairment in early old age, develop alzheimer disease later on, or have a chronic disease that impairs their daily functioning
• HOW HAPPY YOU MEANT BE (LESS HAPPY = GREATER CHANCE OF PATHOLOGICAL AGING, ex. More trauma)

Question 7

What is successful aging?

Answer 7

Characterizes individuals whose positive physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development is maintained longer, declining later in old age than is the case for most people