Unit 15 Flashcards
Healthy Aging
Growing old by avoiding disease, being engaged with life, and maintaining high cognitive and physical functioning.
Competence
Upper limit of a person’s ability to function in five domains: physical health, sensory-perceptual skills, motor skills, cognitive skills, and ego strength.
Environmental Press
Physical, interpersonal, or social demands that environments put on people.
Adaptation Level
When press level is average for a particular level of competence.
Zone of Maximum Performance Potential
When press level is slightly higher, tending to improve performance.
Zone of Maximum Comfort
When press level is slightly lower, facilitating a high quality of life.
Proactivity
When people choose new behaviors to meet new desires or needs and exert control over their lives.
Docility
When people allow their situation to dictate the options they have.
Preventive Adaptations
Actions that avoid stressors and increase or build social resources. Older adults tend to engage in these adaptations.
Corrective Adaptations
Actions taken in response to stressors that can be facilitated by internal and external resources. Older adults tend to start engaging in these adaptations.
Integrity versus Despair
According to Erikson, the process in late life by which people try to make sense of their lives.
Life Review
Process by which people reflect on the events and experiences of their lifetimes.
Subjective Well-Being
Evaluation of one’s life that is associated with positive feelings.
Spirituality Support
Type of coping strategy that includes seeking pastoral care, participating in organized and nonorganized religious activities, and expressing faith in a God who cares for people.
Social Convoy
Group of people who journey with us throughout our lives, providing support in good times and bad.
Socioemotional Selectivity
Theory that argues that social contact is motivated by a variety of goals, including information seeking, self-concept, and emotional regulation.
Frail Older Adults
Older adults who have physical disabilities, are very ill, may have cognitive or psychological disorders, and need assistance with everyday tasks.
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Basic self-care tasks such as eating, bathing, toileting, walking, and dressing.
Instrumental Activities of Daily living (IADLs)
Actions that require some intellectual competence and planning.
Physical Limitations (PLIMs)
Activities that reflect functional limitations such as walking a block or sitting for about two hours.
Sense of Place
Cognitive and emotional attachments that a person puts on his or her place of residence, by which a “house” is made into a “home.”
Functional Health
Ability to perform the activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), and physical limitations (PLIMs).
Assisted Living Facilities
Supportive living arrangement for people who need assistance with ADLs or IADLs but who are not so impaired physically or cognitively that they need 24-hour care.
Nursing Home
Type of long-term care facility that provide medical care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using a team of healthcare professionals that includes physicians (who must be on call at all times), nurses, therapists (e.g., physical, occupational), and others.
