Week 1 Flashcards
The baby boom generation years
-1946-1964
Chronological age
-number of years a person has lived
Biological age
-description of an individuals development based on biomedical markers that are determined by molecular or cellular events
Psychological age
-a description of ones own experiences using non-physical features such as experience, logic, and emotion
Social psychological (subjective) age
-the personal subjective age of a person based on how old the individual feels and how they feel towards age
Social age
-the social roles that an individual has placed on them by society that determines their age
Functional age
-a combination of chronological, biological, and psychological age
1st age
-childhood
2nd age
-working and parenting
3rd age
-“young old” age
-between 65-84
4th age
-above 85 years
Fries findings
-compression of morbidity
Rowe and Kahn findings
-avoiding disease and disability
-high cognitive and physical function
-engagement with life
MacArthur findings
-healthy aging is important but difficult
Strawbridge findings
-need to include the effect of chronic conditions and functional difficulties with successful aging
Reichstadt findings
-qualitative interviews on successful aging in older adult perspectives
-wisdom and education are important in healthy aging
Stochastic theories of aging
-aging occurs randomly and persistently with time through random error and damage to cells and organs
-most prevelent theory is free radical theory
Free radical theory
-free radicals are unstable molecules that cause oxidation which damages cells and genetic material
Nonstochastic (programmed) theories of aging
-biological clock
-aging is predetermined through programmed cell changes
