Week 10 - retirement/old ag Flashcards
3 components of successful aging
- avoid disease & disability
- engagement with life
- maintain cognitive & physical functioning
warning signs of memory decline
- difficulty retaining familiar functioning and activities
- disorientation: time, place, date and location
- poor abstract thinking
developmental tasks of old age
- accepting ones life
- promoting intellectual vigour
- redirecting energy to new roles & activities
- developing a point of view about death
The SOC Model
wellbeing rests on the ability to manage or reduce the impact of stressful life events; requiring the integration of 3 processes:
- selection
- optimisation
- compensation
5 personality characteristics have been linked with life satisfaction in later life
- extroversion
- usefulness
- lack of neuroticism
- optimism
- sense of control
factors to promote intellectual vigour
- intelligence
- memory
- thinking & change
post formal operational thinking
criticised for its lack of relevance and familiarity to older subjects
post formal thought
a qualitatively new form of thinking that emerges after formal operational thought
intergenerational solidarity
closeness and commitment within the parent child and grand parent - grandchild relationships. Characterised by 5 dimensions: affectional , associational, consensual, functional and structural solidarity
psychosocial crisis of older adult age
integrity v despair
integrity
ability to accept that facts of ones life and to face death without great fear
despair
feeling a loss of hope and confidence
depression
state of feeling sad, accompanied by feelings of low personal worth and withdrawal from relations
senescence
a time when age related deficits are manifested; and the body can no longer repair it’s own tissues
grandparent styles
- formal
- fun seeker
- surrogate parent
- reservoir of family wisdom
- distant figure
