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22 Cards in this Set
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ego integrity versus despair
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involves coming to terms with one's life. Adults who arrive at a sense of integrity feel whole, complete, and satisfied with their achievments.
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the negative outcome despair occurs when elders feel_______?
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they have made many wrong decisisions, yet time is too short to find an alternate route to integrity. tendency to blame others for personal failures, and regretful view of his own life reflect this deep sense of despair.
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ego differentiation versus work-role preoccupation
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after retirement, aging people who have invested heabilyh in their careers must find other ways of affirming their selfworth-through family, friendship, and community roles that are just as satisfying as work life. (Peck)
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body transcendence versus body preoccupation
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older adults must transcend physical limitations-declines in appearance, physical capacities, and resistance to disease-by emphasizing the compensating reward of cognitive, emotional, and social powers.
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ego transcendence versus ego preoccupation
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as spouse, siblings, friends, and peers die, the elderly must find a way to face the reality ofd death constructively, through investing in a longer future than their own lifespan. although the generative years of early and middle adulhood prepare people for a satisfying old age, attaining ego integrity requires a cintinuing effort to make life mor esecure, meaningful, ang gratifying for those who will go on after one dies.
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Joan Erickson
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believes that these attainments actually represent further development beyond ego interity (which focuses on satisfaction with one's past life) to an additional psychosocial stage that she call gerostranscendence.
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gerotranscendence
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(Joan Erickson) a cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward, bveyond the self.
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affect optimization
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(Labouvie-Vief') the ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion which contributes to their remarkable resilience.
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Reminiscence
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telling stories about people and events from their past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings
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Life review
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a kind of reminiscence in which the perwon calls up, reflects on, and reconsiders past experiences, contemplating their meaning with the goal of achieving greater self-understanding.
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dependency-support script
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a typical patern of interaction in which elders' dependency behaviors are attended to immediately, therby reinforcing those behaviors
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independence-ignore script
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typical pattern of interaction in which elders' independent behaviors are mostly ignored, thereby leading them to occur less often.
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people ________ and older have the highest suicide rate of all age groups
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65 and older
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disengagement theory
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mutual withdrqwal between elders and society take place in atnitcipation of death
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actvivity theory
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states that social barriers to engagement, not the desires of elders, cause declining rates of interaction. hwen older people lose certainroles (for example, through tetirement or widowhood), they try to find others in an effort to stay about as active and busy as they were in middle age.
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continuity theory
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does not view eldters' efforts to remain active in terms of simple replacement of lost scoial roles with new ones. rather, according to this view, most aging adults strive to maintain a personal system- an identity and a set of personality dispositions, interests, roles and skills- that promotes life stisfaction by ensuring consistency between their past and anticipated future.
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socioemotional selectivity theory
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a social theory of aging that states that the decline in social interation in late adulthood is due to physical and psychological changes, which oead elders to emphasize the emotion-regulating function of interation. consequently, they prefer familiar partners with whom they have developed pleasurable relationships.
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congregate housing
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an increasingly popular long-term care optionprovides a variety of support services, including meals in a common dining room, along with watchful oversight of residents with physical and mental disabilities.
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life care communities
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offer a range of housing alternativies, from independent or congreget housing to full nursing home car. For a large initial payment and additional monthly fees, life care guarantees that elders' changing needs will b emet inone plase as they age.
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social convoy
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a model of age-related changes in social networks, which views the individual within a cluster of relationships moving through life. close ties are in the inner circle, less close ties on the outsie. with age, people change places in the conboy, new ties are aded, and som are lost entirely
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secondary friends
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people who are not intimate but with whom they spend time occasionally, such as a group that meets for lunch, bridge, or museum tours.
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successful aging
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gains are maximized and losses minimized
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