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13 Cards in this Set
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Adult Day Care
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A day care center that provides health and social service to the older person.
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Ageism
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Deep & profound prejudice in American Society against older adults.
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Assisted Living
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Facility with various degrees of personal care assistance designed to meet the needs of an older person.
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Continuity Theory
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People maintain their values, habits, and behavior in old age.
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Dementia
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A global impairment of cognitive function that usually is progressive and may be permanent; interferes with normal social & occupational activities.
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Disengagement Theory
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Aging involves mutual withdrawl (disengagement) between the older person and others in the elderly person's environment.
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Geriatrics
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Medical care of the elderly
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Gerontology
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The study of aging & older adults
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Long-term Memory
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The repository for information stored for periods longer that 72 hours & usually weeks & years.
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Perception
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The ability to interpret the environment through the senses,
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Recent Memory
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Deals with activities of the recent past of minutes to a few hours.
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Sensory Memory
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Momentary perception of stimuli by the senses.
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Short-term Memory
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Information held in the brain for immediate use or what one has in mind at a given moment.
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