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14 Cards in this Set
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activity theory |
The view that elderly people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres--with relatives, friends, and community groups--and become withdrawn only unwillingly, as a result of ageism. |
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compulsive hoarding |
The urge to accumulate and hold on to familiar objects and possessions, sometimes to the point of their becoming health and/or safety hazards. This impulse tends to increase with age. |
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disengagement theory |
The view that aging makes a person's social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity. |
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integrity versus despair |
The final stage of Erik Erikson's developmental sequence, in which older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community. |
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positivity effect |
The tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones. |
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self theories |
Theories of late adulthood that emphasize the core self, or the search to maintain one's integrity and identity. |
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socioemotional selectivity theory |
The theory that older people prioritize regulation of their own emotions and seek familiar social contacts who reinforce generativity, pride, and joy. |
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stratification theories |
Theories that emphasize that social forces, particularly those related to a person's social stratum or social category, limit individual choices and affect a person's ability to function in late adulthood because past stratification continues to limit life in various ways. |
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age in place |
To remain in the same home and community in later life, adjusting but not leaving when health fades. |
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naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) |
A neighborhood or apartment complex whose population is mostly retired people who moved to the location as younger adults and never left. |
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filial responsibility |
The obligation of adult children to care for their aging parents. |
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activities of daily life (ADLs) |
Typically-identified as five tasks of self-care that are important to independent living: eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, and transferring from a bed to a chair. The inability to perform any of these tasks is a sign of frailty. |
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frail elderly |
People over age 65, and often over age 85, who are physically infirm, very ill, or cognitively disabled. |
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instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs) |
Actions (for example, paying bills and driving a car) that are important to independent living and that require some intellectual competence and forethought. The ability to perform these tasks may be even more critical to self-sufficiency than ADL ability. |
