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actual competence and performance
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functional age
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# of years that an individual born in a particular year can expect to live, starting at any given age
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average life expectancy
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# of years of vigorous, healthy life an individual born in a particular year can expect
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active lifespan
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life expectancy is greater for ____ then ____
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women
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surviving members of low-SES ethnic minority groups live longer than members of the white majority
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life-expectancy crossover
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10%, basic self-care tasks required to live on ones own bathing, dressing, eating
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activites of daily living
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20%, tasks necessary to conduct busines of daily life and require cognitive ability, telephoning, shopping, paying bills
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instrumental activites of daily living
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genetic limit to length of life for a person free of external risk factors
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maximum lifespan
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middle to old age, cloudy areas in the lens increase, resulting in foggy vision and eventual blindness
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cataracts
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light sensitive cells in the retina break down vision blurs and leading cause of blindness in older adults
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macular degeneration
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immune system is more likely to malfunction by turing against normal body tissue
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autoimmune response
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breathing ceases for 10 seconds or longer resulting in brief awakening
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sleep apnea
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life expectancy extends we want the average period of diminished vigor before death to decrease a public health goal called
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compression of morbidity
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genetically influenced declines that affect all members of our species and take place in the context of overall good health
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primary aging
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declines due to heredity defects and negative enviornmental effects
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secondary aging
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involves weakend functioning of diverse organs and body systems
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frality
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most common, deteriorating cartilage on the ends of bones of frequently used joints
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osteoarthritis
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involves whole body, autoimmnue, inflammation of connective tissue
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rheumatoid arthritis
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set of disorders occuring almost entirely in old age which many aspects of thought and behavior are so impaired that everyday activites are disrupted
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dementia
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most common form of dementia, structural and chemical brain deterioration is associated with gradual loss of many aspects of thought and behavior
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Alzheimers disease
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series of strokes leaves arease of dead brain cells, producing step by step degeneration of mental ability, with each step occurring abruptly after a stroke
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cerebrovascular dementia
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narrowing their goals, they select personally valued activites to optimize returns from their diminishing energy
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selective optimization with compensation
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memory with conscious awareness
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implicit memory
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difficulty creating and retreiving links between pieces of info
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associative memory deficit
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very long term memory
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remote memory
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remembering to engage in planned actions in the future
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prospective memory
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refer to marked accelerations in deterioration of cognitive functioning prior to death
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terminal decline
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