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9 Cards in this Set
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Menopause |
The biological event in which a woman's production of sex hormones is sharply reduced |
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Generality |
The desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations |
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Stognation |
a discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past |
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Decremented Model of aging |
Idea that progressive physical and mental decline are inevitable with age |
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Ageism |
Prejudice or discrimination against the elderly |
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Senile Dementia |
Decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people in old age |
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Alzheimer's Disease |
A condition that destroys a person's ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care for herself or himself |
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Thanatology |
The study of dying and death |
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Hospice |
A facility designed to care for the special needs of dying |
