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34 Cards in this Set
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Gerontologists |
Specialists who study aging |
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Ageism |
Prejudice and discrimination directed at older people |
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Fastest growing segment of US |
Old people |
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Dementia |
Serious memory loss accompanied by declines in other mental functioning |
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Alzheimer's |
Progressive brain disorder that produces loss of memory and confusion |
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Genetic programming theory |
Theory that our body's DNA genetic code contains a built in time limit for the reproduction of human cells |
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Plasticity |
Degrees to which a developing structure or behaviour is susceptible to experience |
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Erickson's final stage of life |
Ego-integrity-versus-despair-stage |
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Ego-integrity-versus-despair-stage |
Process of looking back over one's life, evaluating it, and coming to terms with it |
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Life review |
The point in life in which people examine and evaluate their lives |
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Best kind of social support |
Reciprocal relationships |
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Age range for SIDS |
2-4months |
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Death during late adulthood |
More realistic |
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1st to study death |
Elizabeth Kübler |
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Activity theory |
Theory suggesting that successful aging occurs when people maintain the interests, activities, and social interactions with which they were involved during middle age |
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Continuing-care community |
A community that offers an environment in which all the residents age of retirement age or older and need various levels of care |
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Skilled nursing facilities |
Settings that provide full time nursing care for people who have chronic illnesses or are recovering from a temporary medical condition |
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Institutionalism |
A psychological state in which people in nursing homes develop apathy, indifference, and a lack of caring about themselves |
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Stages of widowhood |
Preparation- learning adaptive behaviour, developing skills and abilities, anticipatory behaviour Grief and mourning- shock, intense pain, grief work, reality testing Adaptation- developing and utilising resources, reorganising roles and reference groups, reintegration, new images, attitudes, and values, new identity, new lifestyle, other outcomes |
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Elder abuse |
The physical or psychological mistreatment or neglect of elderly individuals |
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Functional death |
The absence of a heartbeat and breathing |
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Euthanasia |
Practice of assisting people who are terminally ill to die more quickly |
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Grief |
Emotional response to ones loss |
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Hospice care |
Care provided for the dying in places devoted to those who are terminally ill |
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Stages of dying |
Denial-reject diagnosis Anger-angry at everyone Bargaining- negotiate out of death (religious) Depression - feeling overwhelmed |
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Causes of children's deaths |
Accidents and homicide |
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Cataracts |
Cloudy or opaque areas on the lens of the eye that interfere with passing light |
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Glaucoma |
Pressure in the fluid of the eye increases |
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hypertension |
Chronic high blood pressure |
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Peripheral slowing hypothesis |
Theory suggesting that overall processing speed declines in the peripheral nervous system with increasing age |
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Generalized slowing hypothesis |
Theory that processing in all parts of the nervous system, including the brain, is less efficient |
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Semantic memory |
General knowledge and facts |
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Stages of grief |
Phase 1- shock, disbelief, numbness
Phase 2- confront the death and realise the extent of their loss,
Phase 3- accommodation stage-pick up the pieces and creat new identities |
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Stages of retirement |
Honeymoon- travel, new hobbies, do a lot of things and enjoy the free time Disenchantment- retirement is not as exciting as they thought, feel lack of purpose, bored Reorientation- take up engaging activities, look at new things Termination- re-enter work force |
