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30 Cards in this Set
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Bean Pole Family Structure |
the phenomenon of four or five generations of a family surviving at one time |
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Companionate Grandparenting |
reported to have an easygoing, friendly style of interaction with their grandchildren |
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Convoy Model of Social Relations |
model stating that people move through life surrounded by a group of people they know through exchange in social support |
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Extended Family |
the network outside th nuclear family |
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Intergenerational solidarity |
a measure of family closeness |
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Involved grandparenting |
grandparents who take an active role in rearing their grandchildren, behave more like parents than grandparents |
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Nuclear family |
the family unit consisting of husband, wife, and children |
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Remote grandparenting |
grandparents who see their grandchildren infrequently and have a relationship that is mainly ritualistic and symbolic |
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Social support system |
the network o relatives, friends, and organizations that provide emotional support, which helps in managing activities of daily living |
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Verticalization |
the increase in family linkages between preceding and subsequent generations because of increased life expectancy coupled with reduced fertility |
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Aging in place |
elderly people live at home or in a community setting rather than a nursing home; never want to leave |
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Migratory stream |
the migration of people from one region to another |
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Bridge jobs |
jobs that span the period between full-time employment in a career job and permanent retirement |
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Contingent work |
an arrangement in which workers are not apart of the firm's permanent workforce but are hired only to do a specific job on a temporary basis |
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Defined benefit |
a pension plan in which the benefit level is based on years of service and prior earnings |
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Defined contribution |
a savings account with certain tax advantages |
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Phased retirement |
any arrangement that allows older workers to reduce their responsibilities and ease gradually into full retirement |
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Sequential retirement |
a husband and wife retire in sequence, one retires first while the other continues to work |
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Compression of morbidity thesis |
theory that improvements in health care and prevention will compress the years that an individual will be disabled into the last few years of the life span |
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Convergence teory |
theory of aging that views old age as a great leveler |
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Epidemiologic transition |
a shift in the proportion of deaths among the young and the elderly |
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Theory of cumulative disadvantage |
theory that people who begin life with greater resources continue to have opportunities to accumulate more of them while those who begin with few resources fall further behind |
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Activities of daily living (ADLs) |
measure of need for help with basic functions (ex. eating, bathing, dressing walking) |
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Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) |
measure of need for help with activities such as keeping track of money, doing light housework, taking medicine, and running errands |
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Caregiver burden |
difficulty in managing the specific tasks to be performed in caring for the frail elderly |
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Caregiver stress |
the subjective appraisal of the strain on the caregiver |
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Role reversal |
reversal of parent-child role, with the child becoming the decision maker |
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Total institution |
central features are a breakdown of the normal barriers that separate the main spheres of life and the handling of many human needs by a bureaucratic organization |
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Individual retirement account (IRA) |
way of using the tax code to encourage people to save for retirement |
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Vesting rules |
these specify a minimum number of years a worker is required to be employed by a firm to be eligible for a pension |
