Development Through The Lifespan - Chapter 18

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In Erikson's theory, the psychological conflict of late adulthood, which is resolved positively when elders feel whole, complete, and satisfied with their achievements, having accepted their life course as something that had to be the way it was.

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ego integrity versus despair

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After retirement, aging people who have invested heavily in their careers must find other ways of affirming their self-worth - through family, friendship, and community roles that are just as satisfying as work life.

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Peck's ego differentiation vs work-role preoccupation

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Older adults must transcend physical limitations- declines in appearance, physical capacities, and resistance to disease- by emphasizing the compensating rewards of cognitive, emotional, and social powers

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Peck's body transcendence vs body preoccupation

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As spouse, siblings, friends, and peers die, the elderly must find a way to face the reality of death constructively, through investing in a longer future than their own lifespan. Although the generative years of early and middle adulthood prepare people for satisfying old age, attaining ego integrity requires a continuing effort to make life more secure, meaningful, and gratifying for those who will go on after one dies.

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Peck's ego transcendence vs ego preoccupation

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According to Joan Erikson, a psychosocial stage beyond ego integrity, which characterizes the very old, that involves a cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward, beyond the self. Evident in heightened inner calm and contentment.

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gerotranscendence

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The ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion. An emotional strength of late adulthood.

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affect optimization

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the process of telling stories about people and events from the past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings.

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reminiscence

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the process of calling up, reflecting on, and reconsidering past experiences, contemplating their meaning with the goal of achieving greater self-understanding

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life review

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Period in which older adults form an enlarged vision of an all-inclusive human community. They act to bring it about by standing up against persecution and injustice and by promoting a common good that serves the needs of diverse groups. Great religious leaders, such as Gandhi and MLK Jr., illustrate conjunctive faith.

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Folwer's Conjunctive stage

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a typical pattern of interaction in which elders' dependency behaviors are attended to immediately, thereby reinforcing those behaviors.

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Dependency- support script

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a typical pattern of interaction in which elders' independent behaviors are mostly ignored, thereby leading them to occur less often.

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independence-ignore script

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true or false: people age 65 and older have the highest suicide rate of all age groups.

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true

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a social theory of aging that states that the decline in social interaction in late adulthood is due to mutual withdrawal between elders and society in anticipation of death.

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disengagement theory

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a social theory of aging that states that social barriers to engagement, not the desires of elders, cause declining rates of social interaction in late adulthood. When older people lose certain roles, they try to find others in an effort to stay as active and busy as they were in middle age, so as to preserve life satisfaction.

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activity theory

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a social theory of aging that states that in their choice of everyday activities and social relationships, older adults strive to maintain a personal systems- an identity and a set of personality dispositions, interests, roles and skills- that ensures consistency between their past and anticipated future and, thus, promotes life satisfactions.

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continuity theory

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a social theory of aging that states that the decline in social interaction in late adulthood is due to physical and psychological changes, which lead elders to emphasize the emotion-regulating function of interaction. Consequently, they prefer familiar partners which whom they have developed pleasurable relationships.

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socioemotional selectivity theory

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housing for elderly that provides a variety of support services, including meals in a common dining room, along with watchful oversight of elders with physical and mental disabilities

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congregate housing

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housing for elderly that offers a range of alternatives, from independent or congregate hosing to full nursing home care. For a large initial payment and additionally monthly fees, guarantees that elders' needs will be met in one place as they age.

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life care communities

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% of North American senior citizens living in a residential community

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5%

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a model of age-related changes in social networks, which views the individual within a cluster of relationships moving through life. Close ties are in the inner circle, less close ties on the outside. With age, people change places in the convoy, new ties are added, and some are lost entirely.

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social convoy

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Despite high divorce rates, 1 in every 4 or 5 first marriages in North America is expected to last at least ____ years.

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50

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About ____ % of older North Americans have remained unmarried and childless throughout their lives.

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5%

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What contributes to the fact that many women feel less need to remarry?

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kinkeeper role and intimate friendships

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Widows make up one - ______ of the edlerly population in the US & Canada.

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third

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___ % of women age 65+ are widowed, compared to only 15% of US men & 28% of Canadian men.

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50%

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people who are not intimates but with whom the individual spends time occassionally, such as a group that meets for lunch, bridge, or museum tours.

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secondary friends

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financial abuse, psychological abuse & ______ are the most commonly reported types of elder maltreatment.

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neglect

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abandonment of elders with severe disabilities by family caregivers, usually at hospital emergency rooms.

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granny dumping

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part time jobs that retirees take that serve as transitions between a full-time career and retirement.

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bridge jobs

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aging in which gains are maximized and losses minimized.

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successful aging

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grandchildren become an _________ important source of emotional meaning for elders in the last decade or two of life.

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increasingly

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most elder abusers are _____ ______

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family members

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30 to 40% of North American retirees reenter the labor force in some capacity, usually part-time, within _____ year(s) after retirement.

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1 year

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Elders political involvement may stem from a deep desire for:

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a safer and more secure world for future generations.

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volunteering grants elders a continuing sense of making valuable contributions to society, and many sustain high commitment through their _______.

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seventies