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46 Cards in this Set
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Osteoperosis |
Condition that results from a loss of calcium and other minerals. Results in porous bones |
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65-Year-Old changes in hair |
Grows thinner, goes gray, becomes coarser |
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Change in Taste |
Decline in taste buds. 1/3 buds as young adult |
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Sleep Apnea |
Person often stops breathing during sleep. Symptoms are snoring, gasping, and jumping up to breathe |
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Older adults and learning |
General decline in cognitive function. "Use it or lose it" |
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Senility |
Progressive mental deterioration, memory loss, and disorientation regarding time and place |
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Multi-Infarcts |
little strokes. destroys a small area of brain cells often a precursor of a stroke |
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James Fowler's Stages of Faith Development |
Stage 4:Personal Faith that can be reflected upon Stage 5:Seeks truth of faith in dialect, multidimensional manner Stage 6:Committed to selfless, universal goals |
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Alzheimer's Disease |
Degenerative disorder involves deterioration of brain cells |
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Stroke |
When a blood vessel is blocked or burst, a person experiences a stroke. Brain cells without blood will die. Know the signs |
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Interference Theory |
retrieval of the cue becomes less effective as more and newer items come to be classed or categorized in terms of it |
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Decay Theory |
Forgetting is due to deterioration of the memory traces in the brain |
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Memory Failure |
Can happen at any point in information processing. More likely to happen to geezers |
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Retrieval Process |
Process in which information is regathered from memory when needed |
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Storage Phase |
Process by which info is retained in memory until needed |
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Encoding Phase |
Process by which info is put into the memory system |
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Integrity Stage |
Looking back on life with satisfaction in having led a full life Or be sad af |
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Ego Differentiation |
Men and women must redefine their worth in terms of something other than work |
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Body Preoccupation |
Being able to get past an aging body and enjoying life |
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Ego Transcendence |
Having the belief that what you have created/accomplished will continue on after you pass |
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Reorganizer Type of Integrated Individual |
A well-functioning old person that is capable of staying active and 'young' |
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Armored-Defended Personality |
ambitious, achievement oriented individuals with high defenses against anxiety and with the need to retain tight control over events. |
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Holder-On Type of Armored-Defended Individual |
view aging as a threat and relentlessly cling to the patterns of middle age as long as possible |
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Apathetic Type of Passive-Dependent Individual |
disengaged from life, seem to "survive" but have medium to low levels of life satisfaction |
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Unintegrated Personality Type |
Show gross defects in psychological functions and overall deterioration in their thought processes. Low life satisfaction |
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Activity Theory of Aging |
The healthiest older people maintain fairly stable levels of activity |
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Social Exchange Theory of Aging |
Maximize benefits, minimize costs Aging individuals find themselves in a situation of increasing vulnerability because of deterioration in what they have to offer |
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Modernization Theory of Aging |
Less industrialized countries value their elders more than more industrialized ones |
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Elder Care |
Living at home alone Assisted Living services Live with Children Adult day care Institutional care retirement communities group homes |
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Caregiver burnout |
Caregivers of elderly get frustrated and no longer can/want to caregive |
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Retirement Communities |
community full of old people |
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Adult Day Care |
Like daycare for kids, for adults! |
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Retirement |
Leaving one's 'career' to engage in other paid activities, self-employment, or leaving the workforce completely |
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"Healthy Dying" |
Ending one's life before a terminal illness does |
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Suicide Ideas |
Observation or inference that someone might be moving in the direction of taking their life |
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Hospice Care |
Provides comfortable care for dying people |
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Brain Death |
No activity in the brain |
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Persistent Vegetative State |
Functions of brain stem remain intact, but the person has lost higher functionability |
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Palliative Care |
Attempt to relieve uncomfortable symptoms and is given along with treatment for the disease |
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Life Review |
Reflect and reminisce over one's life |
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Phases of Adult Bereavement |
1. Shock,numbness 2. Pining, yearning, depression 3. Moving on 4. Identity Reconstruction |
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Death of a Child |
Deep depression, anger, guilt, despair |
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Older Widowed Men in the US |
Tend to have the most difficult tie alone Far less likely than women to receive help Highest suicide rates |
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Bereavement Associated with the Death of an Adult's Parents |
Important personal and symbolic event Heightens their sense of mortality |
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Suicide of a Loved One |
Pretty shitty |
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Consequences of Grief for Survivors |
more vulnerable to mental and physical illness |