Chapter 10 Flashcards
(10 cards)
Define active leisure lifestyle?
a type of lifestyle that directly benefits health and helps to buffer
What is the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO)?
a federal government program that recruits volunteers, many of them who are retired executives, to serve as advisers and mentors in underdeveloped countries or with indigenous groups in Canada.
define contractors
people who have stopped at least one outdoor activity in the past year and have not learned any new activity since age 65, in keeping with the disengagement theory of aging.
define expanders
people who have not stopped any activities in the past year and have added at least one new outdoor activity since age 65, in keeping with the lifespan development theory of aging
Define Gero-Transcendence
in later life, the self begins to expand its boundaries and reflect on the meaning of human life.
what are institutes for learning in retirement (ILRs) or Lifelong learning institutes (LLIs)?
programs that offer people a variety of educational formats from lectures to seminars, to travel courses, with topics usually decided on by the group.
what is a road scholar?
a not-for-profit company that promotes lifelong learning by organizing educational and cultural tours aimed at people in their 50s and older (originally based on a combination of university life and European concept of hosteling)
what is self-efficacy?
what people believe they can do; people with a strong sense of efficacy take on more challenging tasks and put out more effort
What is structural lag?
a mismatch between changes in the aging process (e.g. better health for older people, more active lifestyles) and the roles and places in the social structure that can meet the needs of this new older person
define weak social ties
these differ from the intimacy of family and friendship ties; weak social ties linked people from diverse backgrounds and expose a person to new views and opinions
