Chapter 23 Flashcards
Late Adulthood- Biosocial Development
A prejudice in which people are categorized and judged solely on the basis of their chronological age. Considers people as part of a category and not as individuals, can target people of any age.
Ageism
A condescending way of speaking to older adults that resembles baby talk, with short, simple sentences, exaggerated emphasis, repetition, and a slower rate and higher pitch than normal speech.
Elderspeak
_________threat can be as debilitating for the aged as for other groups.
Stereotype
The multidisciplinary study of old age.
Gerontology
The medical specialty devoted to aging
Geriatrics
A shift in the proportions of the population of various ages. Once there were 20 times more children than older people
Demographic shift
People who’ve lived 100 years or more. The fastest-growing age group
Centenarians
A graphic representation of population as a series of stacked bars in which each age cohort is represented by one bar, with the youngest cohort at the bottom
Demographic pyramid
Healthy, vigorous, financially secure older adults (those aged 60 to 75) who are well integrated into the lives of their families and communities.
%?
Young-old (70%)
Older adults (those aged 75 to 85) who suffer from physical, mental, or social deficits. %..?
Old-old (20%)
Elderly adults (those over age 85) who are dependent on others for almost everything, requiring supportive services such as nursing-home care and hospital stays.%…?
Oldest-old (10%)
The universal and irreversible physical changes that occur to all living creatures as they grow older.
Primary aging
The specific physical illnesses or conditions that become more common with aging but result from poor health habits, genetic vulnerability, and other influences that vary from person to person.
Secondary aging
Disease that involves the heart and the circulatory system
Cardiovascular disease
Older adults spend more time in bed, take longer to fall asleep, wake up more often, and feel drowsy in the daytime more often.
Individual Compensation: Sleep
Older adults drive more slowly, may not drive at night or when there is bad weather and may give up driving altogether.
Social Compensation: Driving
A shortening of the time a person spends ill or infirm before death; accomplished by postponing illness.
Compression of Morbidity
With age, bones become more porous, losing calcium and strength. This can lead to ______________ where bones can be broken easily.
osteoporosis
Most common liability elders experience from falling is fear so they reduced their _______ which caused them to become sicker.
activity
Only _____%of people over age 65 see well without glasses.
Taste, smell, touch, and hearing are also impaired (e.g., by age __, the average man is almost deaf, as are about half of the women).
10% ; 90
3 most vision impairments in the elderly
Cateracts - age 50 10%
Glaucoma 1% in 70s
Macular degeneration
A process by which the human body wears out due to the passage of time and exposure to stressors.
Wear and Tear
A mechanism in the DNA of cells that regulates the aging process by triggering hormonal changes and controlling cellular reproduction and repair.
Genetic clock
The oldest possible age to which members of a species can live, under ideal circumstances. For humans, that age is approximately 122 years
Maximum life span
