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Death, Dying, Bereavement & Grieving Flashcards

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Baltes suggests that old age can be defined by 5 criteria which are?

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Sociological/familial (retirement) 
Biological (frailty/ disability) 
Longevity/ Demographic (final decade before natural death)
Cognitive (Decline)
Institutional (nursing home)
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Four decades of later life are?

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Young-old adults: 60-69
Third age adults: 70-79
Fourth age: 75-85
Old-Old: Physical and mental problems

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By 2050 people will live to the age of?

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92/ 95 (men/women)

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Ageism and negative stereotypes associated with ageing are as strong as they were?

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50 years ago

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Is ageism declining?

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No

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What are the best known visible signs of ageing in men?

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balding
greying
wrinkling
dropping skin

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Why do you get wrinkles?

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skin looses elasticity and the muscle and fatty tissue disappear
skin dries out

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ARTERIOSCLEROSIS IS?

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A build up of plaque on the inside walls of arteries

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What is the leading cause of death in Australia?

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Heart disease and stroke (Arteriosclerosis)

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What happens to your muscles as they age?

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Increase in size and strength until 39

Loose elasticity

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What is Lipofuscin?

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age pigment- oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids

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What is collagen?

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Connective tissue in the skin, muscles and joints between bones

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Collagen accounts for age related problems such as?

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Pain and stiffness of joints
Slower healing of wounds
Loss of elasticity in the skin

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What hormonal changes to women in their mid to late 50s experience?

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Menopause/ decrease in oestrogen
Drying skin
Increase in hair
Appearance

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What happens to the skeleton of the adult body each year?

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10% rebuilds itself

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The ageing of bones is due to?

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The calcium being absorbed at a faster rate than it is replaced

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What does the ageing of bones increase the likelihood of?

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Fractures

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The most common physical changes in old age are related to?

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Vision and hearing

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What are the most common physical changes?

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hearing loss
less sensitive to light
increased farsightednes

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Adults up to the age of 60 can still increase cognitively through?

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comprehension
new information
new skills
reasoning and verbal memory

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Some intellectual abilities decline in late adulthood including?

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manipulation of ideas and symbols quickly
active thinking and reasoning
mental effort

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With increasing age it becomes most difficult mentally to?

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organise elements of a problem and manipulate more than 1 idea at once

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What is the difference between episodic memory and semantic memory?

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Short term and narrative memory

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With increased age there is more tendency to recall _____ information as being ____.

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false

true

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Cognitive changes generally occur due to?
diseases drugs illnesses un-stimulating life
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What cognitive processes are facilitated by age?
Dialectical thinking | Wisdom
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What tis dialectical thinking?
Knowledge is relative and not absolute - resolutions come from weighing up options
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What is Wisdom?
expertise in the fundamental pragmatics of life | rich knowledge
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What is SOC
Selective Optimisation Compensation
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What does Ryff consider to be the tenets of successful ageing?
``` interested in others accepts change continued growth enjoys life sense of humour family experiences confident tolerant self-aware ```
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What are the 3 theories that account for social process of ageing?
disengagement theory activity theory socio-emotional selectivity theory
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The disengagement theory suggests that?
Individuals deliberately divorce themselves from others because of changes in thought patterns
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The disengagement theory os not supported because?
Small, narrow sample | Promotes discrimination
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What is the Activity theory?
Continued social commitment and involvement is vital to successful ageing
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What is the Socio-Emotional selectivity theory?
Learn to regulate emotions to enjoy the remaining time left - priority to deepening relationships and developing expertise
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U shaped curve of marital satisfaction suggests?
Kids decline it and then when they live satisfaction increases
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What is the 'Onset of old age'?
an increased awareness that death is approaching
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What is the 'terminal drop'?
Sudden decline in mental functioning before death
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Which of Erikson's crises are associated with the end of life?
Ego-integrity vs despair
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What does the resolution of the crisis of integrity vs despair depend on?
cultural death system
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What did Kastenbaum suggest were the 5 components involved in the system of death?
``` People Places/ context Times - funerals/ anniversaires Objects- coffins Symbols ```
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Life expectancy has increased from 47 years to?
78 years
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Where do the majority of people die these days?
Hospitals/ Institutions (80%)
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How does death affect infants?
Little awareness but adversely affects development if caregiver lost
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How is death perceived by children (3-5)?
Magical- can be brought back to life Baddies and those who want to die do Blame themselseves
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What moral construct can be used to explain children's process of blaming themselves for someone else's death?
The belief of immanent justice - they did something bad so are being punished
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How do children in middle childhood perceive death?
It exists but only to some | hypersensitive - fear of loosing others (if lost someone close to them)
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How do you support children when teaching about death?
sensitive/ sympathy encourage expression of own feelings share memories be open
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In adolescence death is perceived as?
Abstract concept Described metaphorically (dark/ transition) Pinned to religious / philosophical views
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Adulthood perceives death as?
More realistic | Fear intensifies at middle age
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What are the 5 stages in the process of dying according to Kubler-Ross?
``` Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance ```
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Why are stage models of death criticised?
Don't account for sudden death Don't account for men suffering more than women Don't account for culture/ surrounding Don't account for personal coping (personality/ cognition)
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Six months after loss, individuals are more able to accept the loss as ________, are more ________ about the future, and more likely to ______ ________ in day to day life.
reality optimistic function competently
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WHat is prologued grief?
unresolved/ extended grief - numbness, detachment
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What is disenfranchised grief?
Grief for a socially ambiguous individual eg. ex-spouse, abortion, stigmatised death (HIV)
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Bereavement consists of 2 dimensions which are?
Loss of oriented stressors | Restoration of Oriented stressors
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What are loss oriented stressors?
Stressors that focus on the deceased
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What are restoration oriented stressors?
secondary stressors that come as indirect outcome of a loss (changing identity - widow)
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What are 4 factors affecting the bereavement process?
Nature of relationship circumstances of death social support multiple stressors
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How does social support change the stress of death?
When reactions of other are also sad= support | Rituals help
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What are the 7 paradoxes associated with development?
``` develomental vs non-developmental continuity vs discontinuity nature vs nurture activity vs passivity cognitive vs affective macroscopic vs microscopic general vs particular ```

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