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Functional Age

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Actual competence and performance

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Life expectancy Crossover

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Surviving low SES minorities live longer than white majority

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Maximum lifespan

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122 years

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Instrumental Activities of Daily Life

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Necessary to conduct everyday business and require cognitive competemce

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2 brain areas that decrease

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Frontal lobe

Corpus callosum

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Cataracts

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Cloudy areas in the lens

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Macular Degeneration

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Light sensitive cells in the macula breakdown and vision is eventually lost

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Compression of morbidity

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As life expectancy extends, we want the average period of diminished vigor before detah to decrease

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Vitamins to protect bones

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Vitamin D, calcium

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Vitamins for immune system

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Zinc, B6, C, E

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Vitamins to prevent free radicals

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A, C, E

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Emphysema

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Loss of elasticity in lung tissue

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Primary Aging

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Genetically influenced declines that are inevitable

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Secondary Aging

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Declines due to hereditary defects and environmental influence

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Osteoarthritis

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Deteriorating cartilage on the ends of bones of frequently used joints

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Effects whole body. Autoimmune response resulting in inflammation of connective tissue

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Eriksons stage for late adulthood

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Integrity vs. Despair

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Integrity vs. Despair

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Coming to terms with life. Integrity means feeling whole complete and satisfied with achievements

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Pecks 3 tasks of Ego Integrity

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Ego differentiation
Body Transcendance
Ego transcendance

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Erikson’s Gerotrancedance

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Cosmic perspective directed forward and outward beyond self

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Cognitive Affective Complexity

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Coordination of negative and positive emotions

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Affect Optimization

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Ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative

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Life review

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Goal of self- understanding

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Dependancy- Support Script

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Dependant behaviours attended to immediately

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Independance- Ignore Script
Independant behaviours are mostly ignored
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Disengagement Theory
Mutual withdrawl of an old person and society in anticipation of death
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Activity Theory
Social Barriers to engagement, not desires of aging adult, cause declining rates of interaction
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Continuity Theory
Aging adults strive to maintain a personla system that promotes life satisfaction, ensuring continuity between past and future
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Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
Social interaction extends lifelong selection processes-- maintain a few close relationships
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% of falls resulting in serious injury
10%
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Dementia
Set of disorders occuring almost entirly in old age, thought and behaviour are impaired and everyday activites are interrupted
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% of seniors wth dementia
13%-- 50% by age 90
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Alzheimers
Most common dementia-- structural and chemical brain deterioration associated with gradual loss of thought and behaviour
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Alzheimers prevalence
8-10%
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Earliest symptoms of alzheimers
severe memory problems
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2 major structural changes in alzheimer brains
Neurofibrillary tangles | Amyloid plaques
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Neurofibrillary tangles
Bundles of twisted threads that are the product of collapsed neural structures that contain abnormal protein tau
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Amyloid plaque
Dense deposits of deteriorated protein called amyloid surrounded by clumps of dead nerve and glial cells
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Familial alzheimers
Early onset and progresses more rapidly
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Chromosomes in familial alz.
1 14 21
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Sporadic Alzheimers
Abnormal levels of Apo4 effects expression of gene that regulates insulin
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Apo4
Blood protein that carries cholesterol through body
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Immune Globulin
Blood product delivered intravenously containing antibodies against harmful amyloids-- improves cognition and reduces amyloid buildup
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Insulin nasal spray
Regulates neuronal use of glucose
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Alzheimer drugs increase neurotransmitters
ACTH | Serotonin
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Respite
Time away from providing care
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Cerebrovascular Dementia
Series of strokes leaves areas of dead brain cells, producing degeneration of mental ability following each stroke
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% of dementia cases that are cerebrovascular
10-20%
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% of healthcare on seniors
40%
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Assisted living
Homelike housing arrangement for seniors who require more care than at home, but less than nursing home-- more cost effective
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Fluid intelligence
Biologically based information processing skills-- limits ability when lost
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Crystallized intelligence
Culturally based knowledge-- only shows modest decline
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Selective optimization with compensation
Select personally valued activities to optimize returns from dimished energy- find ways to compensate for losses
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Episodic memory
Recall of everyday events-- worsens in old age
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Temporal memory
Recall of order in which events occurred suffers
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Implicit memory
Memory without conscious awareness
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Associative memory
Binding information into complex memories
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Associative memory deficit
Difficulty creating and retrieving links between pieces of information-- pairings
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Elaboration
Relating word pairs by generating a sentence linking them-- improves associative memory
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Remote meory
Very long-term recall
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Reminicence bump
Period of heightened autobiographical memory-- 10-30
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Prospective memory
Remembering to engage in planned actions in the future
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2 language production lossses
Retrieval of words from long term memory | Planning what to say and how to say it
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Wisdom
Breadth and depth of practical knowledge, emotional maturity and altruistic creativity
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Terminal decline
Acceleration of deterioration of cognitive functioning prior to death
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Life space
Where person spends days and nights. Potentially boundless but limited by time, money and health
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Mobility
Ability to move freely through life space
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Programmed movement
Executed sequence of contraction and relaxation of muscles
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Balance
Set of strategies employed to maintain stability
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Normal balance
Ability to correct an unexpected large displacement in a short time
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Instability
Impairment of ability to correct displacement while moving through space
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Slip
Acceleration and forward extension of leg, backward movement of trunk
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Trip
Flexion of extending limb, forward moveemnt of trunk
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Ichaemia
Insufficent blood supply to organ
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Drop attack
Unexpected and unexplained fall during walking, followed by a difficulty rising
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Falls
Force and speed of displacement exceed response of balance mechanisms
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Inverse care law
The more common a condition s, the less attention is devoted to it
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Dysuria
Painful urination
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Normal bladder function
100mL/hour
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Awareness of bladder 3 stages
Sensation of fulness- 300mL Discomfort- 600 Desperate- 750
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4 mechanisms of incontinence
High pressure Incompetent sphincter Obstruction of outlet Inert detrusor muscle
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Brain failure
Brain functions abnormally as a result of change in brain tissue or functional change in its nutrition
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Intrinsic brain failure
Develops slowly and runs a long progressive course
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Extrinsic brain failure
Develops rapidly and runs short reversible course

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