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Basic self-care tasks

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Activities of daily living

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Tasks associated with daily life that require cognitive competence

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Instrumental activities of daily living

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Most common form of dementia

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Alzheimer’s

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Set of disorders in which serious memory loss is accompanied by declines in other mental functioning

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Dementia

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Increased risk for ____ in late adulthood

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Cataracts

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Produces loss of memory and other aspects of thought and behavior

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Alzheimer’s

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How does brain change in late adulthood?

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Becomes smaller and lighter

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How is blood flow to the brain impacted in late adulthood?

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Reduced

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Which gender is expected to live longer?

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Women

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How is Alzheimer’s diagnosed?

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Through exclusion

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Structural changes that occur in the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient

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Neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques develop

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The natural physical decline brought about by aging

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Biological aging

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Product of environmental influences and health habits

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Secondary aging

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Period of heightened biographical memory

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Recall most events that occurred from ages 10-30

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Involves telling stories about events from the past

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Reminiscence

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An examination and evaluation of one’s life

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Life review

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Proposes that successful aging occurs when people maintain interests, activities, and social interactions

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Activity theory

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Suggests that there is a gradual withdrawal from the world

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Disengagement theory

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Argues that elders adjust to aging by engaging in the same kinds of activities that interested them in earlier years

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Continuity theory

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Offer an environment in which all the residents are of retirement age or older and need various levels of care

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Continuing care communities

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Provide full-time nursing care for people who have chronic illnesses or are recovering from a temporary medical condition

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Skilled nursing facilities

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Rates of cohabitation ____ in seniors

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Increase

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Refers to the physical or psychological mistreatment or neglect of elderly

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Elder abuse

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Period of retirement where people engage in activities that were hindered by work

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Honeymoon period

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Conclude that retirement is not what they thought it would be
Disenchantment
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Reconsider options and become engaged in more fulfilling activities
Reorientation
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Feel fulfilled in this new phase of life
Retirement routine
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Adolescents understand the finality of death but don't think it can happen to them
Illusion of invulnerability
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At what age do children better understand the finality of death?
Around 5 years old
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Absence of heartbeat and breathing
Clinical (functional) death
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Cessation of all signs of brain activity
Brain death
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Highest suicide rates among elderly
White men, aged 85 and older
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True or false - women report higher levels of fear surrounding death than men
TRUE
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Kubler-Ross's Stages of Grief
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
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Life sustaining treatment is withheld
Passive euthanasia
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One acts, at a patient's request, to end suffering before a natural end to life
Active euthanasia
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Suicide where people simply let themselves die by not caring for themselves
Submissive death
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An indirect form of suicide by engaging in high-risk activities
Suicidal erosions
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Written statement of desired medical treatment should one become incurably ill
Advance medical directives
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Designates what medical treatments people do or do not want if they cannot express their wishes
Living will
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Authorizes another person to make healthcare decisions in one's behalf
Durable power of attorney
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Directs health care workers not to use resuscitation if the patient experiences cardiac or pulmonary arrest
DNR
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Dying person stays at home and receives treatment
Home care
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Care for the dying provided in places devoted to those who are terminally ill
Hospice care
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Experience of losing a loved one by death
Bereavement
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Intense physical and psychological distress
Grief
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Culturally specified expression of the bereaved person's thoughts and feelings
Mourning
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Stages of the grief process
Avoidance, confrontation, accommodation
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At age 35, _____ become the leading cause of death
Illness and disease
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Assessment of an event to determine whether its implications are positive, negative, or neutral
Primary appraisal
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Assessment of whether one's resources are adequate to overcome the potential stressor
Secondary appraisal
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Manage stress by directly changing the situation to make it less stressful
Problem focused coping
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Involves the conscious regulation of emotion
Emotion focused coping
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Involves unconscious strategies that distort or deny the true nature of the situation
Defensive coping
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True or false - more than half of college students are women and women have a slightly higher graduation rate
TRUE
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Refers to less risk-taking and more focus on supporting family
Maturation reform
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Age-related expectations for major life events
Social clock
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Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
Intimacy, passion, commitment
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Relates to closeness, affection, and connectedness
Intimacy
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Relates to sex, physical closeness, and romance
Passion
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Contains the cognition that one loves another person and the determination to maintain that love
Commitment
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Tendency for men to marry women who are slightly younger and lower in status and vise versa
Marriage gradient
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Living together without being married
Cohabitation
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Average age of first marriage
27 women, 29 men
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Partners relate as equals, sharing power and authority
Egalitarian marriage
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Career choices are made, and discarded without regard to skills, abilities, or job opportunities
Fantasy period
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Begin to think about the requirements of various jobs and how their own abilities might fit with them
Tentative period
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Explore specific career options through actual experience on the job or through training
Realistic period
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Oriented toward the theoretical and abstract
Intellectual
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Results in loss of bone mass, brittle bones
Osteoporosis
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A condition in which pressure in the fluid of the eye increases
Glaucoma
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The ability to hear high frequency sound
Presbycusis
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Phases of menopause - fluctuation of hormone levels
Premenopausal
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Estrogen levels decline and extreme variations in timing of menstrual cycle occurs, some women experience hot flashes
Perimenopausal
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Hormones drop to consistently low levels, menstruation has ceased for an entire year
Postmenopausal
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Fluid intelligence ____ with age, but crystalized intelligence _____
declines, holds steady
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Sees personality development in terms of universal stages, tied to a sequence of age-related crises
Normative-crisis
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The events in an adult's life, rather than age per se, determines the course of personality development
Life event
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Refers to middle adults who feel squeezed between the needs of their children and their aging parents
Sandwich generation
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Do not see grandchildren often
Remote relationship
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Maintain frequent contact and warm interaction with grandchildren
Companionate relationship
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Directly involved in the everyday care of grandchildren
Involved relationship
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Batter becomes upset and shows dissatisfaction through verbal abuse
Tension-building stage
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Physical abuse occurs
Acute battering incident stage
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Batterer expresses remorse
Loving contrition stage
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Must redefine themselves in ways that do not relate to work roles
Redefinition of self versus preoccupation with work role
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Learn to cope with and move beyond physical changes
Body transcendence versus body preoccupation
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Come to grips with coming death
Ego transcendence versus ego preoccupation
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Medical problems caused by the interaction of psychological, emotional, and physical difficulties
Psychosomatic disorders
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The tendency to marry someone who is similar in age, race, and other basic demographic characteristics
Homogamy
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True or false - couples who cohabit before they are engaged to be married are more prone to divore
TRUE
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True or false - arrival of a baby is associated with significant marital strain
FALSE
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Drives people to obtain tangible rewards
Extrinsic motivation
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Causes people to work for their own enjoyment
Intrinsic motivation
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The silent killer
Hypertension
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Which type of personality associated with heart disease?
Type A
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Recollections of personal events or episodes
Episodic memories
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Represent memory for general knowledge
Semantic memories
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Young adults who return to live in the homes of their parents
Boomerang children
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