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| this condition occurs around age 60, the lens loses its capacity to adjust to objects at varying distances entirely. |
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| a disease in which poor fluid drainage leads to a buildup of pressure within the eye, damaging the optic nerve |
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| hearing loss, 14% of north americans suffer from this between the ages of 45 and 64. |
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| midlife transition in which fertility declines. |
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| the end of menstruation and reproductive capacity. |
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| low daily doses of estrogen. either estrogen alone (estrogen replacement therapy) or estrogen plus progesterone (hormone replacement therapy) |
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| a condition when age-related bone loss is severe |
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| extreme competitiveness, ambition, impatience, hostility, angry outbursts, and a sense of time pressure. |
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| three personal qualities--control, commitment, and challenge, comprise this |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| refers to skills that depend on accumulated knowledge and experience, good judgement, and mastery of social conventions--abilities acquired because they are valued by the individual's culture. |
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| depends more heavily on basic information-processing skills--ability to detect relationships among visual stimuli, speed of analyzing information, and capacity of working memory. |
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| as neurons in the brain die, breaks in neural networks occur. brain adapts by forming bypasses, or new synaptic connections that go around the breaks but are less efficient. |
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| suggests that older adults experience greater loss of information as it moves through the cognitive system. as a result, the whole system must slow down to inspect and interpret the information. |
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| practical problem solving |
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| requires people to size up real-world situations and analyze how best to achieve goals that have a high degree of uncertainty. |
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