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| Hair becomes thinner and grayer with increasing age because of a decline in collagen. |
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| “Sarcopenia” refers to age-related loss of muscle mass and strength. This is a normal part of middle adulthood development, and, unfortunately, exercise cannot reduce this loss. |
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| In middle age, individuals begin to have trouble viewing objects far in the distance which forces them to wear glasses or contacts. |
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| The sleep problems commonly encountered by middle-aged people can be reduced by losing weight. |
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| The most common chronic disorders are heart disease for men and arthritis for women. |
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| Health status in middle age is strongly impacted by increases in chronic disease. |
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| Most women today become severely depressed after experiencing menopause. |
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| Testosterone therapy does not relieve men’s lower sex drive in middle age. |
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| One of the side effects of taking Viagra to increase sexual performance is seeing blue. |
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| Research shows that taking regular vacations can lengthen your life expectance. |
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Although the concept of generativity makes intuitive sense, research has not supported
its importance for midlife development. |
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| Recent research suggests that the struggle for identity does not end after adolescence. Rather, it continues throughout the other stages of Erikson’s theory (intimacy and generativity). |
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| Levinson’s theory emphasizes that success at midlife involves accepting both sides of polar struggles (such as being destructive vs. constructive) as being part of one’s self. |
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| When comparing middle-aged adults to young adults, research shows that middle-agers experience more overload stressors that involve juggling too many activities at once. |
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| Older adults experience more stress than both middle-aged and young adults. |
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| Although women do face pressure to remain young, recent research shows that the 50’s are considered to be the prime of life for many middle-aged women. |
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| If adult children return home, it usually works out best when parents lay the ground rules and children live by them. |
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| During middle adulthood, people show a decreased level of interest in friendships. |
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| Although most siblings fight a lot during childhood, during adulthood, siblings develop extremely close relationships. |
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| Younger grandparents are more likely to show the fun-seeking style of grandparenting than the formal style. |
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| The three main reasons that grandparents are now raising their grandchildren include drug use by their own children, a sense of loss for the time they did not spend with their own children, and a desire to be generative after retirement. |
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| The US boasts the highest life expectancy at birth today. |
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| The gender disparity according to longevity is particularly evident in people older than 85 of whom 70% are female. |
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| Recent research suggests that overeating helps destroy free radicals by flooding the cells with carbohydrates. |
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| Free-radical decay is thought to be one of the causes of aging which happens when oxidative damage occurs in the cell. |
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| Physical activity can increase brain volume in older adults. |
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| Because loss of muscle mass is a normal part of the aging process, exercise cannot slow down this process. |
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| When elderly adults in nursing homes were given more control over their daily lives, they felt happier and died sooner because there were finally at peace. |
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| Older people’s sustained attention abilities do not decline with age. |
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| Because implicit memories are hidden so much deeper below the cognitive surface, they are more likely to be forgotten than are explicit memories. |
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| Although intelligence centers on practical knowledge systems and solving everyday problems, research suggests that wisdom comes only when one has found a spiritual center and can help others. |
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| Erikson would argue that for a life review to end positively, an older adult must have completed early stages of adult development positively as well. |
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| Research suggests that because older adults’ lives are somewhat empty, it is beneficial for them to spend most of their time thinking about the joys of their past. |
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| When older adults engage in more “solitary” activities, they are happier and function better than do older adults who engage in “productive” activities. |
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| As people get older and their children move on, they have fewer needs to reach emotional goals and strive more to reach knowledge goals before the end of life. |
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| Seniors tend to have more positive and balanced emotional lives than do younger adults. |
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| The process of selective optimization with compensation is more likely to be effective when a person has experienced some form of loss in his or her life. |
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| Being pessimistic has no effect on longevity. |
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| Older adults are more satisfied with their marriages than are young and middle-aged adults. |
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| Volunteering in older adulthood is associated with a number of positive health and social outcomes. |
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| Older adults tend to report closer relationships with adult daughters compared to sons. |
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| Brain death from a neurological perspective includes having no heartbeat or respiration. |
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| The difference between being in a coma and being brain dead is that a comatose person may recover and still shows electrical activity in the brain. |
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| As with hospitals, the goal of hospices is to prolong life. The difference is that hospice care occurs at home. |
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| Kubler-Ross’s stage called “depression” is so severe that when dying people experience it, we should try at all costs to cheer them up and help them see the positive side of what remains of their lives. |
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| Although individual reactions to a diagnosis of terminal illness may vary widely, research suggests that denial is never a positive response style. |
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| Experts suggest that when conversing with a dying person, we focus not on preparation for death but on the strength of the individual and preparing mentally for the remainder of life. |
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| Grieving is best conceived of as a flexibly defined response to death based on whatever is considered appropriate within a cultural context. |
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| Studies on widows show that they decline financially when their spouse dies. |
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| Cremation is more popular in Canada and Japan than in the US where only 20% of bodies are cremated. |
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| Complicated grief typically involves enduring despair that is still unresolved after an extended period of time. |
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