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Middle Adulthood
Mid life crisis |
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Men in early 40s, women in late 40s
Life regrets
Not very common |
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| illness in middle adulthood |
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Cardiovascular = most common
cancer
osteoarthritis |
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| Religious response to death |
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African - Joined with ancestors, partly a time to celebrate for the living
Christianity - Soul remains and goes to heaven
Buddhist - life is over, there is no after life |
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Keep elder active and from feeling lonely
Usually spouse, friends and family |
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Continuing education - 20% enroll in a few classes, nothing too challenging (cooking, sewing, new language)
Volunteering - at churches or schools, normally they are happier & physically healthier
Become more active in religion and politics |
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alzheimers
strokes
medicine and nutrition and reverse dementia or attempt to prevent it |
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| Late Adulthood Changes in LTM |
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Explicit - facts, ideas, definitions get worse but emotions remain strong
Implicit - expertise, doesn't change |
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Late Adulthood
Primary and Secondary Aging |
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Primary Aging - universal. drier thinner skin, hair loses pigment, all hair thins out, distribution of fat falls down, shrinking of spine and muscules
Secondary - doesn't happen to everyone. Based on lifestyle activities |
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Middle Adulthood
Balancing Work and Family |
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- Less likely to skip work/quit/get fired
- less likely to travel with work
- Less likely to work overtime or strange shifts
- Family is used as a source of support
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Cognition in Middle Adulthood
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Fluid Intelligence - thinking quickly & analyze quickly begins to decrease
Crystallized - slow build up of knowledge, remember more historical facts and knowledge of how to do things -- increases |
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| Middle Adulthood personality |
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Openness - imaginative, independent (stays same)
Conscientiousness - organized, careful (increases)
extroversion - sociable, affectionate (increases)
agreeableness - soft hearted, trusting (increases)
neuroticism - worried, insecure (decrease)
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| Middle adulthood reproductive system |
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Men - testosterone declines, sperm decreases but can still father a child
Women- estrogen decreases, menstrual cycle becomes inconstant, eggs may not release, reproduction stops at 50s |
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experience of losing a loved one
avoidance, confrontation restoration |
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| specify treatment they do or do not what incase of a terminal illness, coma or near death situation |
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| calls up, reflects on and reconsiders past experience contemplating their meaning with goals of achieving greater self understanding |
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| naturally occurring, highly reactive chemicals that form in presence of oxygen and begin to break down body |
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| Socioemotional Selectivity theory of aging |
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| social interaction extends lifelong selection precesses |
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| Continuity Theory of Aging |
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| aging adults strive to maintain a personal system - an identity and a set of personality dispositions, interests, roles and skills that link their past to their anticipated future |
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| social barriers to engagement not desired of elders cause declining rates of interaction |
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| Disangagemenr Theory of aging |
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| Mutual withdrawal between elders and society takes place in anticipation of death |
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