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| ego integrity vs. despair |
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| in erikson's psychosocial theory, involves coming to terms with one's life |
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| a cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward, beyond the self |
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| the ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion |
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| telling stories about people and events from their past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings |
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| a person calls up, reflects on, and reconsiders past experiences, contemplating their meaning with the goal of achieving greater self-understanding. |
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| dependency-support script |
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| dependent behaviors are attended to immediately |
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| independence-ignore script |
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| independent behaviors are mostly ignored. |
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| mutual withdrawal between elders and society takes place in anticipation of death |
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| social barriers to engagement, not the desires of elders, cause declining rates of interaction. when older people lose certain roles, they try to find others in an effort to stay about as active and busy as they were in middle age. |
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| rather than maintaining a certain activity level, most aging adults strive to maintain a personal system that promotes life satisfaction by ensuring consistency between their past and anticipated future. |
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| socioemotional selectivity theory |
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| social interaction extends lifelong selection processes |
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| an increasingly popular long-term care option which provides a variety of support services, including meals in a common dining room and watchful oversight of residents. |
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| offer a range of housing alternatives, from independent housing to full nursing home care. |
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| an influential model of changes in our social networks as we move through life. |
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| people who are not intimates but with whom they spend time occasionally. |
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| gains are maximized an losses are minimized |
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