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| Clinical study & treatment of older people |
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| Aging based on a person's years lived from birth |
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| Physical changes that reduce the efficency of organ systems, such as lungs, heart and circulatory system |
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| The efficiency & functional abilites of an individual's organ systems, as well as physical activity levels. |
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| Changes that occur in sensory & perceptual processes, cognitive abilities. |
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| Individual's changing roles & relationships with family, friends and other informal supports. |
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| Changes that take place inthe organism throughout the life span-good, bad & neutral |
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| Changes that occur that reflect normal declines in all organ systems, especially after 30 |
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| Group of people who were born at approx. the same time & share common experiences. |
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| Model of viewing aging as a positive experience of continued growth & participation in activities, regardless of decline. |
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| Person-environment perspective |
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| A model for understanding the behavior of people based on the idea that persons are affected by personal characteristics. |
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| A comception or description of the way persons perform, focusing on their abilities versus the demands of the environment |
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| Demands that social and physical environments make on the individual to adapt, respond or change. |
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| The average length of time persons in a given society and subgroups defined by age, gender, race and ethnicity are expected to live. |
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| Biologically programmed maximum number of years that each species can expect to live. |
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| Given a certain length of length of life. |
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| Active versus dependent life expectancy |
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| A way of describing expected length of life. |
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| The collection of data on people of different ages at one time. |
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| The study of the same person over a period of months or years. |
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| Baltimore Longitudinal Studies of Aging |
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| A federally funded longitudinal study that has examined physiological, cognitivie and personality chagnes in healthy middle-aged and older men since 1958, and in women since 1978. |
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| Joint effect of two variables on an outcome of interest. |
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| Sequential research designs |
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| Combine the strenghts or cross-sectional & longitudinal research designs |
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| Two or more cohorts are followed for a period of time so that measurements are taken of different cohorts at the same ages but at different points in time. |
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| Useful for distinguishing between age & time of measurements or historical factors. can be used to determine if changes obtained are due to aging or to historical factors. |
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| Divisions among people for purposes of maintaining distinctions between different strata by the significant characteristics of those strata. |
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| Skipped generation households |
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| Grandparents assume responsibility for the day to day care of grandchildren |
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| Process of integrating two cultures into one's lifestyle. |
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| The ability of a given organ to perform its normal function, compared with its function under conditions of illness, disability and aging. |
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| Suggest that the organism simply wears out over time. |
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| Suggests that aging occurs as cells slow their number of replications. |
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| Focuses on the deteriorating efficiency of the immune systems as the cause of many normal age-related declines and chronic diseases associated with aging. |
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| Series of protective DNA structures at the end of human chromosomes. |
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| The enzyme responsible for rebuilding telomeres |
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| Special case of the cross-linkage theory of aging that posits that free radicals may produce DNA mutations. |
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| Mitochondrial DNA mutation theory |
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| The hypothesis that aging is caused by damage or mutation of DNA in the mitochondria of cells. |
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| Idea that the length of healthy life can be extended and some diseases associated with aging eliminated. |
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| A disease that makes the bones less dense, more porous and hence more prone to fractures. |
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| The body system that signals one's position in space. |
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| Maximum amount of oxygen that can be brought into the lungs with a deep breath, declines as people age. |
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| Abnormal swelling in veins that are under high pressure. |
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| Loss of elasticity, the arterial and vessel walls become increasingly lined with fat. Which makes it more difficult for blood to be pumped through the vessels and arteries. |
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| Level of blood pressure during the contraction phase of the heart. Top number 120/80 |
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| Level of blood pressure during the time when the chambers of the heart are filling with blood. Bottom number 120/80 |
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| Injuries to the bones, muscles, and joints. |
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| Rate at which blood is filtered through the kidneys. |
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| Diminished ability to retain urines; loss of bladder control. |
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| Chronic inflammation of the stomach lining. |
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| Gradual cessation of the menstrual cycle, which is related to the loss of ovarian function; considered to have occurred after 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period. |
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| Implies that aging results in a significant decline of the immune system, increasing the older person's suseptibility to infectious disease and risk of death. |
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| Severe loss of nueurons may be less significant than changes in brain tissue, blood flow, and receptor organs. |
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| Behaviors associated with sleep |
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| State of complete physical, mental and social well-being. |
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| The presence or absence of disease and the degree of disability in an individual's level of functioning. |
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| Activities of Daily Living(ADLs) |
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| Summarize an individual's performance in personal care tasks. |
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| Instrumental Activites of Daily Living(IADLs) |
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| Summarize an individual's ability to interact in complex, multidimensional ways with the environment daily activities involving use of the environment. |
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| Impairments in the ability to complete multiple daily tasks. |
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| Severe limitations in ADL |
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| Defined as the coexistence of two or more chronic systemic or psychiatric conditions. |
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| The combination of an individual's functional health, feelins of competence, autonomy in performing ADL's and satisfaction with one's social circumstances. |
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| Short-term disease or infection, often debilitating to older than younger persons. |
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| Long-term often permanent, and leaving a residual disability that may require long-term management or care rather than cure. |
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| Reduced resistance to environmental carcinogens, virues, and bacteria. |
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| Acute myocardial infarction |
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| Loss of blood flow to a specific region of the heart, resulting in damage of the myocardium. |
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| High blood pressure; higher than 140 |
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| Impaired brain tissue circulation |
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| Blood clot that either diminishes or closes off the blood flow in an artery of the brain or neck. |
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| Inability of the stroke victime to speak or understand speech if the speech center of the brain dies. |
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| Paralysis of one side of the body |
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| Blindness in half of the victim's visual field. |
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| A chronic inflammation of the membranes lining joints and tendons. |
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| Gradual degeneration of the jointsthat are most subject to stress. |
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| Insufficient insulin, produced and secreted by the pancreas. |
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| Benign prostatic hypertrophy |
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| A condition in which the prostate gland becomes enlared and cuases discomfort but is not associate with prostate cancer. |
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| The inability to control urine or feces |
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| A condition in which pouches or sacs in the intestinal wall become inflamed and infected. |
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| Condition in which a small portion of the stomach slides up through the diaphragm |
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| No natural teeth remaining |
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| Diagnosis-related groupings (DRGs) |
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| System of classifying medical cases for payment on the basis of diagnoses. |
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| Combination of health education and related organizational, political and economic changes aimed at enhanceing an individual's control over and ability to improve their health not just mange their diseases. |
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| Disease of disuse or degeneration and functional loss of muscle and bone tissue. |
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