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| inability to hear high frequency sounds, 12% of people 45-65 |
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| women go an entire year without having a period, age 47 irregular periods, less estrogen being produced, 10% have serious problems |
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| Type A Personality: Competitive Achievement Striving |
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| 1. persistent individuals, 2. exaggerated sense of time urgency, 3. aggressiveness and hostility |
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| process new information using reasoning, abstract thinking; is less tied to education and more acquired by experience; declines with aging |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| learned cognitive processes and abilities; vocab, facts, information |
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| Schaie's Middle Adulthood Stages |
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Responsibility- people consider their responsibilities to others when making a decision while still meeting your own goals
executive stage- people in powerful positions, meet the needs of competing groups( employees and shareholders) |
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| Schaie's Middle Adulthood Stages |
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Responsibility- people consider their responsibilities to others when making a decision while still meeting your own goals
executive stage- people in powerful positions, meet the needs of competing groups( employees and shareholders) |
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| 5 personality Factors- OCEAN |
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| Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Necroticism |
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| Erikson's Generativity vs. Stagnation |
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generativity- establishing and guiding the next generation; become a parent or teacher
stagnation- boredom, false intimacy, self-indulgence
RESULT = CARE |
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| Why Women are living longer |
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1. have more hormones
2. experience less stress ( do less physical labor)
3. More likely to engage in preventive care
4. Engage in healthier behaviors( diets, exercise, no smoking) |
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1. Wear and Tear- gradually deterioration
2. Cellular- destructive effects of some substances on cellular functioning (cancer)
3. Genetic Predisposition- life span is predetermined by the genes in each species- built into our DNA at birth |
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| Skin, bone, Muscle Changes |
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Skin- less elastic, more wrinkley, irregular in pigmentation, sags, dry
Bone- demineralization= light bone mass, brittle, pourous bones; osteoporosis- 30% women, 17% men
Muscle Change- gradual decline, by age 60, 10-20% decline per decade |
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| Heart- slower, ejects less blood, reduced blood flow, blood less oxygenated, less synchronized, maximum cardiac output during strenuous activity is declined |
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| smaller (20% decrease in weight), less elastic, use accessory muscles more, less efficient |
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| Cataracts, Senile Macular Degeneration- degeneration of the retina, leading cause of blindness; Hearing loss, Taste and Smells decreases- less buds, olfactory bulb in brain shrivel |
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processing component of memory:
1. temporary storage of info
2. process info
with aging it becomes harder to tune out the background noises |
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| automatic memory, routines and habits, not deliberately memorized |
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intentional recollection of information- words, data, concepts
studying for an exam
vulnerable to age decline |
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| remember more pleasant memories |
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| Alzheimer's Disease: prevalence and symptoms |
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most common type of dementia, 4.5 million affected, half of the people in nursing homes
gradual decline in memory, confusion of time and place, decline in hygiene, decline in communication, inappropriate social behavior, change in personality |
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| Five Stages of Alzheimer's |
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1. General Forgetfullnes
2. Confusion Becomes more Generalized
3. Memory loss become dangerous
4. full care is needed
5. suffers may become mute,no emotional response |
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| genetics, viruses, immune system problems, hormone imbalances |
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1. Cholinesterase Inhibitors- prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine
2. Memanitine- regulates glutamate |
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| Theories of Successful Aging |
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1. Activity Theory- stay involved, do activities you enjoyed in middle adulthood
2. Disengagement Theory- withdrawal from the world, can be positive time of reflection
3. Continuity Theory- continue living the way you did in the past
4. Selective Optimization Theory- adjust to the changes in your life due to lost abilities, life reduced in some ways but modified in others |
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| Erikson's Integrity vs. Despair |
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integrity- contributing to the continuity of human conditon, want to feel like you have contributed to society
despair- feel like you have achieved what you wanted to with your life and don't have any more time- think about death
STRENGTH= WISDOM- concerned with life even though you are nearing death |
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| Peck's Developmental Tasks |
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1. Redefinition of self vs. preoccupation with work role
2. Body transcendence vs. Body preoccupation
3. Ego Transcendence vs. Ego preoccupation |
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1. Choice
2. Downsizing of Companies- forced
3. Health Reasons
4. Job Satisfaction- boring= asap |
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| Atchley's Stages of Retirement |
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1. Pre-Retirement
2. Honeymoon stage
3. Immediate Routine
4. Rest and Relaxation
5. Dienchantment
6. Reorientation
7. Routine
8. Termination |
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| Important factors to adjusting to retirement |
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| 1. financial security, 2. social support, 3. health |
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| Effects Of retirment on marriage |
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| 1. never married just as satisfied as the married 2. divorced/widowed less satisfied 3. requires adjustment by husband and wife |
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1. social loss- lose their friends that are couples, do not like doing things alone
2. financial- esp. women who are living off social security |
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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance |
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1. reactive- sad about the event that have already occurred, sad you will not be able to do those things anymore
2. preparatory - sad about the loss of the future and things you will not be able to do |
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| Differences in People's Reaction to Death |
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| amount of social support, cause of death, length of the process, age |
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Initial - shock , disbelief= anxiety
Intermediate- realize what life is without the person: think about death, search for understanding, search for the deceased
Recovery |
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