Life Span-Late Adulthood
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- Secondary aging
- aging processes that result from disease and bodily abuse and disuse and are often prevenable
- episodic memory
- long-term memory of specific experiences or events, linked to time and place
- primary aging
- gradual, inevitable process of bodily deterioration throughout the life span
- glaucoma
- irreversible damage to the optic nerve caused by increased pressure in the eye
- procedural memory
- long-term memory of motor skills, habits, and ways of doing things, which often can be recalled without conscious effort; sometimes implicit memory
- friendship
- intimacy is an important benefit of older friendships, friends are a source of immediate enjoyment
- collateral and lineal family relationships
- collateral (egalitarian, highly flexible) lineal (power and authority lodged in the elder generation)
- gay and lesbian long-term partnerships
- little research exists on older couples, may have children from earlier marriages or adoption, social networks tend to substitute for the traditional family
- elder abuse
- maltreatment or neglect of dependent older persons, or violation of their personal rights
- emotion focused coping
- In the cognitive-appraisal model, coping strategy directed toward managing the emotional response to a stressful situation so as to lessen its physical or psychological impact; also called palliative impact
- cataracts
- cloudy or opaque areas in the lens of the eye, which cause blurred vision
- alzheimer's disease
- progressive, irreversible, degenerative brain disorder characterized by cognitive deterioration and loss of control of bodily dunctions, leading to death
- relationship between age and job performance
- older workers are more productive than younger workers, also tend to be more dependable, careful, responible, frugal with time and materials
- Marriage late adulthood vs. middle adulthood
- satisfying, and has improve since middle-aulthood
- types of emotion focused coping
- proactive(seeking social support, confronting feelings); passive(avoidance, denial)
- Successful aging
- avoidance of disease or disability, mainenance of physical and cognitive function, active engagement in social activities
- Erikson's psychosocial development
- fianl stage of life span, ego integrity vs. despair, successful crisis resolution brings virtue of wisdom
- ageism
- prejudice or discrimination against a person (most commonly an older person) based on age
- age-related mancular degeneration
- condition in which the center of the retina gradually loses its ability to discern fine details; leading cause of irreversible visual impairment in older adults
- importance of exercise
- may help extend life
- weight training and physical development
- provides imrovements in muscal mass
- life expectancy
- age to which a person in a particular cohort is statstically likey to live ( given his or her current age and health status), on the basis of average longevity of a population
- common visual impairments
- cataracts, age-related mancular degeneration, glaucoma
- Relationships with adult children
- children provide greatest share of support