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decline in elderly
pain, stffness and swelling in the joints |
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| thinning, fraying and crackling of cartilage a the end of bones |
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| cognitive functioning so everly impared that it affects our ability to relate to others and to manage our own daily activities |
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| terminal drop (terminal decline) |
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| a subtantial decline in intellectual functioning that adults may show at the end of their lives |
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| cerbrovascular accidents (strokes) |
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| an artery serving the brain is clogged or bursts |
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| many minor strokes can cause |
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a brain disorder that leads to dimentia
its prevelance increases with age |
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| clumps of insoluable proteins that are damaging o neurons |
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| twisted filaments of another protein, which may interfere with communication between neurons and even cause cell death |
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| the strength of the memory declines, the more time has past since the memory was formed |
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| more memories are produced from this era then we would predict on the basis of recency |
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| recollections that are especially vivid and personally relevant |
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selection
(three process are key to succesful developement) |
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| narrowing goals and limiting the domains in which we expand effort |
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optimization
(three process are key to succesful developement) |
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| finding ways to enhance the achievement or remaining goals or finding environements that are enhancing. |
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| When a loss of some kind prevents the use of one means, we compensate by finding another means |
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| selective optimization with compensation |
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| the three combined process of successful developement |
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| he growth of competence of all kinds serves primary control functions and contribues to feelings of mastery |
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stage 1 - honeymoon
stage 2 - disenchantment
stage 3 - reorientation
stage 4 - stability
stage 5 - termination
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stage 1 of stages of retirement
focus on pleasures of being free |
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stage 2 of stages of retirement
feel an emotional let down |
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stage 3 of stages of retirement
a time of active trial and error |
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stage 4 of the stages of retirement
finding a funtional path that seems to work |
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stage 5 of stages of retirement
individuals health is declining |
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| refers to our attempts to changes ourselves |
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| expertise in the fundamental pragmtics of life |
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end-of-life care
see pge 503 for 11 principles |
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| development in a core set of principles for providers. Consists of 11 principles |
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| the ability to prepare for death |
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| the philospy of care embodied, which serves people who suffer from terminal illness |
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end of life options
refusing the necessities to live out remainder of life |
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| phyician-assisted suicide |
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end of life options
prescibing medicine that enables patients to take their own lives |
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end of life options
injection of medication by someone else that causes immediate death
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end of life options
giving medication to relieve pain, knowing that death may occur
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| advance directives (living wills) |
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| statements in writing that describe a persons wishes reguarding medical reatment in the event of an incurble disease |
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denial
(coping mechanisms) |
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| follows initial shock of death |
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anger
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| towards God, the questions of why and towards others, or towards the disease |
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bargaining
(coping mechanisms)
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depression
(coping mechanisms) |
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| sadness and feelings of hopelessnes |
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acceptance
(coping mechanisms) |
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| withdraw emotional attachment from thee oved one that has deceased |
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| detaching frm relationship |
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shock
(Bowbys description of grieving in phases) |
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| numbness or feelings of unreality |
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protest
(Bowbys description of grieving in phases) |
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| obsessive yearning, searching for lost love |
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despair
(Bowbys description of grieving in phases) |
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subsequent period
great sadness, social withdrawl |
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reorganization
(Bowbys description of grieving in phases) |
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| complicated or abnormal grief |
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| longer periods of grieving time then what is expected |
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proposed by Stroebe and Schut
interplay of stressors and coping strategies within a flexible framework
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| grieving is balanced by parellel acivitie |
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| handling pratical tasks that need to be done daily. |
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