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| The age to which one can expect to live independently. |
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| Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) |
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| Basic self-care tasks such as eating, bathing, toileting, walking, and dressing. |
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| Conditions that develop over a short period of time and cause rapid change in health. |
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| The process by which the immune system begins attacking the body. |
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| the length of time it takes for half of all people born in a certain year to die. |
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| Conditions that last a longer period of time, at least 3 months, and may be accompanied by residual functional impairment that necessitates long-term management. |
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| The situation in which the average age when one becomes disabled for the first time is postponed, causing the time between the onset of the disability and death to be compressed into a shorter period of time. |
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| In the stress and coping paradigm, any attempt to deal with stress. |
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| Dependent Life Expectancy |
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| The age to which one can expect to live with assistance. |
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| A disease that occurs when the pancreas produces insufficient insulin. |
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| The effects of chronic conditions on people's ability to engage in activities that are necessary, expected, and personally desired in their society. |
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| Older adults who have physical disabilities, are very ill, and may have cognitive or psychological disorders and need assistance with everyday tasks. |
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| The absence of acute and chronic physical or mental disease and impairments. |
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| The presence of a physical or mental disease or impairment. |
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| The loss of the ability to control the elimination of urine and feces on an occasional or consistent basis. |
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| Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) |
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| Actions that entail some intellectual competence and planning. |
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| The maximum length of time an organism can live, roughly 120 years for humans. |
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| The absence of acute and chronic physical or mental disease and impairments. |
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| The presence of a physical or mental disease or impairment. |
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| The loss of the ability to control the elimination of urine and feces on an occasional or consistent basis. |
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| Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) |
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| Actions that entail some intellectual competence and planning. |
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| The maximum length of time an organism can live, roughly 120 years for humans. |
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| The use of multiple medications. |
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| First step in the stress and coping paradigm in which events are categorized into three groups based on the significance they have for our well-being: irrelevant, benign or positive, and stressful. |
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| The study of the relations between psychological, neurological, and immunological systems that raise or lower our susceptibility to and ability to recover from disease. |
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| In the stress and coping paradigm, this step involves making a new primary or secondary appraisal resulting from changes in the situation. |
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| In the stress and coping paradigm, an assessment of our perceived ability to cope with harm, threat, or challenge. |
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| Stress and Coping Paradigm |
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| A model that views stress not as an environmental stimulus or as a response but as the interaction of a thinking person and an event. |
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