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| Demographics of Older Adults |
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life expectancy has dramatically increased (late life expectancy- time we can expect to live after 65 - has increased by 20 years) birth rates are declining, resulting in an older average population % of people over 65 has risen from 4.1% to 12.4% |
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young-old: 60-79, good health, live comfortably old-old: over 79 yrs, poor health, poor, old-age disabilities |
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the upper boundary of life ~105 for humans |
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person's 50/50 chance at birth of living to any given age, ~76.7 in US women tend to live longer (~80) LE for African Americans is shorter than for whites around age 85 a life-expectancy crossover occurs in that surviving african americans live slightly longer than survive white americans |
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low expectations can create low self-efficacy, which produces self-fulfilling prophecy perform more difficult memory tasks poorly time sensitive testing produces poor results divided attention tasks are difficult |
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limited capacity gateway system contains all material that we can keep in awareness at a single time allows material to be manipulated declines beginning in 20s |
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basic factual knowledge you hold long lasting crystallized memory moderately resilient with age |
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involves recall of ongoing events of daily life negatively affected by age |
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longest lasting habitual thought patterns and actions the last to go in patients with many brain diseases |
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| individual differences in cognition |
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huge differences in performance with age 45-60% maintain stable level into their 70s 10-15% show increase until mid 70s roughly 30% decline by 60s |
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| factors that predict cognition in older adults |
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education lifestyle work health status (chronic disease, physical fitness, exercise) |
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~65 yrs only 1 in 10 US adults working after 64 we can expect to live about 20 yrs after retirement often made possible through government funding some countries do not have retirement |
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us government retirement support program meant to reduce late life poverty current workers support employees worker/retiree ratio will not support it |
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| corporate private pension plans |
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employee and employer contributes a portion of each paycheck to a growing account low wage jobs do not have pensions |
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medicare - public medical insurance for people 65+ worker/retiree ratio will not support it increases in healthcare outpace inflation SS and medicare major political issues |
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