Life Course Theory
The central premise of Life Course Theory.
What is, "changing lives alter developmental trajectories"?
This gerontology term refers to a person who helps keep a family together through the organization of family gatherings.
What is a kin keeper?
The recommendation if abuse, neglect, exploitation of an older adult is suspected.
What is, to contact your local adult protective services office and make a report?
True or false: Being a grandparent can look different across the globe depending on cultural setting and ethnic group.
True.
In a heterosexual marriage, this spouse's health has a greater influence on marital quality.
what is: Husband's POOR health
Individual differences are minimized through new circumstances that press from all angles toward a particular behavior (Elder, 1998).
What is a total institution?
Familism refers to the idea that the well-being of the family takes precedence over the concerns of individual family members. Perceptions of familism can have important implications for caregiving of older adults. Cavanaugh names this factor that strongly influences views about familism.
What is cultural/ethnic background?
Significant predictors of whether or not older adults seek help with abuse (report abuse to police/authorities)
what are:
1. perpetrators having a high number of friends made (victims less likely to seek help)
2. victim depends on the perpetrator (less likely)
3. perpetrator has a police history (victim more likely to seek help)
4. when physical abuse occurs (more likely)
5. poly-victimization is present (more likely)
Grandparents generally benefit from and derive great meaning from their relationships with these people.
What are grandchildren?
Iveniuk and colleagues (2014) studied these two factors in relation to marriage in later life.
What are: Health Challenges and the Big 5 Personality traits
Caregivers of persons with advanced cancer carry a large burden. Sun and Francis (2023) found that less burden is felt by caregivers with these two factors (higher/lower ____ and higher/lower ____).
What are higher commitment and higher relationship quality (of caregivers).
Sometimes adult children provide care to aging parents with health problems. Caregivers experiences these two things when caring for aging parents.
What are burdens and benefits?
This has the most promise regarding protecting older adults against financial exploitation.
What is: banks and financial institutions monitoring activity and questioning unusual withdrawals.
Hayslip et al., (2017) found that custodial grandparents with any of these three traits may be at a higher risk for economic strain.
What are: living in rural areas, or who are African American, or Mexican.
Moving into caregiving status is associated with declines in this (Queen et al., 2017).
What is a decline in physical activity engagement across time.
Daily Double
If everyone on your team has already turned in their service learning assignment, you get 800 points.
Fingerman et al., 2016 examined midlife parents' daily experiences with grown children. Higher quality parent child relationships were linked with this.
These are risk factors for abuse in later life.
Female gender, living with a larger number of household members other than a spouse, social isolation, dementia diagnosis.
Hayslip et al., (2017) found that this could potentially increase resilience among custodial grandparents.
What are: interventions that target social support, health management, and avoiding isolation
The most common deterrent for men and women to remain sexually active in later life.
What is: Lack of a willing/able partner.
The 4 assumptions of Life Course Theory.
What are?
1. Historical factors influence the aging experience
2. Development occurs in connection with linked lives such as with family and friends.
3. Development is influenced by the timing of transitions that occur throughout life.
4. Human agency, or choice, influences individual development across time.
Fingerman et al., (2016) examined midlife parents' daily experiences with grown children. This phenomenon happened on days that parents had both positive and negative interactions with their adult children.
What is: the positive outweighed the negative?
Lachs and Pillemer (2015) suggest resources for victims and perpetrators of abuse including these factors.
What are making a safety plan, providing education, evaluating resources, and connecting with existing formal support services.
Yorgason and Hill (2019) found the health of grandparents to be related to the grandparent grandchild relationship in three ways highlighted on your quiz.
What are:
1. Shared leisure activities
2. When grandchildren are caregivers
3. Positive and negative ways grandchildren can be affected when the grandparent has a terminal illness
This primary aging change in women can cause painful intercourse unless available solutions are used.
What is vaginal dryness.