Chapter 13
This term applies to about 1/2 of young adults and refers to children who return back to their parents' home to live after having moved out.
What are boomerang kids?
This disease is caused by deterioration of neurons in the brain that produce dopamine and is known for its effects on motor skills such as hand tremors and slow walking.
What is Parkinson's?
The longest lasting relationship many older adults have is with this person/persons.
What are siblings?
The practice of ending life for reasons of mercy.
What is euthanasia?
The term used to refer to the person in a family that gathers the family together and keeps them in touch with one another.
What is kinkeeper?
This type of intelligence refers to "real-life" problems that reflect situations that people routinely face.
What is practical?
This type of memory specifically refers to one's unconscious remembering of information learned at an earlier time.
What is implicit?
This type of facility provides medical care 24 hours a day, seven days a week using a team of various health care professionals.
What is long-term care (nursing home)?
A person states his or her wishes about life support and other treatments in this type of document.
What is a living will?
An alternative living arrangement for elderly persons of 6-10 homes in a community that blends independent living with assistance when needed.
What is the Greenhouse Project?
This wear and tear disease is marked by the gradual onset of bone damage with progression of pain and disability.
What is arthritis?
These are the masses that form when fibers that compose axons become twisted together.
What are neurofibrillary tangles?
These activities require some intellectual competence and planning skills.
What are instrumental activities of daily living?
The ways in which people express their grief.
What is mourning?
The type of memory responsible for general knowledge (facts, meanings), not tied to a specific point in time.
What is semantic?
Erikson's seventh stage of psychosocial development, occurring in middle adulthood.
What is generativity vs stagnation?
These theories of aging suggest that aging is genetically determined, like a biological clock.
What are programmed theories?
Government funded health insurance for individuals over the age of 65.
What is Medicare?
The sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss.
What is grief?
These individuals know a great deal about life, how to interpret life events, and what life means.
Who are wise people?
Individuals who thrive on social interaction, like to talk, and take charge easily are high on this dimension of the 5-Factor trait model of personality.
What is extroversion?
This disease occurs when the pancreas produces insufficient insulin.
What is diabetes mellitus?
The desertion of an older adult by an individual who had physical custody or otherwise had assumed responsibility for providing care for the older adult.
What is abandonment?
The first assisted suicide law in the United States.
What is Death with Dignity Act?
Your favorite professor of the semester.
Who is Dr. Castellino? :-)