This refers to acceleration in deterioration of cognitive functioning prior to death.
What is terminal decline?
100
These are cloudy areas in the lens, resulting in foggy vision.
What is cataracts?
100
The difficulty creating and retrieving links between pieces of information.
What is associative memory deficit?
100
The most common type of arthritis which involves deteriorating cartilage on the ends of bones of frequently used joints.
What is osteoarthritis?
200
This is a set of disorders occurring almost entirely in old age in which many aspects of thought and behavior are so impaired that everyday activities are disrupted.
What is dementia?
200
This is when light sensitive cells in the central region of the retina break down, older adults may develop this.
What is macular degeneration?
200
This is an array of devices that permit people with disabilities to improve their functioning.
What is assistive technology?
200
This is known as a wealth of life experience underlying another capacity believed to reach its height on old age.
What is wisdom?
200
This is the number of years that a person born in a particular year can expect to live, starting sat any given age.
What is average life expectancy?
300
This involve weakened functioning of diverse organs and body systems which interferes with everyday competence and leaves older people highly vulnerable in the face of infection.
What is frailty?
300
Memory without conscious awareness.
What is implicit memory?
300
This is basic self care tasks required to live on one's own, such as bathing, dressing, getting in and out of a bed or chair.
What is ADLs?
300
This refers to remembering to engage in planned actions in the future.
What is prospective memory?
300
This is the most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
400
These are dense deposits of a deteriorated protein surrounded by clumps of dead nerve and glial cells.
What is amyloid plaques?
400
These are bundles of twisted threads that are the product of collapsed neural structures and that contains abnormal forms of a protein called tau.
What is neurofibrillary tangles?
400
This is a tiny computer chip placed on medicine bottles which beeps as a reminder to take the medication.
What is smart cap?
400
Very long term recall.
What is remote memory?
400
This is the number of years a person born in a particular year can expect to live in full health.
What is average healthy life expectancy
500
As life expectancy extends, we want the average period of diminished vigor before death, especially, the number of months or years of ill-health and suffering to decrease.
What is compression of mobility?
500
A series of strokes leaves areas of dead brain cells, producing step by step degeneration of mental ability, with each step occurring abruptly after a stroke.
What is cerebrovascular dementia?
500
This is when people say they feel younger than they look.
What is subjective age?
500
This is a period of heightened autobiographical memory called this.