Chapter 15
Three most important lifestyle factors in increasing life expectancy and improving quality of life:
Diet, sleep, exercise
According to Erikson, middle-aged adults would most likely experience a crisis of ___ as they search for meaning and a way to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Term for the average longevity of a group
Life Expectancy
Name the fastest growing age group of the population:
Older Adults
What are the five stages of confronting death?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
Leading preventable cause of death for adults ages 45-60
Hypertension
What we call the generation of middle-aged adults who support both their own parents/older family members and their own children.
The Sandwich Generation
Term for the back-up reserve the body uses for times of stress when it needs to operate at peak capacity. Declines with age.
Reserve Capacity
Big Five Personality factor that correlates with poorer health outcomes in old age.
Neuroticism
Name one of the top three leading causes of death in late adulthood (age 65+).
Cancer, heart disease, or stroke
Type of intelligence that allows individuals to recall information acquired over their lifetime. Increases throughout middle age.
Crystallized Intelligence
The term for the material and emotional resources a married couple invest during their relationship.
Marital Capital
Double Jeopardy!!
In 2016, US life expectancy was approximately:
72 (answers between 70 and 74 get points)
Name the last of Erikson’s stages and its basic virtue.
Ego Integrity Vs. Despair - Wisdom
The term for the study of death and dying
Thanatology
Susan, nearing the end of middle-adulthood, has worked as a nurse in the neonatal unit at a hospital for over 20 years. When it comes to working at her job and helping care for her infant grandchild, she is able to draw upon her knowledge and experience with ease. She is slowly finding that in other areas of her life, she is not able to learn and apply new information as she did when she was younger. Susan’s knowledge of infant health would be considered:
Encapsulated
How chronic stress manifests in the body.
Inflammation
Term that describes the finding that cells cannot replicate more than 50 times in a lab. Relates to programmed senescence.
Hayflick's Limit
Most aging adult’s goal in terms of living arrangements in old age.
Ageing in place
Term that refers specifically to a widely observed decline in cognitive abilities shortly before death, even when factors such as health and demographics are observed.
Terminal Drop or Terminal Decline
2004 Study that found most middle-aged adults are in good cognitive, physical, and emotional health, and report good quality of life
MIDUS (The Midlife in the US Study)
According to this theory, as people age they tend to reduce the size of their social network and focus more on emotional goals.
Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
These molecules with unpaired electrons are a byproduct of metabolic processes that can damage cells.
Free Radicals
Theory of aging that focuses on how we select fewer and more meaningful activities/goals, optimize the resources we have, and try to compensate for losses by using alternative ways to achieve goals.
Selective Optimization with Compensation
Legal document outlining a person’s wishes for how they want to receive medical care if they become too ill to advocate for themselves or become incapacitated.
Advanced Directive/Advanced Healthcare Directive/Living Will