Healthy Aging
Emphasizes factors that promote health and longevity, rather than factors that cause disease.
Salutogenesis
Individuals that usually work with new hires and help facilitate on-the-job learning.
Mentor
Kubler Ross' stages
Denial/isolation
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Staying with a partner through life's good and bad times.
Commitment
The degree to which people are similar
Homogamy
Rowe & Kahn's (1997) components of healthy aging.
1. Avoiding disease/disability
2. Maintaining high physical/cognitive functioning
3. Remaining engaged with life
Retirement became popular after this historical event.
World War 2
Ways that people protect themselves when thinking about death. For example, a belief in an afterlife, making jokes, etc.
Terror Management Theory
Successful relationships exist when both partners believe there is equity in the relationship. Greg does the vacuuming and his wife does the laundry. They both share in childcare responsibilities.
Exchange theory
Grief that occurs before the loss of a loved one. For example, family coping with the dementia diagnosis their loved one has received.
anticipatory grief
These clear out the low-density lipoproteins that clog up arteries.
High-density lipoproteins (HDLs).
Leisure repertoire
Affective or emotional response to bereavement.
Grief
Failing to take care of an older adult who you are responsible for (e.g., making sure they are dressed, fed, etc).
Neglect
Preoccupation with a deceased individual to a point that it interferes with daily functioning.
Separation Distress
Efforts aimed at improving functional abilities of people with chronic conditions. Ex) occupational therapy for someone with a stroke
Quaternary prevention
Internal urge to engage in an activity, making it hard to disengage with it, and leading to conflict with other aspects of one's daily life.
Obsessive passion
This model of coping allows for the experience of simultaneous positive and negative emotions.
Model of Adapting Grieving Dynamics (MAGD)
Feeling as though our relationships are resources that we can use.
Social Baseline Theory
People have the right to make their own healthcare decisions, accept/refuse medical treatment, and make an advance healthcare directive
Patient self-determination act of 1990
Social Facilitation of the Nonuse of Competence.
People choose jobs that optimize the fit between their traits and occupational interests. For example, someone who enjoys working with other people may choose to go into social work.
Holland's personality-type theory
A significant loss to you, but not always accepted or validated by others because of societal norms.
Disenfranchised grief
Explains changes in motivations and goals as we age; older adults place greater emphasis on emotionally meaningful relationships.
Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST)
Death is deliberately induced, such as receiving a lethal dose of a drug.
Active euthanasia