Facing change
Legal process when a person declares they are unable to pay debts
What is bankruptcy
Allows couples to live in separate homes
Cannot remarry
Legal agreement to live apart
Halfway point between marriage and divorce
What is legal separation
A person who provides direct care
What is a caregiver
A dependence on a particular substance or action.
A need to repeat a behavior in order to function
What is an addiction
An agreement made by a couple before they marry concerning the ownership of their respective assets should the marriage fail.
What is prenuptial agreement
Monthly payment. Assists family with basic costs. Must be applied for. Usually only last 1 year
What is unemployment
Couples meet with neutral third person to settle on decisions
What is divorce mediation
Physical abuse of aging people
What is elder abuse
Behaviors that are threatening or disturbing
What is harassment
Financial support of an ex-spouse
The spouse with more financial resources helps the other
May last until they find a job or remarry
What is alimony
Forces of nature that cannot be controlled.
What is a natural disaster
States that a legal marriage never took place due to some prior condition
Marriage was not legal because it was not entered in good faith
What is an Annulment
Degenerative brain disease that causes memory loss, impaired thinking, and inability to carry out daily activities
What is Alzheimer's disease
Tension builds, trigger, abuse, honeymoon stage
What is the cycle of abuse
To be able to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change
What is resilient
Gradually learn to accept that the change will or has happened
Regroup and start thinking about how to manage the change
What is acceptance
The five different custody agreements
What is sole, joint, split, alternate, and third party custody
The study of the aging process
What is gerontology
Taking a direct action to cause change when someone else is in a crisis
What is an intervention
Temporary care so that the main caregiver can have a break
What is respite care.
All five stages of change
What is denial, resistance, acceptance, transition, and commitment
One spouse has a living spouse from another marriage.
What is bigamy
The five stages of aging
What is honeymoon stage, active stage, slowing down stage, reminiscing stage, and sunset stage
Normal contact with others is not allowed. May be kept at home. Prevented from seeing family or friends
What is to isolate
The human hormone that causes the physical reactions to stress
Epinephrine