Wild Card
the leading form of dementia in elderly adults
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Erikson talked about this versus isolation in Young Adulthood
What is intimacy?
The following are helpful in the treatment of this disease commonly affecting this population: Quitting smoking, Reducing blood cholesterol and Reducing Stress.
What is Cardiovascular disease?
In elderly people, this gender has more difficulty with sleep.
What are elderly men?
Research suggests that most Americans prefer to die here.
What is, 'at Home?'
True or False: Continued education in middle age can result in enhanced perceptual speed
What is False?
In young adulthood the move to this kind of thinking allows more acceptance of contradictions, imperfections, and increases the ability to compromise.
What is Pragmatic Thought?
What is Neuroticism?
This category of people experience all of the following: greater risk for health complications, less sense of control over their health, and less trust of health professionals
What is low SES ethnic minorities?
Intense grief lasting longer than one year
What is Complicated grief?
In the United States, this gender is viewed more negatively and experiences a double standard of aging
What are women?
Young adults vote (more? or less) often than older adults
What is less often?
Term used in describing Grandparents becoming caregivers
What is a Skipped Generation?
Older adults compensate for declines in this by speaking slower and using shorter sentences.
What is Language Processing?
Prolonged, expected death which allows time to consider and prepare for death
What is Anticipatory grief?
Generativity vs......
(Erikson, Middle Adulthood)
What is Stagnation?
People who marry young are more likely to do this
What is divorce?
Is the following statement true or false: "Intellectual development in middle age is unidimensional an rigid"
What is False?
Finish the phrase: The later adulthood stage is ego integrity versus....
What is Despair?
Comfort measures that are meant to make a person more comfortable, not to prolong life
What is Palliative care?
This developmental stage has recently been identified, extends from 18-29, and is marked by delays in commitment, marriage, career, and involves a fluid sense of identity.
What is Emerging Adulthood?
The ____ period describes the vocational stage in young adulthood
What is the Realistic period?
Planning for this is commonly challenging, particularly for women, low income earners, people with loss of income, loss of status, and difficulty filling their time.
Presbyopia affects this part of the body
What is the lens of the eye?
During the agonal phase of dying, this happens
What is, the heartbeat disintegrates?