This is when seniors remain in a familiar setting where they have control over their everyday life.
What is aging in place?
100
Elder maltreatment takes any of these forms.
What is physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse sexual abuse or financial abuse?
100
According to this person, attaining ego integrity involves 3 distinct tasks.
Who is Robert Peck?
100
This offers a range of housing alternatives, from independent or congregate housing to full nursing home care.
What is life care communities?
100
This is when independent behaviors are mostly ignored.
What is independence-ignore script?
200
This is an increasingly popular long-term care option- it provides a variety of support services, including meals in a common dining room, along with watchful oversight of residents.
What is congregate housing?
200
Older women have more of these people who are not intimates but with whom they spend time occasionally, such as a group that meets for lunch, bridge or museum tours.
What is secondary friends?
200
This is telling stories about people and events from their past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings.
What is reminiscence?
200
Research suggests that as seniors grow older, this increases. Another term for focusing on psychological strengths.
What is body transcendence?
200
The is the age in which individuals have the highest suicide rate.
What is 65 and up?
300
According to this theory, social interaction extends lifelong selections processes.
What is socioemotional selectivity theory?
300
This function of late life friendships involves friends disclosing their deepest sources of happiness and worry.
What is intimacy and companionship?
300
This is a cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward, beyond self.
What is gerotranscendence?
300
Whose theory is Ego integrity vs. despair.
What is Erickson?
300
This is when dependent behaviors are attended to immediately.
What is dependency-support script?
400
This theory states that social barriers to engagement, not the desires of aging adults, cause declining rates of interaction.
What is activity level?
400
This is an influential model of changes in our social networks as we move through life.
What is social convoy?
400
This is the ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion.
What affect optimization?
400
This type of aging is when gains are maximized and loses are minimized.
What is optimal aging?
400
This disorder is the main cause of suicide in elderly people.
What is depression?
500
According to this theory, rather than maintaining a certain activity level, most aging adults strive to maintain a personal system, an identity and a set of personality dispositions.
What is continuity theory?
500
True or false, characteristics of the victim, the abuser, their relationship, and its social context are related to the incidents and severity of elder abuse.
What is true?
500
This involves coming to terms with one's life.
What is ego integrity vs. despair?
500
Research suggests that as seniors grow older, this increases. Another term for orienting toward a larger, more distant future.
What is ego transcendence?
500
A good match between peoples abilities and the demands of their living environments, which promotes adaptive behavior and psychosocial well-being.