Physical and Cognitive in Middle Adulthood
In middle adulthood, this becomes the leading cause of death, surpassing unintentional injuries.
What is cancer?
This is the stage of psychosocial development in middle adulthood, according to Erikson.
What is generativity versus stagnation?
Cara lived up to 100 years of age. Her daughters, nieces and nephews lived to be 96, 97,98 years of age. According to Cara's family (population), we can assume what this will be for future family members.
What is their life expectancy?
A 65 year old mother reflects on the life she lived. She regretted not being home more to spend time with her children and not staying connected to her family.
This describes this from Erik Erikson.
What is despair (integrity versus despair- Erikson's 8th stage)?
This is the difference between a clinical death and biological death
What is organs cannot be resuscitated in a biological death, but can be resuscitated in a clinical death?
Carl is a musician. He played drums for a rock and roll band for 30 years. He has a hard time hearing deep tones and asks people to repeat things they say to him. His hearing loss can be accounted for by this.
What is secondary aging?
Lola is in love. She thinks about her love day and night and cannot go to sleep until she hears from her lover. She also has friendly conversations with her lover and feels a good friendship, too.
This is the type of love Lola is experiencing.
What is romantic love (passion, intimacy)?
Timothy writes a report on his aging family. He asserts the reason they aged is because their cells can no longer replicate themselves. This is known as...
What is the cellular clock theory?
Older adults are slow and unable to learn new things. They cannot remember important information and are set in their ways and unable to change.
What are stereotypes of older adults?
According to research and the World Health Organization, excess mortality of up to 3 million deaths occurred due to this, making it the 3rd largest common cause of deaths in 2020 & 2021
What is COVID-19?
These are the names for changes in visual acuity, gradual hearing loss, and difficulty with balance (loss of balance) that becomes more apparent in middle adulthood.
What are presbyopia (visual), presbycusis (hearing loss), proprioception?
Ezra is a single father with adolescent children. His parents are in their 70's and have major health issues. Ezra takes care of his parents 4 nights a week and his children daily. He has difficulty sleeping, often sick with colds and aches and pains throughout his body. Ezra's physical health may be an outcome of this "in-between" situation.
What is the "sandwich generation"?
Nancy asserts she was able to get rid of stress better when she was young. She states as she got older, stress is much more difficult to shed. Also, it's causing her to develop wrinkles sooner than her friends the same age. Nancy seems to be expressing this aging theory.
What is hormonal stress theory?
Professor King retired last year after 30 years with Los Angeles University. He continues to teach courses at the local community college. He was well received because of his knowledge and his ability to assess new faculty.
This is known as...
What is bridge employment?
This can occur when people are unsure what happens to them after they die.
What is death anxiety?
In males, hormonal changes during middle adulthood result in loss of muscle mass, known as this.
What is sarcopenia?
In terms of family relationship models, this type of relationship occurs when a family member has negative experiences at work, then comes home and engages in positive interaction with family.
What is compensatory model of family relationships?
This is the most common brain disorder in late adulthood
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Helen lives alone. She has arthritis that prevents mobility in certain some areas of her life. She is able to complete household tasks such as making meals, cleaning, bathing and laundry. She is known to experience this '"functional ability"
What is Active Daily Living (ADL)?
This is how hospice care and palliative care are connected.
What is hospice care provides care by maintaining quality of life for people with terminal illnesses.
What is palliative care provides pain relief and comfort but doesn't cure the illness?
Jenny is 50- years old. She can be expected to remember how to bake a cake from scratch but may find it difficult to develop a program on her computer that shows how to bake a virtual cake. Although she may be able to do so, it may take her slightly longer than the average 20-year old.
Jenny is not a computer programmer. The extent of her technology use is texting on her smartphone.
This is based on this notion regarding intelligence in middle adulthood
What is adults experience gradual decrease in fluid intelligence, but a steady increase in crystallized intelligence?
These are the 2 most common household types in late adulthood (65+)
What are married couples without children, single only?
Dr. Vo examined the brains of those affected with Alzheimer's disease. these two proteins were found present during his examination.
What are amyloid plaques and tau proteins (which turn into neurofibrillary tangles)?
When comparing male and female widows, it has been found they struggle more emotionally when their spouse dies.
This group is also more likely to marry after the death of their spouse.
Who are males?
Vera recently lost her husband to cancer. Vera wrote a detailed letter to the hospital administrators complaining about the type of care her husband received while he was in the hospital. She thinks his life could have been spared if he received better treatment.
Vera is experiencing this theme developed by Elisabeth Kubler Ross
What is anger?
Virginia is in her last semester of her 2 year college program. She's had many challenges in last 2 months. This included the loss of a family member, taking on the care for aging parent and studying for her final exams. Virginia is experiencing stress overload more often than her friends and peers.
She finds herself forgetting information, loss of concentration, feeling sheer exhaustion, and burning in her stomach. This can be due to this.
What is experiencing allostatic load?
Married adults increase their net worth by this amount, compared to single adults.
What is 77%?
Arturo was a champion soccer player in college due to his quick thinking and decision-making on the field. As an older adult, he is unable to compete with his grandson who can respond to situations quicker than Arturo. This is due to this cognitive change in late adulthood.
What is decreased processing speed?
Jeshana is the oldest of 5 sisters from Margaret and Thomas. Jeshana is the one who keeps her sisters connected to her parents and often takes charge when a family crisis arises.
According to the readings, Jeshana is known as this.
What is a kinkeeper?
This is the difference between grief and bereavement
What is grief is one's internal, emotional reaction to loss and bereavement is simply a person who experienced a loss (not connected to emotions)?
This is considered a hallmark of thinking in postformal thought. It includes inclusion of one's personal experience. It can also include divergent thinking.
What is relativism?
According to family systems theory, if Anthony came home from work frustrated and agitated, then took it out on his children, he would to be affecting the family system this way.
What is through spillover effect?
This is the main difference between Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease
What is Parkinson's disease does not involve dementia?
Katya is 63 years old and planning to retire at 65. She starts to decrease her work day from 8 hours to 6 hours at 63, then 4 hours at 64, then 2 hours at 65 years old.
This is known as this type of retirement
What is phased retirement?
A patient has dementia that will develop into Alzheimer's disease. Before it becomes severe and the patient is unable to make her own decisions, the patient completed this so to inform the doctors what to do when she becomes impaired.
What is complete an advanced directive?