Stage theories
This component of Erikson's late adulthood stage struggle emphasizes making peace with the life cycle and finding unity with the world.
What is Integrity?
The Berlin Aging Study found that levels of this have increased in older adults since the early 1990s.
What is cognitive functioning?
This is a brain disease that causes memory and cognitive abilities to decrease over time.
What is dementia?
This theory states that higher levels of activity and involvement are related to quality of life levels in older adults.
What is activity theory?
This perspective states that power is unequally divided and that groups with power impose their will on groups without power.
What is conflict?
During Joan and Erik Erikson's proposed 9th stage, this occurs.
What is revisitation of all earlier stages?
This age group is known as middle-old adulthood.
What is 75-84?
These two factors may slow cognitive decline.
What is social engagement and physical/intellectual activity?
Social workers' attention to reciprocity within older adults' relationships is an example of how you'd apply this theory in practice.
What is social exchange theory?
This perspective emphasizes the significance of early childhood experiences on later life and development.
What is psychodynamic (or Freudian)?
Vaillant proposed that this task, which focuses on passing down traditions, occurs between generativity and integrity.
What is guardianship?
What is the 1935 Social Security Act?
This is the most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This idea, which is an example of the constructionist approach to aging, posits that human development extends into aging and does not ever stop.
What is gerotranscendence?
This theory, working within the behavioral perspective, suggests that environmental and cognitive factors combine to influence human behavior.
What is social learning theory? (Albert Bandura)
This is one of Vaillant's components of personality, and according to him, does change throughout life because it relates to adaptive style.
What is character?
This kind of community has more older adults and more people who experience poverty.
What are Rural Communities?
This disease, the second most common neurological disease in older adults, is caused by a gradual loss of cells that produce dopamine in a specific part of the brain.
What is Parkinson's disease?
Ruby Johnson's experience as an older Black woman can be best understood through what kind of feminist theory?
What is intersectional feminism?
Carl Rogers' client-centered approach to therapy is an example of this perspective.
What is humanistic?
What is marriage and social support?
This demographic indicator describes the extent to which the working-age population experiences economic burden because of supporting older population
What is the Dependency Ratio?
Besides pharmaceutical drugs, this has been used more recently to alleviate symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
What is deep brain stimulation?
Environmental gerontology emphasizes this component when theorizing the aging process.
What is place or the environment?
The risk and resilience factors approach is a part of this perspective.
What is systems?