LATE ADULTHOOD (65+)
This is the age U.S. culture typically identifies as the beginning of retirement.
What is age 65?
Dementia is primarily defined as the loss of these cognitive abilities to the point they disrupt daily life.
What are thinking, remembering, and reasoning?
He first formally accepted dementia as a medical diagnosis in 1797.
Who is Philippe Pinel?
Alzheimer’s is the cause of this percentage range of all dementia cases.
What is 60–80 percent?
Caregivers in Illinois, over 300,000 of them, face rising levels of this mental health challenge.
What is depression?
These natural physical declines include reduced bone density, flexibility, and sensory processing.
What are physical deteriorations that occur in late adulthood?
These behavioral and emotional changes often accompany dementia as personality shifts occur.
What are emotional dysregulation and personality changes?
This neurologist identified the hallmark plaques and tangles associated with presenile dementia in 1906.
Who is Dr. Alois Alzheimer?
These two abnormal brain structures are the biological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.
What are amyloid plaques and tau tangles?
These monthly care costs are the highest among senior living options, often reaching $8,000–$10,000 in Illinois.
What are nursing home costs?
This part of Erikson’s eighth stage involves looking back on one’s life with peace, satisfaction, and gratitude.
What is integrity?
This term describes dementia’s impact on a person’s emotional regulation, often resulting in irritability, confusion, or sudden mood shifts.
What are emotional and behavioral changes?
In 2021, this was the approximate number of people worldwide living with dementia.
What is 57 million?
Alzheimer’s differs from dementia because Alzheimer’s is specifically this.
What is a distinct, diagnosable brain disorder?
As dementia progresses, many families face this major financial strain due to medical bills, long-term care, medications, and home-health services.
What is the financial burden of dementia care?
This describes the emotional outcome when an older adult reflects on their life as unproductive or disappointing.
What is despair?
Ancient records from this early civilization described age-related memory decline as early as 2000 B.C.
What is Ancient Egypt?
In 2019, this was the global financial cost associated with dementia.
What is $1.3 trillion?
This brain region shows the earliest decline in Alzheimer’s due to its role in forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Families often experience this relationship shift where children or spouses become full-time caregivers.
What is a role reversal?
During late adulthood, this virtue emerges from a reflective process in Erikson’s “Integrity vs. Despair” stage.
What is wisdom?
This Turkish physician differentiated dementia from delirium by describing dementia as a chronic, irreversible disorder.
Who is Aretheus?
This gender both experiences higher dementia-related mortality and provides 70% of caregiving.
What are women?
Unlike Alzheimer’s, this type of dementia is known for early personality or language changes.
What is frontotemporal dementia?
These home changes, such as grab bars and alarms, represent this type of dementia-related spending.
What are home modification costs?