BABY BOOMERS
Strong work ethic, Self-assure, Competetive, Goal-Centric, Resourceful, Mentally Focused, Team Oriented, and Disciplined
What are characteristics of a Baby Boomer?
The potential for retraining and learning new skills
What is plasticity?
To avoid an undesired emotional response in a target
What is situation modification?
A legal document in which the principal delegated specified decision-making authority to the agent. Often used to authorize agents to conduct elements of the principal's business or financial affairs.
What is power of attorney?
Bathing, dressing, and preparing meals
What are activities of daily life?
The term baby boomer evokes what
What is a stereotype?
Idea that late life can be a period for positive spiritual growth?
What is conscious aging?
What is Terror Management Theory?
This has been shown to be efficacious in reducing the fear of falling in older people
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
What are balance exercises?
One of the most influential conceptualizations of health aging is referred to as
What is successful aging?
The shared set of expectations about what behavior is proper or "on time" for any specific chronological age
What is social clock?
Central Executive Impairment and frontal lobe dysfunction
What is dementia?
What is the commitment of time and energy for the benefit of society and the community and can take many forms. It is taken freely and by choice without concern for financial gain
What is volunteering?
The body's response to injury due to intense physical activity
What is exercise induced inflammation?
Effects affecting all age groups in society at the same time
What are period effects?
Elderly person, especially one who is retired and living on a pension. In America, the age is considered 65+ but in India the age is 60+
What is a Senior Citizen?
These have been built as platforms for senior citizens to socialize and have proven to improve mental health of elderly in urban communities
What are Community Gathering Spaces (CGS)?
Number of states that require mandatory reporting of elder abuse
What is 42?
The more active people are the more likely they are to be satisfied with life
What is activity theory of aging?
Author of Bobos in Paradise, portraying boomers as aging hippies who have now "sold out" and become materialistic yuppies
Who is David Brooks?
Natural Data Survey that offers a comprehensive examination of America Singles experience with romantic and sexual lives
What is Singles In America (SIA)?
Theory that people's norms, beliefs, and values make up a collective consciousness, or a share way of understanding and behaving in the world.
What is Durkheim's theory?
Individual from the UK that played an active role to develop the research evidence concerning the vale of housing adaptation to support the health and well-being of older people with disabilities
Who is Frances Hayward?
As people grow older they are inclined to maintain as much as they can of the same habits, similarity, and style of life they developed in earlier years
What is the continuity theory of aging?