physical changes
A disease caused by severe loss of bone mass, causing bones to become porous and extremely easy to break
What is Osteoperosis?
The skills an individual uses to adapt to physical and social changes
What is practical intelligence?
Individuals high in this tend to experience greater levels of anxiety, self-consciousness and impulsivity
What is Neuroticism?
A person who takes up this role in a family attempts to maintain family bonds by arranging gatherings and keeping in touch
What is a kinkeeper?
People with this behaviour pattern tend to be relaxed, tolerant and easy going, and suffer less heart attacks
What is Type B Behaviour Pattern?
A form of exercise that aims to maintain a heart rate of between 60 - 90% of an individual's maximum heart rate
The theory that the demonstration of practical intelligence depends on optimally exercised ability and unexercised ability
What is Denney's Theory?
The capacity and desire to make improvements for the next generation
What is generativity?
The name given to the middle generation of an extended family who are sometimes referred to as stuck between their parents and children
What is the sandwich generation?
The ability to solve a problem a typical adult should possess with no formal training or practice
What is Unexercised Ability?
The process of menstruation gradually ceasing
What is menopause?
The relationship between the process of thinking and the product of thinking
What is encapsulation?
People high in this trait tend to have a greater imagination, and a strong willingness to try new things
What is openness?
The sense of responsibility many middle adults feel to care for their aging parents
What is filial obligation?
Physical symptoms that cause emotional distress and difficulties functioning
What are somatic symptoms?
Any attempt at dealing with stress
What is coping?
This method of learning has become essential as technology is constantly adapting and new information is constantly discovered
What is lifelong learning?
People high in this trait tend to be hard working, energetic, and are more likely to perservere
What is Conscientiousness?
The dimension of grandparenting in which being a grandparent is the most important element of ones' life
What is centrality?
What is hormone replacement theory?
A gradual onset disease of the joints involving pain and swelling
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
This test assesses an older adult's ability to cook, ingest medication and use a phone in order to determine whether it is safe for them to live on their own
What is the Observed Tasks of Daily Living test?
Individuals with this personality trait are better able to adapt to changes, and tend to cope with changes in midlife with greater levels of success (HINT: Not one of the five factor models)
What is resiliency
Taking the role of a deceased or absent grandparents
What is fictive grandparenting?
A crisis of identity that occurs in middle adulthood
What is a midlife crisis?