Chapter 13
This country has the lowest amount of paid parental leave.
What is the U.S.?
What is congruence?
This theory states that as people get older, their stress hormones stay elevated, which in turn increases the risk of various health conditions and cognitive decline.
What is the hormonal stress theory of aging?
This is the experience of positive emotions such as happiness and is more common as we age.
What is positive affect?
This dying trajectory is when decline occurs with fluctuations over time.
What is Organ Failure?
This intelligence decreases with age and is responsible for complex skills, problem-solving, logic, reasoning, creativity, and short-term memory.
What is Fluid intelligence?
This type of love is when a couple has passion and commitment.
What is Fatuous Love?
This theory of aging states unstable molecules cause damage that accumulates over the lifespan, resulting in many problems associated with aging.
What is free radicals?
These are people who take on the responsibility of keeping family members connected.
What are Kinkeepers?
This is when someone with a terminal illness seeks out information about their problem, even if it represents bad news.
What is Monitoring?
This is when the lens in our eye becomes less flexible in middle adulthood.
What is Presbyopia?
What is an egalitarian marriage?
This is a rare genetic condition that causes many health problems, shorter life expectancy, and shorter than typical telomeres.
What is Progeria?
What is retirement?
This is when a person is viewed as no longer part of society whether by choice or being excluded.
What is social death?
What is low-density lipoprotein?
These are middle age adults who are contributing to the care of their children and their aging parents.
What is the sandwich generation?
This vision problem causes blurring and potential loss of vision in the center of the vision field due to damage to the retina.
What is macular degeneration?
This living environment is when older adults stay in their home as they are able to take care of their ADLs.
What is aging in place?
This is provided to people with uncurable disease or whose treatment would produce more suffering than it relieves.
What is Hospice Care?
What is the positivity effect?
This describes divorces that occur over the age fifty.
What is Gray Divorce?
This type of dementia is the third most common type and includes visual hallucinations, difficulty paying attentions and difficulty with thinking and judgement.
What is Lewy Body Dementia?
This theory states that older adults will narrow down what they do to what they like, focus on skills they value and adjust to continue doing those things.
What is selection, optimizations, and compensation theory?
These are the behaviors following the loss of a loved one.
What is mourning?