a medical illness in which a person has persistent feelings of sadness,often with discouragement and a lack of self-worth. It is a widespread problem, but is often not recognized or treated in the elderly.
What is depression?
100
Age range from 65-80
What is young old?
100
In general, these dwellers often have more access to healthcare resoureces and sometimes have younger family members who live near by.
What is Community?
100
The period of one's life after leaving one's job and ceasing to work.
What is retirement?
100
Tackling various needs of older patients in a social context, in which the patients my explore their concerns. Happens particularly with clients in institionalized settings.
What is group therapy?
200
In fact, white males age 85 and older consistently have the highest _______rate than any other age and ethnic group.
What is suicide?
200
Age range from 80-RIP.
What is Old Old?
200
experiste in the fundamental pragmatics of life (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010).
What is wisdom?
200
a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is taken away. You may associate this response to divorce, loss of pet, losing a job, or loss of health.
What is grief
200
Altering dysfunctional views; active problem solving. Thearphy used normally for emotional disorders such as depression or anxiety.
What is cogntive behavioral?
300
When cognitive functioning is so severly impaired that it affects our ability to relate to others and to manage our own daily activities (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010).
What is dementia?
300
Positive___________ increase while negative _________ decrease and begin to level off with age.
What is emotions?
300
Selection, optimization and compensation combined is a processes of successful aging development (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010).
What is selective optimization with compensation?
300
With aging the loss of friends, partners, and relatives increase, but also daily contact with their colleagues. If the elderly is constained by finances or health problems, the opportunities to visit others clubs/social events may be reduced. and
What is isolation?
300
the use of life histories: written, oral, or both; to improve psychological well-being.
What is reminiscence therapy?
400
According to some existential therapists, fear of this is the ultimate source of anxiety and the foundation of most depression and alienation (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010)
What is death?
400
by this year it is predicted that 20% of the older adult population will fall into this age group.
What is 2030?
400
The elderly tend to selectively invest in fewer relations, preserving or changing intimate, intensely nourishing relationships and eliminating more marginal ties (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010).
What is social-emotional experience?
400
The two most common physical changes in older adults?
What is sesnory deficits and onset of pain?
400
Treatment that helps a person work through a greater than normal reaction to a loss, such as the death of a loved one. This reaction may include behavioral and physical problems, extreme mourning, and being unable to separate emotionally from the person who died (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010).
What is grief therapy?
500
Relationships with family members, friends or other community members with whom a person might find comfort, companionship, assistance or guidance.
What is social support?
500
As people age their Big Five Personality Changes: there is a decrease in __________and an increases in ______________.
(Two part answer)
What is neuroticism and conscientiousness?
500
autonomy, personal independence.
What is self-reliance?
500
As we age, we must cope with a variety of setbacks – physical, social, or emotional – that may, over time, affect our ability to function on our own.
What is loss of indepence?
500
The science of optimal human functioning, of what makes people flourish and thrive. A branch of psychology that focuses on 'building what's strong' as opposed to 'fixing what's wrong'.