Empty Nest Syndrome When a significant person in an older persons life leaves many will rejoice and find a chance to reorganize their lives This mostly affects females Sending you to college is fun for your parents ID: 559190
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Ch. 5 Adulthood and Old AgeSlide2
“Empty Nest Syndrome”
When a significant person in an older person’s life leaves many will rejoice and find a chance to reorganize their lives. This mostly affects females.
Sending you to college is fun for your parents.Slide3
“The Change”
Menopause:
the natural ending of a woman’s ability to reproduce led by a lack of estrogen. The following video is how to survive your mother’s menopause.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Om3V-ysu0&feature=fvwrelSlide4
Menopause
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8VWG2X5GI&feature=relatedSlide5
Marriage and Divorce
90% of adults in the United States will get married.
40 to 60% will end in divorce.
What makes it last?
1. how couples handle conflicts2. how often couples share intimate and happy moments.
forum.xbitlabs.comSlide6
Generativity
The desire to pass on one’s knowledge to future generations.
How could Robin exist without Batman?Slide7
Stagnation
A discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past.
Remember Pogs?Slide8
Do old people have sex?
The answer is yes! Studies have shown that sexual activity does not automatically decline with age.
Life Expantancy
Women tend to live longer by 4 years. Avg. age is 75.Slide9
http://www.emailgoodies.faketrix.com/pics-funny-sayings-poems-humor-picture-6-cat-in-the-hat-on-old-age.htmSlide10
Senile Demetia
Senile Dementia- is a collective term that describes conditions characterized by memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation of time and place, a decline in the ability to think, impaired attention, altered personality, and difficulties in relating to others.
One of the most common forms of Senile Dementia is Alzheimer's.Slide11
Alzheimer’s Disease
A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, language and physical functioning.
Runs its course in 5 to 20 years.
Deterioration of neurons that produce the neurotransmitter
….Charlie, Gabby, Josh F. this is for you:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alzheimers
Acetylcholine
Estrogen supplements may stop the onset of
Alzheimer’s Disease
.
Taken from appsychology.comSlide12
Alzheimers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wv9jrk-gXcSlide13
My Name is Lisa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRHyzjb5SISlide14
Old People
jokesmantra.comSlide15
Decremental model of aging
–which holds that progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age.Ageism
– prejudice against the old.
One misconception is that older people are in inflexible or senile.
Young people believe the aged withdraw from life and sit around doing nothing…Attitudes Toward AgingSlide16
Do old people get stupid?
Cross-sectional studies show decline.
Longitudinal Studies show consistency.
What is the difference?
Cross-sectional studies: study with people of different ages studied at the same time.
Longitudinal Studies: same people studied and retested over a period of time
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Taken from appsychology.comSlide17
But there are different types of intelligence.
Crystallized intelligence
:
one’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
Fluid Intelligence:
one’s ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.Slide18
There are 1 million old people who can no longer take care for themselves, are in institutions
15% of males and 25% of females are in nursing homes
Kaitlyn
BoyettSlide19
Dying and Death
Elizabeth Kubler
Ross
studied
Thantology. Thantology is the study of death and dying. She came up with the 5 Stages of Death. This is 5 stages someone might go through when confronted with death.1. denial2. anger3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptanceSlide20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Z3lmidmrYSlide21
Hospice
Hospice is a special place where the terminally ill people go to die. The hospice is designed to look less like a hospital. Dr.’s do not prolong life. There is also hospice that goes out and services people in their home.Slide22
Discussion for tomorrow:
Following topics are up for grabs. 2 or 3 people can sign up and come tomorrow with two very controversial questions and a little background on your subject.
1. Funeral Homes
(prices for funerals, types, should govt. pay for funeral’s or mandate funeral homes?)
2. Nursing Homes (avg. prices, video’s)3. Assisted Suicide4. Life Support Machines5. Marriages, Divorces6. Children of divorced parents7. Retirement
8. Health Benefits for the elderlySlide23
Letter to your Grandchild
Erikson talks about as you get older you go through the final Psychosocial Stage:
Generativity
vs. Stagnation:
The desire to pass on one’s knowledge to future generations.Your job now is to pretend you are age 91.34 and you are writing a letter to a grandchild and you are telling them what you learned in life. Go..