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Life’s Transitions: The Aging Process
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Redefining Aging
Aging
• Traditionally described at patterns of life changes
• Chronological – life-cycle stages
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Redefining Aging
Gerontology and age characteristics
• Biological age – person’s organs and bodily systems
• Psychological age – adaptive capacities (coping abilities and intelligence)
• Social age – habits and roles relative to societal expectations
• Legal age – based on chronological years
• Functional age – ways in which people compare to others of similar age
How do you see yourself as you age?
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Redefining Aging
Successful aging
• Characteristics
• Young-old, middle-old, old-old
Older adults
• By the year 2030, estimated 71.5 million people age 65 and over
In what ways does our society attempt to delay aging?
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Number of Americans 65 and Older (in Millions)
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Health Issues For An Aging Society
Health care costs
• Out-of-pocket cost has risen by 58% since 1994
• Uninsured/underinsured
• Housing/living arrangements
• Ethical and moral considerations
What challenges will the health insurance industry face as the number of older Americans increases? What other solutions exist for older Americans?
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Theories of Aging
Biological theories
• Wear-and-tear theory
• Cellular theory
• Autoimmune theory
• Genetic mutation theory
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Psychosocial Impacts on Aging
Developmental model
• Progression through 8 critical stages during a lifetime
• Theory of personality development/adaptation and adjustment
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Changes in the Body and Mind
Typical physical changes
• The skin
• Bones and joints
• The head
• The urinary tract
• The heart and lungs
• Eyesight
• Hearing
• Sexual changes (men and women)
• Body comfort
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Changes in the Body and Mind
Typical mental changes
• Intelligence
• Memory
• Adaptability
• Depression
• Senility
• Ageism
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Dementias
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ABC News: Healthy Aging
Discussion Questions
• What kinds of illnesses are thought to benefit from stem cell research?
• Discuss the pros and cons of embryonic stem cell research.
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Video| Healthy Aging
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Health Challenges of Older Adults
Alcohol use and abuse
• Men tend to have higher risk of alcoholism than women
Prescription drug use
• Overuse
• Polypharmacy (multiple meds)
• Rising costs
Over-the-counter remedies
• Cheaper than prescription
• Medicare coverage becoming less adequate
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Strategies for Healthy Aging
Develop and maintain relationships
• Social bonds and support
Enrich the spiritual side of life
• Developing bonds with nature, environment, or higher being
Improve fitness
• Sarcopenia: loss of muscle mass
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Strategies for Healthy Aging
Eat for health
• Calcium
• Vitamin D
• Protein
• Healthy diet should help meet all other nutrient needs
Are you beginning today to prevent problems with bones and muscles, heart and mental health later in life?
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Caring for Older Adults
Comorbidity
Respite Care
Understanding death
• Defining death
• Dying is a process
• Brain death
• Denying death
What euphemisms do we use to deny death in this culture?
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Understanding Death
Dying
• The process of the decline in body functions that results in the death of an organism
Death
• The final cessation of vital functions
Brain death
• Irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brainstem
Denying death
• People do not like to deal with the concept of death and certain avoidance behaviors are practices by many people
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The Process of Dying
Coping emotionally with death
• Five psychological stages
1) Denial
2) Anger
3) Bargaining
4) Depression
5) Acceptance
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The Process of Dying
Corr’s Coping Approach Model
• Physical
• Psychological
• Social
• Spiritual
What do you think? Is it important to help a person get through all these stages?
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The Process of Dying
Social death
• Person not treated as active member of society
• Loss pf being valued or appreciated by others
• Denying a person normal social interaction
Coping with loss
• Bereavement
• Grief
• Mourning
“Normal” grief
• Symptoms
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The Stages and Tasks of Grief
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Coping with Grief
Worden’s Model of Grieving Tasks
• Accept the reality of the loss
• Work through the pain of grief
• Adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing
• Emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life
Have you experienced a death among family or friends? How did you grieve?
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Life-and-Death Decision Making
The right to die
• Refusal of artificial life support techniques
• Living Will - important to write down your wishes
• Be specific
• Get an agent
• Discuss your wishes
• Deliver the directive
Rational suicide
• Active euthanasia
• Passive euthanasia
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ABC News: Dying and Death
Discussion Questions
• Do you feel it is right that the government attempted to get involved in Terri Schiavo situation? Why or why not?
• If Terri would have had a written living will, do you think the controversy over removing her from life support would have existed?
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Making Final Arrangements
Hospice care
• Goals of care
Pressures on survivors
• Making decisions quickly
Making funeral arrangements
• Many different customs
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Making Final Arrangements
Organ donation
Wills
• Intestate
• Holographic will
• Testator
What do you think? What can you do to ensure that your wishes will be carried out at the time of your death?
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Uniform Organ Donor Card