Psych of Aging Exam Four Dozier MSSTATE

T/F: All caregivers receive formal financial compensation

False

What kinds of burden come up with caregiving?

Financial, emotional, and physical

Community living centers are associated with

The veteran's health administration

Adult Day Services

A facility for older adults to be watched during the day

Respite Care

Provides family caregivers with a break while allowing older adults to receive needed support services

Rights of nursing home residents

Be treated with respect

participate in activities

Be free from discrimination

Be free from abuse and neglect

Be free from restraints

Make complaints

Get proper medical care

Get information on fees and services

Manage your money

Get proper privacy, property, and living arrangements

Spend time with visitors

Get social services

Leave the nursing home

Have protection against unfair transfer, treatment, or discharge

Form or participate in resident groups

Have your friends and family invovled

Aging in place

Principle that with appropriate services, older adults can remain in their own homes or communities

According to the concept of ____ older adults can remain in their homes or communities without being institutionalized

Aging in place

Death Ethos

A culture's prevailing philosophy of death

Treatment of the dying

Funeral rites

Belief in the afterlife

Representation in the arts

Social conventions and language

What are your culture's example of death ethos? Do you perceive any generational changes to how your culture's death ethos is changing?

What is a living will?

Statement that stipulates the conditions under which patients will accept or refuse treatment if they are unable to make their own decisions

What are humanity's two primary motivations according to Meaning Management Theory

To survive and to find a reason for survival

Five stages of dying

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance

What is our paradox of well-being

Older adults deal with a lot of physical and cognitive decline but have a higher subjective well-being than younger people

What does successful aging mean to you, and how will you know if you've done it?

What is a creative activity you currently do or like to start doing, and how does it incorporate two of the ten key elements for cognitive enhancement?

Ten key elements for cognitive enhancement

Physical activity

Mental challenge and stimulation

Social interaction, bonding, and support

The need to acquire and refine new skills

Activities that are multi-modal and combinatorial

Enriched and stimulating environments

The room to fail and the wisdom to learn from failure

Sufficient challenge to create mild (beneficial) stress

Pleasure, fun, and challenging play

Reward

BQ: Please share something you learned in this class that changed how you feel about aging or something you found interesting.