Chapter 1

First day house cleaning

Sunday quiz is due for chapter 1

5 question quizzes

• 2 points per question

• 130 points total

15 minutes

Respondus

• If you miss a test you get a 0

• no late work

Chapter a week

every 4 weeks exam

Saturday after it’s due

midterm is due week after spring break

Final is Comprehensive

No late/extra credit work and no reviews

class on monday and wed

all on blackboard

no Doc on Fridays

Don’t contact through blackboard

• email only

PLG 216 to the right

• M/W 12-1

• T/R 11-1

4 exams

Chapter 1 fr this time

• study of old/ old age

• 65=old bc of social security

  • APS

    • Adult protective services

  • CPS

    • Child protective services

• 65 is a random number thats arbitrary

• Aging has been under researched

  • Frued goes up to childhood in his developmental model bc he believes that those formative years

    • Frued is a FREAK but says

      • Development stops when you’re an adult

      • Changed DO happen tho

      • raising a family, career, loss, etc

  • Interpersonal Variability

    • education

    • culture

    • health

    • lifestyle

Lifestyle

• Americans consume about a pound of sugar every year

  • Now it’s a DAY

Think Generativity v Stagnation

• Erik Erikson

Physical Aging/ Biological Aging

• which can be accelerated with lifestyle and diet

• Medical problems can arise

Abraham Maslow

• Hierarchy of needs

If someone gets stuck on one of the rungs of the ladder then they start having emotional issues

Mental Age

• Most cultures value the elderly

  • Wisdom and life experience

• knowledge is knowing facts

• Wisdom is when and when NOT to use it

• In western culture we discard the elderly

  • Retirement homes

  • The streets

  • Abuse

Psychologically things start changing

• friends start passing (away)

• quince → bridal shower → Baby shower → Funeral

• thoughts about your own finality

  • If you create interdependence and they pass then you start feeling a lack of meaning in your life because you built up your value in being their friend

• Watch Cast away

  • his fiancé kept him motivated

  • to the point he manages to leave the island

• Mans search for meaning by Viktor franko

  • Read!!

  • When people lose meaning in their life they start thinking of dying and lose the will of live

  • the thought of reuniting with his family kept him going

  • You need a reason

  • Fredrick Nietzsche

    • if you have a why you can survive any how

MEANING OF LIFE AND LIFESTYLE IS SUPER IMPORTANT

• white elderly men are at a very high risk of suicide

  • America values individualism

  • Songs praising individualism ingrained in us

Losing what you built up yourself leads to loss of MEANING

Age can be diced up in different ways all of which depend on what you wanna focus

50-60ish - young old

60s-75 - old

80s-beyond - oldest old

Parkinson’s and decline in cognitive abilities is NOT NORMAL

Alzheimers is Diabetes type 3

our food and such have rampant affect on these issues