set of ideas and beliefs that are associated with discriminatory attitudes directed toward older adults
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baby boom years
1946 - 1964, following world war II
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biological age
where people stand relative to the number of years they will live
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functional age
a person's competence in carrying our specific tasks
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psychological age
how well a person adapts to changing conditions
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social age
the views held by most members of a society regarding what individuals in a particular chronological age group should do and how they should behave
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young-old
ages 65-74
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old-old
ages 75-84
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oldest-old
ages 85+
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organismic varaible
any relative stable characteristic of an organism
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demography
scientific study of populations that focuses on broad groups within a specific population or sometimes across different populations
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ecological model of aging
the relative relation between the personal competence and environmental press from their neighbourhood environment would impact on older adults
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geriatrics
the branch of medicine specializing in the medical care and treatment of the diseases and health problems of older adults
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gerontology
the study of the biological, behavioural, and social phenomena from the point of maturity to old age
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nature and nurture
a long-standing debate in biology and society about the balance between two competing factors which determine fate: genetics and environment
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nonnormative life events
significant, unexpected, and unpredictable events, for a particular individual, which do not follow the predictable developmental pattern of life-cycle
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normative age-graded influences
biological or environmental events and occurrences that are associated with chronological age
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normative history-graded influences
events experienced by a particular culture at a certain period of time
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population pyramid
a bar graph that illustrates how a population is distributed in terms of both age and gender
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selective optimization with compensation (SOC) model of aging
strategy for improving health and well-being in older adults and a model for successful aging
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