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| services of long term care |
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| medical, therapy, rehabilitation, care coordicnation, protective supervision, assistance with activities of daily living, meal prep, shopping, transportation |
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| home/community based care |
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| allows professional nursing and therapy services that are usually provided in a hospital of other health facility to be provided in the home and community |
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| medical services that address a recent illness or injury or a necessary preventative procedure |
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| long term institutional care |
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| encompasses services provided in residential facilities like nursing homes, hospitals, and intermediate care facilities |
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| created in 1965 as America's National Health Insurance, eligibility based on age or disability level |
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| medicare pays 75% of prescription costs from $251-$2250; pays up to 95% once beneficiary reaches annual out of pocket amount; beneficiary payments will count towards annual out of pocket amount |
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| theory of person-environment interaction |
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| expereince is directed by genotypes. people help create environments and seek goodness of fit. genotypic differences are propsed to affect phenotypic differences, both directly and through experience via 3 kinds of genotype -> environment effects |
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| person-environment congruence through environments provided by biologically related parents (stimulating nursery) |
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| person-environment congruence through responses elicited by individuals from others (smiling, cuddly baby) |
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| person-environment congruence through selection of different environments by different people (choosing schools, friends, places to live) |
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| kahana's congruence model |
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| gene-environment relationship is a bit of all three types, programs should fit person, burden falls to caregivers and facilities, funding implications |
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| perceived loss of control is unhealthy, so the elderly are given more control (suggestion box, movie nights, etc.). the results were that the elderly were more alert, relational, health improvements, reduction in mortality |
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| labeling of residents, reinforced incompetence, routine, patronizing speech |
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| socially connected, cognitively active, healthy lifestyle, financially independent |
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| preventing disease in general through vaccines and healthy living |
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| early detection of disease - disease screening |
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| preventing complications in illness/disease so that people can get the most out of life with disease |
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| prevent worst outcomes like disability or dependency |
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| episodic memory is nearly perfect, working memory and rote memory not so great |
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| shrinks in late adulthood, leading to impaired memory and increased risk for dementia; aerobic exercise training is effective at reversing hippocampal volume loss in late adulthood, which is accompanied by improved memory function. |
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| encoding, storage, retrieval |
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| passive retention of information held for 30 seconds or longer (reemmber this phone number for as longas it takes to use it) |
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| all processes and structures involved in an active effort to retain and use information in order to solve a problem, make a decision or learn something new |
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| attention is compromised (cant screen out intruding thoughts or cues from the environment) and/or processing speed is compromised (takes longer to encode info so recall is incomplete) |
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| unintentional response to a cue (priming) |
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| trying to recall information. age impairs this more. |
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| storage of facts and recall for events |
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| storage of facts; after 65 years there is gradual decline; general information remains stable |
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| recall of events; performance declines after 60 years; most elements recalled are correct, just not connected in correct manner; reconstructions of accurate and inaccurate info |
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| how to do things; age doesnt impact this much, but can impact speed of performance |
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| vivid memories that seem like they are encoded as exact representations of events; personal relevance enhances accuracy |
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| we are all subject to it, gradually more susceptible with age, source memory, distraction during encoding, false memories |
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| context is key (people remember when placed in familiar context) |
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| remembering to remember - taking pills, meeting people |
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| evaluation of memory abilities |
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| men tend to trust memory more than women, we overestimate recall and underestimate recognition |
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| thinking about memory. "I'm getting older so I can't remember as much so I won't expend the energy to try" |
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| confidence aids recall but there is a point of diminishing returns |
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| graduated presentation of material based on successful prior performance |
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| spaced retrieval and vanishing cue methods can aid early AD patients, but not advanced AD patients |
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| dual influences of nature and nurture on intelligence, differences in brain structures are related to intelligence |
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| emphasized the fact that individuals differed in intelligence. he added the idea of developmental differences in intelligence that could be quantified in terms of aging |
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| different tests of intelligence all measured a common ability, g. |
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| demonstrated that large-scale psychological testing of groups was feasible. demonstrated use of psychological testing for purposes other than general intellectual assessment and school placement |
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| wechsler adult intelligence scale |
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| commonly used intelligence test whose combined verbal and performance subtest scores yield an IQ score |
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| construct of intelligence |
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| rapid processing, retrieval, manipulation of information; ability to think abstractly and solve complex problems using reasoning and comprehension skills; ability to do a wide variety of tasks, as opposed to one specialized task. |
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| skillful use of oral language as in story-telling, teaching, public speaking, and of written language as in poetry, prose, and journalism |
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| logical-mathematical intelligence |
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| ability to think quantitatively; pose and solve mathematical problems; use logic and reason to solve problems in science/engineering, etc. |
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| ability to locate objects in three-dimensional space, to visualize them from multiple perspectives and orientations, and to pose and solve mazes using an internal compass |
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| ability to sing, play musical instruments, and compose music |
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| ability to dance and play competitve sports, and skillfully control fingers and arms in tasks such as typing, playing musical instrument, or performing surgery |
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| interpersonal intelligence |
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| ability to understand, motivate, and "read" other people in a way that facilitates social interactions. |
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| intrapersonal intelligence |
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| ability to gain insight into one's thoughts and feelings, to understand the causes for and consequences of one's actions, and to apply that knowledge in decision making. |
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| academic intelligence. language, math, subject of traditional IQ tests |
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| divergent thinking - finding unique solutions to problems by viewing erlationships in new ways |
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| common sense - using tacit knowledge to recognize and reformulate poorly defined problems |
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| hertiability of intelligence |
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| effect of environment on IQ is important in childhood, but becomes increasingly unimportant in adulthood |
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| intelligences across 5 abilities increases through the 40s, stabilizes until 60s and then declines through the 80s |
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| secondary mental abilities |
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| applications of several primary activities. |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| cultured, academia, big picture associations |
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| abstract problem solving, mental flexibility |
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| musical ability, auditory figure-ground |
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| verbal, spatial. iq scores reflect a strong working memory, intact perceptual abilities and strong visual organization abilities |
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| behavior is controlled through mental organizations called schemes that the individual uses to represent the world and designate action |
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| use current knowledge/schemes to make sense of new information |
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| changing one's thinking/schemes to conform to the real world |
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| piaget's first stage from birth-2; touchy feely, object permanence |
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| piaget's second stage from 2-7; egocentric, coincidental logic |
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| concrete operational stage |
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| piaget's thrid stage from 7-11; categories emerge, conservation, not abstract |
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| piaget's fourth stage from 11+; abstraction, logical thought |
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| information processing perspective |
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| assumes people are reflective and act on what they know, processed through stages |
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| first level of information processing, large capacity of limited duration |
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| process of choosing to what we give attention. primary to secondary appraisal involves novelty and relevance |
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| how well can we focus on task performance over time; relates to practice and experience; secondary and reappraisal requires this. |
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| how much information can be processed at a time; secondary appraisal and reappraisal depends on this |
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| experience enhances ability to attend by avoiding irrelevant cues |
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| all available resources on task |
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| advantages of distraction |
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| instructed adults told to ignore distracting words in prose, distractions were answers to questions posed after the reading, older people did better |
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| loss of thinking skills; what happens to a person when they have changes in the brain due to disease or damage |
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| disease processes destroy brain cells, disruption of blood flow to brain |
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| gradually destroys memory, ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. caused by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles |
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| deterioration/shrinkage in the front/side of the brain; language skills, attention, decision making, and impulse control all affected; weight gain, decline in social skills |
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| dementia with lewy bodies |
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| abnormal protein deposits that cause memory loss, confusion, difficulty communicating, hallucinations, paranoia |
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| progressive disease of CNS; caused by degneration of dopamine-containing brain cells; symptoms are tremors, stiffness in joints, speech problems, and difficulty moving |
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| creutzfeldt jakob disease |
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| rapid, progressive dementia and neuromuscular distrubances; probably caused by prion (infectious protein); symptoms are memory, behavior change, lack of coordination |
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| proteinaceous infectious particle consisting of protein and transforms normal protein molecules into infectious ones |
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| inherited, degnerative brain disease; involuntary movement of limbs or facial muscles, difficulty concentrating, memory disturbance, slurred speech, personality change |
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| disruption of blood flow to the brain; symptoms are confusion, memory issues, incontinence, emotional problems and difficulty following instructions |
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| marked fluctuations in cognitive impairment over the course of a day, disruptions in consciousness and attention |
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| some neurons shrink and die, tangles/plaques, inflammation increases brain tissue, free radicals |
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| problems with recognition of objects |
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| loss of ability to start or stop things |
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