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| Any physical or psychological event or condition that produces physical or emotional reactions. |
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| The physical and emotional reactions to a stressor. |
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| The general physical and emotional state that accompanies the stress response. |
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| The branch of the nervous system that controls basic body processes; consists of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divions. |
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| A division of the autonomic nervous system that moderates the excitatory effect of the synergetic division, showing metabolism and restoring energy supplies. |
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| A divison of the autonomic nervous set stem that reacts to danger and other challenges by almost instantly accelerating body processes. |
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| A neurotransmitter released by sympathetic nervous systeem onto target tissues to increase their function in the face of increased activity; when released by the brain, causes arousal (increased attention, awareness and alertness)also called noradrenaline. |
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| The system of glands, tissue and cells that secrete hormones into the bloodstream to influence metabolism and other body processes. |
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| A checmical messenger produced in the body and transported by the bloodstream to target cells or organs for specific regulation of their activities |
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| A checmical messenger produced in the body and transported by the bloodstream to target cells or organs for specific regulation of their activities. |
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| A steroid hormone secreted by the cortex (outer layer)!of the adrenal gland; also called hydrocortisone. |
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| A hormone secreted by the medulla (iner core) of the adrenal gland that affects the functioning of the organs involved responding to a stressor ; also called adrenaline. |
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| Brain secretions that have plan-inhabiting effects. |
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| Fight-or-Flight Reactions |
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| A defense reaction that prepares an individual for conflict or escape by triggering hormonal, cardiovascular, metabolic and other changes. |
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| A state of stability and consistency in an indvidual's physiological functioning. |
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| The branch of the priphral nervous system that governs motor functions and sensory information; largely under our conscious control. |
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| The sum of behavioral, cognitive and emotional tendencies. |
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| A culturally expected pattern of behavior and attitudes determined by whether a person is male or female. |
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| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
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| A pattern of stress responses consisting of 3 stages: alarm, resistance and exhaustion. |
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| Stress resulting from a pleasant stressor. |
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| Stresss resulting from an unpleasant stressor. |
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| A part of the brain that activates, controls and integrate the autonomic mechanisms, doctrine activities and many body functions. |
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| The long-term negative impact of the stress response of the body. |
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| Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) |
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| The study of the interactions among the nervous, endocrine and immune systems. |
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| Stress immidately following a stressor; may last only minutes or may turn into chronic stress. |
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| A stress that continues for days, weeks or even longer. |
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| A state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. |
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| Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep |
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| The portion of the sleep cycle during which dreaming occurs. |
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| A lack of sleep over a period of time. |
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| A sleep problem involving the inability to fall or stay asleep. |
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| The interruption of normal breathing during sleep. |
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| A physiological state characterized by a feeling of warmth and quit mental alertness. |
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| A technique for promoting relaxation or improving performance that involves creating or re-creating vivid mental pictures of a place or an experience; also called imagery. |
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| A technique for quieting the mind by focusing on a particular word, object (such as a candle flame), or process (such as breathing). |
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| A technique for quieting the mind by focusing on a particular word, object (such as a candle flame), or process (such as breathing). |
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| A technique in which monitoring devices are used to help a person become conscious of unconscious body processes, such as body temparure or blood pressure, in order to excert some control over them. |
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| Mental health, defined negatively as the absence of illness or positively as the presence of wellness. |
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| The highest level of growth in Maslow’s hierarchy. |
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| The ideas, feelings, and perceptions one has about oneself; also called self-image. |
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| Satisfaction and confidence in oneself; the valuing of oneself as a person. |
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| Independence; the sense of being self-directed. |
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| A feeling state involving some combination of thoughts, physiological changes, and an outward expression or behavior. |
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| The capacity to indentify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. |
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| Internal confusion about who one is. |
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| Criteria for judging what is good and bad, which underlie an individual’s moral decisions and behavior. |
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| A pattern of thinking that makes events seem worse than they are. |
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| The statements a person makes to himself or herself. |
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| A mental mechanism for coping with conflict or anxiety. |
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| The tendency to expect an unfavorable outcome. |
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| The tendency to expect a favorable outcome. |
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| Expression that is forceful but not hostile. |
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| A feeling of fear that is not directed toward any definite threat. |
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| A persistent and excessive fear of a specific object, activity, or situation. |
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| An excessive fear of being observed by others; speaking in public is the most common example. |
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| A syndrome of severe anxiety attacks accompanied by physical symptoms. |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by fear of being alone and away from help, and avoidance of many different places and situations; in extreme cases, a fear of leaving home. From the Greek for “fear of the public market.” |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable worry about all kinds of things and anxiety in many situations. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by uncontrollable, recurring thoughts and the performing of senseless rituals. |
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| A recurrent, irrational, unwanted thought or impulse. |
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| An irrational, repetitive, forced action, usually associated with an obsession. |
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| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by reliving traumatic events through dreams, flashbacks, and hallucinations. |
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| An emotional disturbance that is intense and persistent enough to affect normal function; two common mood disorders are depression and bipolar disorder. |
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| A mood disorder characterized by loss of interest, sadness, hopelessness, loss of appetite, disturbed sleep, and other physical symptoms. |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| The use of electric shock to induce brief, generalized seizures; used in the treatment of selected psychological disorders. |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| A mood disorder characterized by seasonal depression, usually occurring in winter, when there is less daylight. |
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| A mood disorder characterized by excessive elation, irritability, talkativeness, inflated self-esteem, and expansiveness. |
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| A mental illness characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania. |
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| A psychological disorder that involves a disturbance in thinking and in perceiving reality. |
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| Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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| A disorder characterized by persistent, pervasive problems with inattention and/or hyperactivity to a degree that is not considered appropriate for a child’s developmental stage and that causes significant difficulties in school, work, or relationships. |
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| Anything that causes a response. |
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| Increasing the future probability of a response by following it with a reward. |
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| A therapeutic technique for treating fear in which the subject learns to come into direct contact with a feared situation. |
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| Comminly refers to 2 different things- Situations that ttriger physical .and emotional reactions. |
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| Comminly refers to 2 different things- Situations that ttriger physical .and emotional reactions. |
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| Reactions themselves, stress response, nervous system and sympathetic branch of automatic nervous system endocrine system. |
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| Adrenal glands are activated releasing certisol and epireprne. |
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| Overcompetitive, controling impatient, aggressive, hostile and cynical. |
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Relaxed, competitive, less hurried, not frustrated
by daily events, big picture, more tolerant and does not have a hard time with leisure. |
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| Anger suppression, difficulting expressing feelings,exaggerated response to minor stressors, hopelessness and despair. |
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| Negative, anxious,depressed, irritable and CVD. |
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| Medical technologies, such as the respirator, that allow vital body functions to be artificially sustained. |
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| A medical determination of death as the cessation of brain activity indicated by various diagnostic criteria, including a flat EEG reading. |
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| Electroencephalogram (EEG) |
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| A record of the electrical activity of the brain (brain waves). |
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| A determination of death made according to accepted metrical criteria. |
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| Mature Understanding of Death |
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| The recognition that death is universal and irreversible, that it involves the cessation of all physiological functioning, and that there are biological reasons for its occurrence. |
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| The notion that human beings survive in some form after the death of the physical body. |
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| A legal instrument expressing a person’s intentions and wishes for the disposition of his or her property after death. |
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| The money, property, and other possessions belonging to a person. |
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| The person who makes a will. |
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| Referring to the situation in which a person dies without having made a legal will. |
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| A form of medical care aimed at reducing the intensity or severity of a disease by controlling pain and other discomforting symptoms. |
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| A program of care for dying patients and their families. |
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| Persistent Vegetative State |
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| A condition of profound unconsciousness in which a person lacks normal reflexes and is unresponsive to external stimuli, lasting for an extended period with no reasonable hope of improvement. |
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| The practice of withholding (not starting) or withdrawing (stopping) treatment that could potentially sustain a person’s life, with the recognition that, without such treatment, death is likely to occur. |
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| Physician-aAsisted Suicide (PAS) |
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| The practice of a physician intentionally providing, at the patient’s request, lethal drugs or other means for a patient to hasten death with the understanding that the patient plans to use them to end his or her life. |
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| A situation in which a harmful effect occurs as an unintended side effect of a beneficial action, such as when medication intended to control a patient’s pain has the unintended result of causing the patient's death. |
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| A deliberate act intended to end another person’s life; voluntary active euthanasia involves the practice of a physician administering—at the request of a patient—medication or some other intervention that causes death. |
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| Any statement made by a competent person about his or her choices for medical treatment should he or she become unable to make such decisions or communicate them in the future. |
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| A type of advance directive that allows individuals to provide instructions about the kind of medical care they wish to receive if they become unable to participate in treatment decisions. |
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| A type of advance directive that allows an individual to appoint another person as an agent in making health care decisions in the event he or she becomes unable to participate in treatment decisions; also known as a durable power of attorney for health care. |
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| The agent or substitute decision maker appointed by a person to act on his or her behalf by means of a health care proxy. |
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| A consent form authorizing the use of the signer’s body parts for transplantation or medical research upon his or her death. |
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| The process of removing blood and other fluids and replacing them with chemicals to disinfect and temporarily retard deterioration of a corpse. |
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| iddle knowledge A state of knowing when a person both acknowledges the reality of a threatening situation and maintains hope for a positive outcome. |
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| The duration and nature of a person’s experience in approaching death as influenced by the underlying cause of dying. |
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| A person's reaction to loss as manifested physically, emotionally, mentally, and behaviorally. |
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| The objective event of loss. |
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| The process whereby a person actively copes with grief in adjusting to a loss and integrating it into his or her life. |
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| he ability to develop a solution when confronted with a new problem. |
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| A disease in which fluid inside the eye is under abnormally high pressure; can lead to loss of peripheral vision and blindness |
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| Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) |
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| A deterioration of the macula (the central area of the retina) leading to blurred vision and sensitivity to glare; some cases can lead to blindness. |
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| The inability of the eyes to focus sharply on nearby objects, caused by a loss of elasticity of the lens that occurs with advancing age. |
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| Opacity of the lens of the eye that impairs vision and can cause blindness. |
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| Inflammation of a joint or joints, causing pain and swelling. |
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| The loss of bone density, causing bones to become weak, porous, and more prone to fractures. |
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| Deterioration of mental functioning (including memory, concentration, and judgment) resulting from a brain disorder; often accompanied by emotional disturbances and personality changes. |
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| A disease characterized by a progressive loss of mental functioning (dementia), caused by a degeneration of brain cells. |
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| The average length of time a person is expected to live. |
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| A theoretically projected length of life based on the maximum potential of the human body in the best environment. |
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| The period of life when one is generally healthy and free from chronic or serious disease. |
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| A government program that provides financial assistance to people who are unemployed, disabled, or retired (and over a certain age); financed through taxes on business and workers. |
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| One who studies the biological, psychological, and social phenomena associated with aging or old age. |
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| A physician specializing in the diseases, disabilities, and care of older adults. |
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| A physician specializing in the diseases, disabilities, and care of older adults. |
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| One who studies the biological, psychological, and social phenomena associated with aging or old age. |
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| A government program that provides financial assistance to people who are unemployed, disabled, or retired (and over a certain age); financed through taxes on business and workers. |
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| One who studies the biological, psychological, and social phenomena associated with aging or old age. |
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| The period of life when one is generally healthy and free from chronic or serious disease. |
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| A theoretically projected length of life based on the maximum potential of the human body in the best environment. |
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| The period of life when one is generally healthy and free from chronic or serious disease. |
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