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1. Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs
Answer: - Five categories of human needs that motivate human behavior
- physiologic, security and safety, love and belonging, self esteem, self actualization
2. Cohort effect
Answer: enables us to understand older adults from ditterent cultures and ditterent geographical areas
3. In Eriksons older adults will experience what?
Answer: Ego integrity vs. despair-evaluating one's life/accomplishments for meaning
4. Biological Theories
Answer: explain the physiological processes that change with aging, how is aging manifested on the molecular level in the
cells, tissues, and body system.
5. Stochastic (statistical) perspective
, Answer: Identifies episodic events that happen throughout one's life that cause random cell damage and accumulate
over time, causing aging
Includes
Answer: Free radical, cross linking theory, wear and tear
6. Free radical theory
Answer: proposes that aging is due to oxidative metabolism and the ettects of free radicals.
7. Wear and tear theory
Answer: Cumulative changes as cells age and damage cellular metabolism (Example-in- ability to repair damaged DNA --
heart, neurons, striated muscle, brain cant replace after they are destroyed by wear and tear.
8. Nonstochastic perspective
Answer: Aging occurs because of pre-programmed genetic attributes or biological clock
9. Nursing theories of aging
Answer: developed to address the need for providing framework to guide caregivers in nursing homes how to care for the
older people and how to support them in the development process of aging
10. Is a big decline in memory and cognitive ability a part of the normal aging process?
Answer: No; our brains should remain relatively healthy as we age; this could be a separate disease process
11. What are some things that the natural process of aging includes?