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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 different cultures and different
geographical areas
3. In Eriksons older adults will experience what?
Answer> Ego integrity vs. despair-eval- uating one's life/accomplishments for
meaning
4. BiologicalTheories
Answer> explain the physiological processes that change with aging, how is aging
manifested on the molecular level in the cells, tissues, and body system.
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, 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
Free radical, cross linking theory, wear and tear
6. Free radical theory
Answer> proposes that aging is due to oxidative metabolism and the effects of free
radicals.
7. Wear and tear theory
Answer> Cumulative changes as cells age and damage cellular metabolism
(Example-inability 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 frame- work to guide
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