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Most elderly women are living lonely; where as in elderly men, half of them are married. * When they become older, they have few friends because of certain things such as vision, hearing problems; thus, they need more family care. * Activity theory of aging: looking at construct of social roles, some have lost spouse roles. * Social roles drop out when aging. * When these older people engaging in different activities, they maintain in healthy ways and they are happier. * When the gas prices go up, these people tend not to go out. Older people like to engage in many things * Disengagement: if older person is volunteering for something, that is good * Life Review: turning inwards to begin to forget in ones life, such as was I good father, was I a good mother, suck like, they go back and think about them. * The best thing to do is: LISTEN to them, which helps them to be better in their lives * Elderly people like to have pets, meaning that they like to be with people all the time; also they have a reason to be with, which helps them to reduce stress. Making comparison is important: because they can look at other and look back at them * Self-esteem: this really matters how they treat others in-terms of happiness. * ============================================================================================= * Social and Cultural issues in Aging:

* This is very bad in US. People in other countries even think that US is really bad at helping other elderly people. * It is true that social security is the only financial help that old people have * There are NINE core cultural values: on the ppt slides. Trait theories of Personality: individuality of difference of some behaviors. * Conscientiousness: these ones work hard and look beautiful, what they called as workaholic people. * ————————————————- Neuroticism: person will say that “I know I will not do well” such as depression, self consciousness Cognitive Functioning * Fluid intelligent test: when you do something that you have no idea what you are doing. – Cross sectional Three things: triangle, * Geometric figure * Serial re-call: there are 12 unrelated words, and once they are presented, you have tell them in the order they are presented * ============================================================================================== * Dementia diseases * Alzheimer- slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, appear after the age of 60, this is NOT a normal part of aging. * Risk Factors of AD- Age, family history, and genetics.

Depression: It is very high for the ones who are living in nursing homes. * You can have sudal dementia between ones who are depressed * People with depression don’t all look the same, they become mute and interest in nothing * Depression is a condition in which one may experience persistent sadness, withdrawal from previously enjoyed activities, and difficulty sleeping and feeling slowed down. * Men and women may see the depression in different way, b/c they experience depression differently. These estimates are underweights because these statistics do not count all the ones who are in depression in days * Men maybe more depressed than women, but it just that they don’t notice * Read the NIMH testimonial on slides: this is important that women tent to come forward than men to come and ask for help and seek for help * Men tend to be physically exhausted than women, but they never tend to express it. * “The Sandwich generation”: because of the changes in the generation, people are getting in to more into this generation as the time moves forward * website: www. pbs. org/theforgetting