PSYC 362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maximum Life Span, Olfactory Bulb, Coronary Artery Disease
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Normative aging - physical changes that occur in everyone with the passage of time. Optimal (successful) aging- type of aging possible under optimal personal and environmental conditions (are blessed genetically, best athlete, where is the average person their age and what is expected to their age) Pathological aging- aging with a clear evidence of illness (not just diagnosis) Aging does not equal disease (just cause they are getting older they do not get sicker) Survival rates if maximum life span is limited. U. s adults 65: heart disease chronic, cancer chronic, stroke chronic, chronic lower respiratory diseases, alzheimer"s disease, diabetes, unintentional injury. Compression of morbidity: delay onset of illness, death will usually occur before disability is severe, focus on prevention (vs. cure) of chronic disease fewer years spent suffering. Biological theories of aging: biological perspective: aging is a predictable, progressive, universal deterioration of physiological systems, gene or environment making us age, 2 categories of biological theories, genetic (programmed, nongenetic (stochastic)
