PSY 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Vascular Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Insomnia
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Final exam: thursday, december 12:20pm in porter 107. Aging stressors facing older populations: physical and cognitive decline, decreasing independence and retirement. Some lose a sense of purpose when they retire insomnia: medical problems and multiple medications, facing mortality, stigma loss and grief. Despite all of this they have lower rates of mental health disorders: not because of difference in generations, less likely to develop a disorder as you get older. Concurrent with this is the life satisfaction and age graph. People with mental illness die before 65 plausible. Learn how to handle life and manage it: could be reporting failures, stigma around mental illness preventing people from admitting they have a problem. Mild cognitive decline is normative: declines in processing speed, working memory, and attention, less decline in crystalized domains. Knowledge of facts or important dates or stories. Things that are more set in stone.
