01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Heart Failure, Dementia
18 Apr 2017
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Will be unhappy experience more positive emotions than young people (age 18-30) Cope poorly with troubles only mild decline with cognitive functioning. Focus on poor health and will be lonely normally older people shift their social circle to smaller groups family and close friends. Social stress of stigmatizing attitudes toward the elderly (doctors sometime treat older people with less interest why spend time with this patient if he"s going to die soon . Cumulative effects of a lifetime of unfortunate experiences. Polypharmacy (if they have multiple medications, they may forget what the last dose they took was and may take again and that can cause problems) Most psychoactive drug is tested on younger people the effects are going to be different with younger and older people important conduct research on different age group. Age effects: things that they all have in common (e. g. social security) Cohort effects: growing up in a particular time period.
