PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Assisted Living, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Diminution
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Subjective age bias: the tendency by most people (including older adults) to report that they feel younger than they actually are. Younger subjective age usually linked with greater life satisfaction and positive outcomes. Ageism: discrimination against any person, young or old, based on chronological age. Especially severe for women due to devalued nature of aging for women in society. Popular misconceptions that intellectual deterioration is prevalent and inevitable, depression among old people is widespread, and loss of sexual function is a lost cause. Even family physicians feel less prepared to identify older patients with psychological problems than younger patients with them. Old defined as those over the age of 65 (set by social policies, not because it is a critical point at which aging begins) Growing at a rate of 3. 5% in canada compared to general growth of 1% Projections that by 2050, 21% of the world will be 60+ Issues, concepts, and methods in the study of older adults.
