PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Ageism, Prefrontal Cortex, Cardiovascular Disease
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Chapter 14: late adulthood: biosocial and cognitive changes. Ageism: perception is different than reality, ageism (butler, 1998) Ageism is pigeon-holding people and not allowing them to be individuals with unique ways of living their lives . Late adulthood: senescence: primary aging = irreversible changes that occur with time, secondary aging= changes caused by particular conditions and/or illness, all the major body systems become slower and less efficient. Compression of morbidity limit the time a person spends ill. *research suggests that one reason centenarians live longer is because they have spent more years without illness! Bodies change as we age, but how old is someone who can : work out 1 hours each day on weights, and swim or walk hour each day. Aage 90: swim length of the gold gate bridge underwater with 140 lbs of equipment, including 2 air tanks world record. Age 40: perform 1000 push-ups in 23 mins-seeting a world record.