PSY 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Factor Analysis, Agreeableness, Ageism
28 Mar 2018
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Successful aging: people seem to thrive until very late in life. Pathological aging: people decline very rapidly starting in their mid-60s. Any account of the physical and physiological changes that occur in adulthood must address how these processes change in history. Due to medical advances, lifestyle changes, and new cultural practices. Distinction between successful aging and pathological aging illustrates many ways in which older people thrive longer. Longer than considered feasible even a few decades ago, while others suffer from irreversible debilitating diseases. Pathological aging may also involve diseases that occur more frequently but not inevitability in the elderly. Parkinson"s, alzheimer"s and other forms of dementia rise quite dramatically as people progress into 80s and 90s. People can age at different rates and account of changes in adults must recognize variances that can occur and how they relate. Chronological and biological age are increasingly distinct concepts. Today, middle age is thought to be 40-60 and elderly refers to ages.
