PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neurofibrillary Tangle, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dementia
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Sexuality: most people believe that at the age of 65, sex becomes improper, unsatisfying, and impossible. Ageism: a type of discrimination against any person, young or old, based on their age, ignores the diversity among people, and instead, employs stereotypes. Issues, concepts, and methods in studying older adults. Diversity: people become less alike as they grow older. This is also known as attrition: selective mortality: the idea that the least able people are expected to drop out of a longitudinal study, leaving a non-representative group of people who are usually healthier than the general population. Logistics of the study: the first phase of data collection lasted from february 1991 and ended in may. Goals: using a common research protocol to estimate prevalence of dementia in. Canadians aged 65 and over: identifying risk factors associated with alzheimer"s disease, examining patterns of caring for patients with dementia, developing a uniform database for subsequent longitudinal investigations.
