PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Anemia, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Neurofibrillary Tangle

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Del Rio

Document Summary

Myths of the elderly: will be unhappy; cope poorly with troubles; focus on poor health and will be lonely. Myths debunked:experience more positive emotion than young people (age 18-30), no stressors. Normally older people shift their social circle to smaller groups family and close friends, not so devastating. Social stress of stigmatizing attitudes toward the elderly: ageism. Cumulative effects of a lifetime of unfortunate experiences. Problems with medical treatment of the elderly. Chronic health condition of elderly seldom diminish. Polypharmacy: might forget if have taken the medicine. Slower metabolism harder to kick the meds out of the system. Most psychoactive drugs are tested on younger people. Research methods in the study of aging. Age effects: the effects of being a certain age; e. g. , being old enough to receive. Cohort effects: the effects of having grown up during a particular time period; e. g. , frugality may be increased among those who lived through the great.