PSY 232 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Amyloid Beta, Presbyopia, Presbycusis
20 Mar 2018
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Name, explain and give an example of the types of adl mentioned in your text. Difficulty in performing everyday tasks that are requiring for everyday living. Be careful in speed-oriented situations search out exercise programs focused on improving balance and gait. Install low-pile carpeting to prevent tripping, grab bars, and other assistive devices at home. Rising from a chair, eating and getting to toilet. Define "socioeconomic status" and explain how it affects the elderly or anyone for that matter. Health impairing forces like growing up poor- from diet, to illness, to life stress. Socioeconomic class might shorten lives, smoking stress-inducing impacting of insecure jobs or living in a crime-ridden neighborhood. Poverty is a possession recipe for poor health. What is the fetal programming hypothesis and why is it important to aging and old age. Low birth weight- linked to poverty, is associated with premature heart disease and earlier death.
