Chapter5


 * Vocab Words*


 * Menopause**- a womens production of sex hormones drops sharply. The woman stops ovulating and menstrating and therefore cannot concieve children.


 * Generativity**-the desire to use one's wisdom to guide future generations, directly,as a parent, or indirectly.


 * Stagnation**- a discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past. Which is the opposite of Generativity.


 * Decremental** model of aging- holds that progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age. Which means chronological age is what makes people old.


 * Ageism**- prejudice against the old, But rather than feeding facts ageism feeds on myths.


 * Senile Dementia**- a collective term that describes conditions characterized by memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation of time and place, a decline in the ability to think, impaired attention, altered personality, and difficulties in relating to others.


 * Alzheimer's Disease**- an affliction more commonly seem among the elderly. A condition that destroys a person's ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care for herself or himself.


 * Thanatology**- the study of dying and death.


 * Hospic**- usually a special place where terminally ill people go to die.


 * Summary*

For most adults, the process of physical decline is slow and gradual. The adulthood years are a time when lifestyle may set the stage for problems that will show up then or later in life. Good physical and mental health seem to be the key factors affecting sexual activity in adulthood. The ability to comprehend new material and to think flexibly improves in early adulthood, and overall intelligence improves with age.
 * Section 1 Adulthood:**

The idea that progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age has resulted in a climate of prejudice against the old, called agism. The health of older people, for the most part, is related to their health when young. In late adulthood, life transitions are often negative and reduce responsibilities and increase isolation. The frequency and regularity of sexual activities during earlier years is the best overall predictor of such activities in later years. Crystallized intelligence, or the ability to use accumulated knowledge and learning in appropriate situations, increase with age; fluid intelligence, or the ability to solve abstract relational problems and to generate new hypotheses, decrease with age.
 * Section 2 Old Age:**

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified five stages of psychological adjustment to death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. A hospice is a special place where terminally ill people go to die; it is designed to make the patients surroundings pleasant and comfortable.
 * Section 3 Dying and Death:**