Late Adulthood Resources

Sketchnote Late Adulthood

Watch the video https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/20140523_f3e_058_late_adulthood and respond to the following questions in your notebook.

• What time frame in the lifespan is considered late adulthood?
• What are the three subcategories of late adulthood?  What are the differences?
• What are ADLs?
• What is a gerontologist?
• Compare functional age and chronological age.
• Compare primary aging and secondary aging.
• What is sleep apnea?
• What is selective attention?  How is it impacted in late adulthood?
• What is divided attention?  How is it impacted in late adulthood?
• What is sustained attention? How is it impacted in late adulthood?
• What is dementia?  What are the symptoms of dementia?  What is the most common type of dementia?
• What is Erikson’s description of this time in the lifespan?
• What is elder abuse?
• What is socio-emotional selectivity?
• How is marital satisfaction described in this time in the lifespan?
• Describe sexual activity in late adulthood.
• What are the fears of those who dread retirement?
• Describe the five stages of the retirement process.

How to Live to 100+

Watch the video below.  Respond to the questions in your notebook.

• What percentage is of our longevity is related to our genes?  What percentage is related to our lifestyle?
• What is longevity myth #1? 
• What is longevity?
• What is procreative success?
• What is longevity myth #2?
• What are “blue zones”?  Where are the “blue zones” (there are four)?
• What is the “grandmother effect”?
• Describe the benefits of the Sardinian lifestyle.
• Describe the benefits of the lifestyle in Okinowa.
• Where is America’s “blue zone”?  What are the habits of individuals who live in America’s “blue zone”?  Who are the members of their community?
• What are the nine common denominators in these three “blue zone” communities?
• What are the two most vulnerable years of one’s life?

Life Expectancy Calculator

Use the website below to determine your life expectancy.

https://www.blueprintincome.com/tools/life-expectancy-calculator-how-long-will-i-live/

What is your life expectancy according to your current habits?  How does that make you feel?

Life Expectancy Continued

CALCULATING YOUR LONGEVITY

Respond to each item honestly, and sum the various positive and negative factors to arrive at the appropriate number of years more (or less) than average you are likely to live.

 START WITH YOUR BEGINNING LIFE EXPECTANCY (from the Life Expectancy Table provided by your instructor.)          

• For each grandparent who lived past 80, add 1 year.       
• For each grandparent who lived to 70 but not 80, add 1/2 year. 
• If your mother lived past 80, add 4 years.             
• If your father lived past 80, add 2 years.
• For each grandparent, parent, or sibling who died of any type of heart disease before age 50, subtract 4 years.    
• For each such relative dying of heart disease between age 50 and 60, subtract 2 years.   
• For each such relative who died of diabetes or ulcers before age 60, subtract 3 years.      
• Women: For each sister or mother who died of breast cancer before age 60, subtract 1 year.       
• If your intelligence is superior, add 2 years.         

HEALTH HISTORY             

• If your mother was younger than 18 or older than 35 at your birth, subtract 1 year.          
• If you are the first born in your family, add 1 year.            
• Women:  if you have had no children (or plan no children) subtract 1/2 year.       
• If you have an annual physical exam, add 2 years.             

 CURRENT HEALTH

•  If your weight is 10–30 percent above ideal weight shown in standard tables, the amount you must subtract depends on your age and gender. For women, subtract 5 years if you are between 20 and 30; 4 years if you are between 30 and 50, and 2 years if you are over 50. For men, subtract 10 years if you are between 20 and 30, 4 years if you are between 30 and 45, and 2 years for any age over that.   
• If your weight is more than 30 percent above standard tables: Women, subtract 6 1/2 years if you are between 20 and 30, 5 years if you are between 30 and 50, and 4 years thereafter. Men, subtract 13 years if you are between 20 and 30, 6 years if you are between 30 and 40, and 4 years thereafter.             
• If your diet is genuinely low in fat and sugar, and you never eat past the feeling of fullness, add 1 year.    
• If you smoke 2 or more packs a day, subtract 12 years; if you smoke 1–2 packs a day, subtract 7 years; if you smoke less than 1 pack a day, subtract 2 years.
• If you never drink, neither add nor subtract; if you are a heavy drinker, subtract 8 years; if you are a moderate drinker add 3 years, if you are a light drinker, add 1 1/2 years.   
• If you do some aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week, add 3 years.       
• If you sleep more than 10 or less than 6 hours per night, subtract 2 years.             
• If you have intimate sexual relations once a week or twice a week, add 2 years.  
• If you have a chronic health condition (e.g., high blood pressure, diabetes, ulcer, cancer) or are frequently ill, subtract 5 years.

 YOUR CURRENT LIFE

• If your occupation is at a professional, technical, or managerial level, add 1 year; if you work at unskilled work, subtract 4.          
• If your family income is above average for your education and occupation, add 1 year; if it is below average, subtract 1.           
• If your job is a physically active one, add 2; if it is sedentary, subtract 2.  
• If you now live in an urban area and have lived in urban areas most of your life, subtract 1; if you have spent most of your life in a rural area, add 1.   
• If you are married and living with your spouse, add 1.     
• If you are separated or divorced, subtract 9 if you are a man, 4 if you are a woman.          
• If you are widowed, subtract 7 if you are a man, 4 if you are a woman.   
• If you are a never-married woman, subtract 1 year for each decade unmarried past age 25.           
• If you are a never-married man and living with family, subtract 1 year for each decade unmarried past 25; if you live alone, subtract 2 years for each decade unmarried past 25.          
• If you have at least two close friends in whom you can confide, add 1.     
• If your personality is noticeably aggressive and hostile and you feel regularly under time pressure, subtract 2-5 depending on how much the description fits.     
• If you are a calm, relaxed, easygoing person who adapts well to whatever happens, add 1-3 depending on how well the description fits.        
• If you are a basically happy person and have a lot of fun, add 2.  
• If you have had an episode of being depressed or very tense, guilty, or worried that lasted as long as a year or more, subtract 1–3 depending on how severe the depression was.        
• If you take a lot of risks, subtract 2; if you generally avoid risks, add 1.     

Life Expectancy Calculator Results

How much should I Weigh?

Use the linked website to find your weight category https://www.rush.edu/news/how-much-should-i-weigh

Happy Weight Versus Healthy Weight

Read the article at the following link https://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/happy-weight-vs-healthy-weight#2

Implicit Association Test

Go to the link https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html read the instructions and click "I wish to proceed" then click "Age IAT" complete the procedure for the age IAT.

• What is IAT?
• What is ageism?
• What is the contradiction paradigm?
• What is a consistent target sentence?
• What is an inconsistent target sentence?
• What is a neutral target sentence?

Implicit Association Test Results

Ageism

Watch the link at https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/mypsychlab-2016-feldman4e_0134531868-ageism