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Adult Day Care
A day care center that provides health and social service to the older person.
Ageism
Deep & profound prejudice in American Society against older adults.
Assisted Living
Facility with various degrees of personal care assistance designed to meet the needs of an older person.
Continuity Theory
People maintain their values, habits, and behavior in old age.
Dementia
A global impairment of cognitive function that usually is progressive and may be permanent; interferes with normal social & occupational activities.
Disengagement Theory
Aging involves mutual withdrawl (disengagement) between the older person and others in the elderly person's environment.
Geriatrics
Medical care of the elderly
Gerontology
The study of aging & older adults
Long-term Memory
The repository for information stored for periods longer that 72 hours & usually weeks & years.
Perception
The ability to interpret the environment through the senses,
Recent Memory
Deals with activities of the recent past of minutes to a few hours.
Sensory Memory
Momentary perception of stimuli by the senses.
Short-term Memory
Information held in the brain for immediate use or what one has in mind at a given moment.