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Middle adulthood is a time of....
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significant transitions.
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Developmental period that begins at about 40 years of age and extends to about 60 years of age.
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Middle Adulthood
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What changes during middle adulthood?
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Grown children leave home, career views change, marriages undergo re-evaluation, a period of deepening roots, and health concerns become increasingly important.
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Referred to midlife as the "afternoon of life"; Time serves as an important preparation for late adulthood; Time of reflection, evaluation, and anticipation; Sandwich generation; Expanding responsibility; More conscious young-old polarity and shrinking time; Financial career stability, and community and political prowess.
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Carl Jung
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Take care of older and younger generations.
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"Sandwich" generation
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What are 3 frequent illnesses in middle adulthood?
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Heart disease, cancer, and stroke
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Women strive to make themselves...
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look younger, with surgery, hair dying, and weight reduction, etc.
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Midlife physical changes are usually..
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gradual.
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What is the most visible sign of physical changes?
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Physical appearance
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There are also changes in...
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vision and hearing.
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Term given to age related loss of muscle mass and strength; Literally means a lack or deficiency of the flesh; Testerone related in males.
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Sarcopenia
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What is the rate of muscle loss?
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1-2% per year past the age of 50 (Osteoperosis becomes more likely)
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In women, estrogen reduction leads to a decrease in ________; Lower estrogen levels are especially related to _________.
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absorption; menopause
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What can be used to offset menopause?
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Hormone replacement therapy
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At what rate do women experience bone loss?
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At twice the rate of men
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What can be helpful to offset osteoporosis?
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Endurance training and weight bearing exercises are helpful in both men and women.
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Reproductive capacity.....
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decreases with age.
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What happens when male testosterone production declines?
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Reduced sexual drive and sperm count slowly declines. (Men do not lose their fertility)
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What happens to females when estrogen production declines?
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Decrease in reproductive organs, decrease in skin elasticity and bone mass, and decrease in genital stimulation.
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When do women experience fertility issues? Most fertile?
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Mid 30's and following; Early 20's
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The midlife transition in which fertility declines or reduction in reproductive capacity.
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Climacteric
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Males experience a modest decline in __________ and activity; _____ may shrink very gradually; The amount of _______ and _______ of sperm showed a gradual decrease after age ___; Testosterone production continues _______.
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Sexual hormone level; Testes; semen, concentration, 40; Throughout life.
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Believed that 72% of individuals over 50 are sexually active ; 1 in 3 over age 85 are sexually active.
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Colin Cowherd
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What percentages of men and women masterbate?
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Men--43% over Age 70; Women--33%
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The complete cessation of a woman's menustration, which usually occurs in the lat 40's or early 50's (Average age is 51); End of climacteric; Relates to mental absorption; Produces some uncomfortable symptoms such as "hot flashes", nausea, and rapt heartbeat;
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Menopause
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What can help to control some menopausal effects?
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Anti-depressants
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Probably has less to do with hormonal changes than psychological adjustment to overall decline.
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Male menopause
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Cardiologists who observed patients in their waiting rooms and developed Type A and Type B personalities.
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Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman
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Who was observed? What did Friedman and Rosenman observe in their study?
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Chairs in their waiting room were tattered and worn, but only the front edges; They noticed the impatience of their cardiac patients, who arrive exactly on time for an appointment and were in a great hurry to leave.
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Who did they observe behavioral patterns of?
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3000 healthy men between 35 and 59 over an 8 year period; One group had 2 times as many heart attacks.
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Extensively competitive, hard-driven, impatient, hostile, always on the go--These characteristics thought to be related to the incidence of heart disease.
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Type A behavior pattern
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Relaxed, easygoing, not time conscious, laid-back, calm
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Type B behavior pattern
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A personality style characterized by a sense of commitment, control, and a perception of problems as challenging;
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Hardiness
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Conducted the Chicago Stress Project on male business managers.
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Kobasa
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What are the 3 C's of hardiness?
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Commitment, Control, Challenges
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Who was studied and what study did Kobasa conduct?
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Male business managers 32-65 years old were studied over a 5-year period--Most experienced stressful events such as divorce, job transfers, and death, etc.; Managers who developed an illness were compared with those who did not--Those who did not were more likely to have a hardy personality; When all 3 factors were present in an executive's life, the level of illness dropped dramatically (This suggests the power of multiple buffers of stress)
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An individual's accumulated information and verbal skill; Broadened by experiences, education, cultural events, and association with intelligent spouse; Increases in middle adulthood and builds up in the 70's.
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Crystallized intelligence
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One's ability to reason abstractly; Raw information processing capabilities; Peaks in early to mid 30's and begins to decline in middle adulthood years.
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Fluid intelligence
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