Key Terms

Match each of the terms on the left with its definition on the right. Click on the term first and then click on the matching definition. As you match them correctly they will move to the bottom of the activity.

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activities of daily life (ADLs)
activity theory
age in place
compulsive hoarding
disengagement theory
filial responsibility
frail elderly
instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs)
integrity versus despair
naturally occurring retirement community (NORC)
positivity effect
self theories
socioemotional selectivity theory
stratification theories
People over age 65, and often over age 85, who are physically infirm, very ill, or cognitively disabled.
The urge to accumulate and hold on to familiar objects and possessions, sometimes to the point of their becoming health and/or safety hazards. This impulse tends to increase with age.
The obligation of adult children to care for their aging parents.
The view that elderly people want and need to remain active in a variety of social spheres—with relatives, friends, and community groups—and become withdrawn only unwillingly, as a result of ageism.
The final stage of Erik Erikson’s developmental sequence, in which older adults seek to integrate their unique experiences with their vision of community.
A neighborhood or apartment complex whose population is mostly retired people who moved to the location as younger adults and never left.
The theory that older people prioritize regulation of their own emotions and seek familiar social contacts who reinforce generativity, pride, and joy.
Theories that emphasize that social forces, particularly those related to a person’s social stratum or social category, limit individual choices and affect a person’s ability to function in late adulthood because past stratification continues to limit life in various ways.
Actions (for example, paying bills and driving a car) that are important to independent living and that require some intellectual competence and forethought. The ability to perform these tasks may be even more critical to self-sufficiency than ADL ability.
The tendency for elderly people to perceive, prefer, and remember positive images and experiences more than negative ones.
Typically identified as five tasks of self-care that are important to independent living: eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, and transferring from a bed to a chair. The inability to perform any of these tasks is a sign of frailty.
To remain in the same home and community in later life, adjusting but not leaving when health fades.
The view that aging makes a person’s social sphere increasingly narrow, resulting in role relinquishment, withdrawal, and passivity.
Theories of late adulthood that emphasize the core self, or the search to maintain one’s integrity and identity.
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