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Part 1 Key Terms
Part 1 Key Terms - Working with Older Adults
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active listening | Requires listeners to be silent while another is talking so that they can process the entire message—both verbal and nonverbal—paying attention not only to the words, but to the tone of voice, underlying messages, and body language. |
| Age adaptation | Approaching age with acceptance. |
| Age affirmation | Positive emphasis on aging; directly linked to chronological age. Potentially a key motivator to plan for the future. |
| Age denial | Refusal to identify oneself as old; perpetuated by society's prejudice toward aging and remaining young. |
| Age irrelevance | Approaching life's options and decisions from an "ageless" point of view instead of chronological age. |
| Ageism | Prejudice or discrimination based on a person's age. |
| Age Tech | Technology meeting the needs of older adults and those who care for them, designed with the input of older adults and other stakeholders. |
| Beanpole family | A family structure in which the configuration is more "vertical," meaning there are more generations alive at one time but with fewer individuals in each generation. |
| Blended family | Two parents living together with children whom one or both partners bring to the family from previous marriages or relationships; may also include children from their union. |
| Chronological age | Categorization of age measured by the counting of time that one has existed or the number of birthdays one has had. |
| Cohort | A defined group of people with a statistic in common (e.g., being born in the same year). |
| Contexts of communication | The various circumstances that can affect the effectiveness of communication. These may encompass environmental, relational, psychological, situational, and cultural factors, only some of which can be controlled. |
| Cultural competence | Understanding and acknowledgment of and respect for clients' unique heritages, which enables professionals to care for and support clients in ways that are consistent with their values, beliefs, and preferences. |
| Cultural norms | Informal understandings that govern behavior in a culture. |
| Despair | A sense of meaninglessness about one's life (Erik Erikson). |
| Elder abuse | Intentional actions that cause harm or create a serious risk of harm to an older adult. |
| Elder speak | Infantilizing communication characterized by simplistic vocabulary and grammar, shortened sentences, slowed speech, elevated pitch and volume, and inappropriate terms of endearment. |
| Encore career | A second or third career that combines personal meaning with social impact and continued income. |
| Ethical will | The systematic writing down or communicating of one's intangible legacy of values to children and family members. |
| Functional age | Categorization of age based on what a person is capable of doing and how the person looks. |
| Generation | The entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time or a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age, having similar ideas, problems, attitudes, etc. |
| Geriatrics | The medical study of aging. |
| Gerontology | The study of the human aging process, including the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging. |
| Gero transcendence | Human development is a lifelong process that continues into old age and when optimized ends in a new perspective. The older person shifts to increased life satisfaction. |
| Grand family | A grandparent or kin member (e.g., cousin, aunt, uncle, sibling) raising children because the middle generation (the children’s parents) is absent or unable to parent. |
| Health literacy | The degree to which someone is able to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services in order to make appropriate health decisions. |
| Heritage | The traditions, beliefs, achievements, and so on that are part of a group or nation. Encompasses ethnicity, ancestry, religion, and culture. |
| Identity foreclosure | Changing relationships and circumstances that strip people of their identity and force them to see themselves differently. (A person who does not feel like themselves) |
| Generativity | The concern of others that develops during middle age with a specific need to nurture and guide younger people and contribute to future generations (Erik Erikson). |
| Integrity | The ability to interpret one’s life as having been meaningful and purposeful (Erik Erikson). |
| Later adulthood | A stage in life that generally begins sometime in one’s 60s (chronological age). |
| Leisure time | Free time during which obligatory activities are not performed. |
| Life review | A developmental task of old age during which one looks back over and reassesses one’s life in view of one’s approaching mortality. |
| Life stages | Another way of describing life’s transitions, each with defined social roles and physical changes These roles are loosely linked to chronological age but are much more focused on social roles. |
| Middle age | A stage in life that traditionally has been thought to last chronologically from about age 40 to age 65. |
| Multigenerational household | At least two generations of adults and one generation under age 25 living together (according to Pew’s definition; the Census Bureau has another). |
| Obesity | Body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more. |
| Old age | According to the World Health Organization, age 65 is commonly seen as the start of old age in developed countries. But many 65yr olds don’t consider themselves old. The boundary between later adulthood and old age is vague & largely based on age/function |
| Positive ageism | Language or images couched in positive terms that have ageist connotations. |
| Psychosocial stages of development | A term that refers to the interrelationship between a person’s psychological development (thinking and behavior) and social environment. First commonly used by psychologist Erik Erikson in his theory of the stages of social development. |
| Pyramid family | A family structure in which the configuration is more “horizontal,” meaning fewer generations are alive at one time but each generation has more individuals. |
| Social gerontology | A subfield of gerontology, focusing on the social lives of older adults. |
| Social media | A way to share information with a broad audience and engage with other people online. Includes sites such as Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and online news sites. |
| Social roles | Sets of expectations or guidelines for people who occupy given positions. |
| Stagnation | The failure to continue to develop (Erik Erikson). |
| Subjective age | Categorization of age based on one’s subjective feeling and how one defines their own age. |
| Telemedicine | The remote diagnosis and treatment of patients through electronic communications to improve patients’ health status. |
| Validation | Affirming the thoughts and feelings of people with dementia, rather than correcting or arguing with the person. |
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