- Cite examples of how older adults can compensate for age-related physical declines.
- Cite evidence that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular dementia.
- Describe cognitive functions that are maintained or improve in late adulthood. What aspects of aging contribute to them?
- Cite features of neighborhoods and residential communities that enhance elders’ life satisfaction.
- Why is adjustment to late-life divorce usually more difficult for women and adjustment to widowhood more difficult for men?
- What psychological and workplace factors predict favorable adjustment to retirement?
- Explain why older adults think and talk more about death than do younger people but feel less anxious about
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