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Stage that women experience between the ages 45 and 50?

climacteric
The biological event in which a womans production of sex hormones is reduced sharply?

Menopause
the desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations?

generativity
a discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past

Stagnation
idea that progressive physical and mental decline are inevitable with age

decremental model of aging
prejudice or discrimination against the elderly

ageism
decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people in old age

senile dementia
a condition that destroys a persons ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care for herself or himself

Alzheimer's Disease
the study of dying and death

thanatology
facility designed to care for the special needs of the dying

hospice
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of death are?

denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance