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Stage that women experience between the ages 45 and 50?
climacteric
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The biological event in which a womans production of sex hormones is reduced sharply?
Menopause
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the desire, in middle age, to use one's accumulated wisdom to guide future generations?
generativity
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a discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past
Stagnation
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idea that progressive physical and mental decline are inevitable with age
decremental model of aging
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prejudice or discrimination against the elderly
ageism
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decreases in mental abilities experienced by some people in old age
senile dementia
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a condition that destroys a persons ability to think, remember, relate to others, and care for herself or himself
Alzheimer's Disease
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the study of dying and death
thanatology
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facility designed to care for the special needs of the dying
hospice
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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of death are?
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
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