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In the preventative model, older adults’ adaptation depends on both their perceptions of the environment and their attempts to cope.

According to Willis’ model of everyday competence, one’s health and the availability of health insurance would be considered

What happens to people’s first impressions as a function of age?

Will and Carla, a married couple in their mid-fifties, are working with Will’s elderly father to explore the options for nursing home care. As a county social worker, you are advising them on new directions for nursing homes. Describe three new directions/perspectives in nursing home care that are revolutionizing perceptions of nursing home design, purpose, and residents’ quality of life.

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior involves teaching persons with Alzheimer’s disease to remember new information by gradually increasing the time between retrieval attempts.

According to Piaget’s theory, placing thoughts into a coordinated whole is called

Ethnic differences in women’s rates of depression have been found in Korea.

Whitbourne’s findings indicated that adult identity development is based on equilibrium between

In Kahana’s model, an example of a preventive adaptation would be

In terms of the main pathway in Verbrugge and Jette’s (1994) model, ______________ occurs between pathology and impairments.