• Personality Development
      • From Adolescence to Middle adulthood
      • From middle adulthood to old age
      • In old age
  • Age Grade
  • Age Norm
  • Age Defiance (Hollywood's aspect of old age)
  • Lifespan View
      • Young-Old (60-74)
      • Old-Old (75-85)
      • Oldest-Old (85-100)
      • Centarians (100+)
  • Developmental Task: Integrity vs. Despair
  • Biological Declines
      • Aging Brain
      • Aging Body
      • Sensory Acuity
      • Cardiovascular and Pulmonary system
      • Immune system
  • Capacity vs. Functioning
  • Successful Aging Theories
      • Activity Theory
      • Socio-Emotional Selectivity
      • Selective Optimization with Compensation
            • External Aids
            • Shifting Priorities
      • Developmental Self-Regulation Theory
            • Strength: Primary Control
            • Serenity: Accommodation
            • Wisdom to know the difference
  • Declines in memory
      • Episodic memory - more decline
      • Semantic memory - less decline
      • Working memory - declines
      • Speed of Processing - declines
      • Explicit, but not implicit memory - declines
      • Declines in Tasks
  • Maintaining Memory
      • Overcome stereotypes
      • Use it or lose it
  • Pathological Declines in Cognition
      • Symptoms
      • Acute vs. Chronic
      • Treatment
      • Terminal drop (decline)
  • Cognitive Growth
      • Post-Formal Operations
      • Integral Post-Formal Operations
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual Development
  • Gero-transcendence
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