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•types of dementia:
1. alzheimer's disease
2. vascular dementia
3. lewy body dementia
4. frontotemporal dementia
reminiscence bump:
•in many cases solder adults remember more about recent
events than events in the distant past
•is autobiographical memory in which adults remember more
events from the second and third decades of their lives than
from other decades
•much relates to the first time experience of a memory, the
importance of the memory, emotional salience of the memory
defining death:
•permanent cessation of all vital functions; the end of life. the
classic indicators of death include permanent cessation of heart
and lungs. during the 1960s medical tech advances to allow
the artificial maintenance of breathing and heartbeat in cases
where the lungs and heart would otherwise have stopped. this
prompted a re-examination of the concept of death, and in the
late 1970s state legislators began to recognize an alternative
criterion of death. this alternative is brain death.
a developmental perspective on death:
•death is a part of life. it can occur at any point in the lifespan
•during prenatal development: by the way of miscarriage or
abortion (a loss of fetus before 22nd week or before age of
viability); stillbirth (a baby born dead after 28 weeks of
pregnancy). in either case, the psychological experience of loss
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