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The Developing Person
Through the Life Span
Eighth Edition
Kathleen Stassen Berger
Part VII Chapter Twenty-Four
Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development
The Aging Brain
The Usual: Information Processing
After Age 65
The Impaired: Diseases That
Affect the Brain
The Optimal: New Cognitive
Development
The Aging Brain
• Brain Slowdown
• Evidence from Neuroscience
– Using More of the Brain
– Multitasking
The Usual: Information
Processing After Age 65
• Input
– Awareness of the Loss
– Interference
• Memory
– Working Memory
– Long-Term Memory
The Usual: Information
Processing After Age 65
• Control Processes
– Retrieval, Not Storage
– Reminding People of What They Know
• Output
– Health and Well-Being
– Training
– Ecological Validity
The Impaired:
Diseases That Affect the Brain
• Dementia and Age
• Alzheimer Disease
– Genes and Alzheimer Disease
– Stages: From Confusion to Death
• Vascular Dementia
• Other Dementias
The Impaired:
Diseases That Affect the Brain
• Prevention and Treatment
• Reversible Impairment
– Mental Illness
– Other Causes
• A CASE TO STUDY: Drug Addiction
in a Grandmother
The Optimal: New Cognitive
Development
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Erikson and Maslow
Aesthetic Sense and Creativity
The Life Review
Wisdom
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