Psychology Week 7: whowell

This week's readings were about late adulthood, dying, and spirituality. In Chapter 11, we talked about late adulthood and we were asked to identify key aspects of physical delevopment among the elderly. There is a variety of physiological theories regarding elderly and death. One of the theories included that stuck out to me was homeostatic imbalance. This is a concept that there isn't much of a difference between a young person and an old person in reference to systems. However we see older body simply aren't as effective as reacting to stressors in the process fails.  Training, nutrition, illness stress level, and personality type also affect one's rate of aging. This stuck out to me because I definitely want to pay attention to all of these things, so that I personally age well. Hormone production slows down during late adulthood, and in one of the most debilitating conditions of the elderly is Alzheimer's disease. One of the other big things that stuck out to me is there's a strong relationship that exist between physical and mental health.

 In chapter 12 we cover dying and spirituality, we were asked to explain the role of death. In today's day there are four types of death. Clinical death, which is  actually the least useful to medical profession, it just means the breathing and heartbeat have stopped.  There is brain-dead, which the brain fails to receive enough oxygen for certain period of time, any where from 8 to 10 minutes and essentially the person enters in irreversible, they are unconscious, however the body still functions.  Biologically dead refers to when there's not an electric charge of the tissue of heart or lungs. It is irreversible and permanent and ends all life functions. And then there is social death which  that a person is treated as dead although biologically alive, this one is a little confusing to me still.  The importance of death or role of death is that in Western society's death comes mostly to the old so we can look to it  as an end date work a day that you wish to accomplish certain things by. Most people avoid or would like to avoid death and look back at all the things they've accomplished up until that point. You're also asked in this chapter to explain the purpose of grief work. Grief Is described as an emotional response the last person including anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness.  Grief is something that is widely known in every culture of those things can be seen differently in each culture things such as love lost sadness crying or wearing black or something that can be widely excepted as grief. The chapter talks about unresolved grief in some cases  delayed grief was just steaming unrelated incident may bring to the surface and asked tense grieving that the individual does not want to recognize his grief. Something that sticks out to me is the show hoarders, where someone on the show continues to collect random things things that other people have no meaning.  Although when is broken down and analyze deeper the cause of this could be answered by a recent death of a loved one not dealt with properly. Another example of unresolved grief is distorted grief we are normal grief symptoms are carried to the extreme level.  Complicated grief is the grieving process which is prolonging intensified it can last a long time and is not categorized by a specific length of time some people can suffer from impaired physical or mental health caused by complicated grief. A quote that suck up to me in the book was that the mortality rate among screaming person to seven Times higher than those matched and are not grieving. Although the chapter does not specifically explain the purpose of grieving work, I would make a estimate that grief counseling and worker devoted to grief work, save lives. They can help those suffering great loss, avoid physical symptoms or depression. With those who are seven times more likely to die, they can reduce that risk as well.