1. The new Young Adults

6. Young Adults Today…
More education is needed to survive in an information-based economy;
Fewer entry-level jobs are available even after significant levels of schooling;
Young people are feeling less rush to marry because of the general acceptance of premarital sex, cohabitation, and birth control;
Young women feeling less rush to have babies given their wide range of career options and their access to reproductive technology if pregnancy is delayed beyond most fertile years.

8. Vocab Terms
Chapter 12 Sections #3 & #4

9. Alzheimer’s disease Form of dementia
It affects memory, thinking, and behavior.
Leads to death.

10. Bereaved
a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved

11. Dementia loss of brain function
It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.

12. Ego integrity
A belief that life is still meaningful even when you get older and you have physical limitations (Erikson)

13. Euthanasia
practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering
Assisted suicide

14. Hospice
nursing home for the care of the dying or the terminally ill

15. Living will
written statement detailing a person's desires regarding their medical treatment
Example: being taken off life-support

16. Senile dementia
Severe mental deterioration in old age, characterized by loss of memory and control of bodily functions