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Goals centering around emotionally meaningful activities become more important than goals related to information and knowledge acquisition

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Goals centering around emotionally meaningful activities become more important than goals related to information and knowledge acquisition

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OA tends to remember emotional based and shorter information better

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OA prefer to look at info positively

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SST helps them to disengage from negative experience quickly

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OAs are more emotionally positive compared to younger people

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OAs are more emotionally positive compared to younger people

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The main assertion of socioemotional selectivity theory is that when boundaries on time are perceived, present-oriented goals related to emotional meaning are prioritized over future-oriented goals aimed at acquiring information and expanding horizons.

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Limited time usually motivates them to switch from long term goals to short term goals 

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Limited time usually motivates them to switch from long term goals to short term goals 

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Many factors also affect SST like culture, gender and many more!

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Older patients are less likely to encode new medical information when it contradicts prior beliefs.

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Even if one’s future is short, it may not be beneficial to focus exclusively on present-oriented goals and disregard future-oriented goals altogether.

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Older people attend to and remember positive information better than negative information

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OA focus more on emotionally meaningful activities and focus less of knowledge acquisition

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OA focus more on emotionally meaningful activities and focus less of knowledge acquisition

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Is SST different for older adults compared to younger adults? 

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Is SST different for older adults compared to younger adults? 

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In what scenarios are they different?

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How SST Affects people in different cultures

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How can SST be compared between younger and older people

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How can SST be compared between younger and older people

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Older people attend to and remember positive in- formation better than negative information

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Can SST be a bad thing?
Ans: I think you have the answer from the reading.

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Although older adults had less frequent contact with members of their social network, they were more likely to be satisfied with the current size of their networks, even if it is smaller

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Oa prioritize emotionally meaningful goals

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- smaller network size, but greater emotional closeness were associated with greater social satisfaction, more frequent exchanges of tenderness, and less loneliness
- People experience
less social strain and more social satisfaction if their social goals are
consistent with their social networks

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When we interact with older adults, we can integrate this model in the way we manage them like helping them achieve what they want and giving them what they feel is meaningful in their final moments.

For example: Nurse give smokes to Hospice care elderly

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Time in life is limited, younger and older people alike pay more attention to the emotional aspects

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As their time left is limited, they prefer smaller social circles and spending time with people that they are close with 

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As their time left is limited, they prefer smaller social circles and spending time with people that they are close with 

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age-related reduction in information seeking is consistent with goal shifts proposed by SST. seeking less information may lead to negative outcomes for older adult's health & interventions to promote information seeking in late life is needed

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Socioemotional Selectivity in Health-Related Decision-Making : Decision avoidance 

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Socioemotional Selectivity in Health-Related Decision-Making : Decision avoidance 

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decision avoidance in response to emotionally challenging choices increases with age, and this could lead to problematic outcomes.

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If we want to give older adults incentives or gifts do not focus on material goods but give them something that they can emotionally relate to

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If we want to give older adults incentives or gifts do not focus on material goods but give them something that they can emotionally relate to

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We can witness how the seniors engage in more downward social comparisons unlike younger people .

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future-oriented goals increase the acquisition of health-related information, motivate

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exercise regimes and a healthy diet, and encourage preventive meas- ures such as inoculations or screening tests.

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While older adults’ greater reliance on prior experience is consistent with the predictions of SST, alternative explanations have been suggested. For example, the age-related emphasis on prior experience could be a compensation for reduced analytical skil

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When a younger person is in a difficult situation can seek help from an OA as they have more control over their emotions.

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- Older adults and young adults are same in saying that they would rather spend time with social networks who are emotionally close when time perspective is constrained

- However, younger adults are indifferent to who they spend their time with when their time perspective is expanded

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Really it is about giving them whatever they want to the best of our abilities because it is their final days

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when we planned programs for oa focus on activities that allow them to reminisce the past such as playing their childhood games

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SST predicts an age-related emphasis on emotionally relevant material and a reallocation of processing resources away from negative information or moods toward the positive aspects of situations

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Aside from cognitive decline, does physical decline also apply for SST

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Aside from cognitive decline, does physical decline also apply for SST

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Can SST still be applied to older adults who always think they still very young?

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Can SST still be applied to older adults who always think they still very young?

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What are some limitations of SST?

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Decision avoidance in response to emotionally challenging choices increases with age, and this could lead to problematic outcomes (Especially health related) --> sometimes allow relatives to decide for them