Greater empathic accuracy and emotional reactivity in old age: The sample case of death and dying.

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1202-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Katzorreck ◽  
Ute Kunzmann
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Empathic Accuracy ◽  
Sample Case

scholarly journals Integrating Study Designs on Emotional Reactivity and Regulation in Old Age: New Evidence From the EMIL Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 330-331
Author(s):  
Oliver Schilling ◽  
Gloria Luong
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Cognitive Aging ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Empathic Accuracy ◽  
Study Designs

Abstract Key insights into emotional reactivity and regulation have been gained by studying how these dynamics evolve as older people are confronted with controlled stressors in the lab, go about their everyday routines, or develop across adulthood and old age. Yet, we are only beginning to understand how the dynamics on the different time scales observed in these study designs interact . Aiming for a comprehensive picture of the predictors, correlates, and consequences of emotional reactivity and regulation, the EMIL study integrates a lab-based study with ambulatory in-vivo assessments and a classic long-term longitudinal study. 130 young-old (65-69 years) and 59 very-old adults (83-89 years) from the ILSE study, contributing four waves of health, cognitive, and psycho-social data over almost 25 years, were tested in the lab and assessed six times a day over seven consecutive days. We provide an overview of and first across-design results from EMIL: Katzorreck et al. examined whether the frequency of exposure to daily stressors affects emotion regulation capacity as tested in the lab. Lücke et al. analyzed daily working memory performance, sleep, and its association with long-term change in cognitive functioning. Wieck et al. present differential effects of discrete negative emotions as induced in the lab and reported in daily life on social cognitive performance as indicated by empathic accuracy. Gerstorf et al. examined how long-term cognitive aging affects positive feelings and stressor reactivity in daily life. Gloria Luong will discuss the presentations, considering challenges and opportunities of integrating lab-based, ambulatory, and longitudinal study designs.

Death and Dying

2018 ◽  
pp. 203-226
Author(s):  
Philip A. Mackowiak
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
History Of

Chapter 9 (“Death and Dying”) concerns a number of issues related to the end of life: the age-old question of what happens to one after death, the litany of problems encountered in old age, the mixed benefits of defying death, and the long history of assisted dying. These weighty issues and others are addressed in a series of compelling works that celebrate dying in the presence of friends and family, both glorify and demonize death in battle, and question the value of ICU care that suspends patients in a web of tubes and wires simply to create a kind of purgatory between life and death.

scholarly journals Fear of Crime in Old Age: A Sample Case of Resilience?

2017 ◽  
pp. gbw169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Greve ◽  
Bernhard Leipold ◽  
Cathleen Kappes
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Sample Case

‘Just live for today’. Living, caring, ageing and dying

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLENNYS HOWARTH
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Attitudes To Death

There is an assumption in western societies that death in old age is not only ‘natural’ but also ‘easy’. It is often characterised as death which occurs at the end of life with goals complete. By contrast death in youth is a traumatic and untimely end. This paper draws on interviews with people over the age of 75 to explore the nature of attitudes to death in old age. It focuses on the issues raised by elderly people themselves when given the opportunity to talk about death and dying. In so doing, attitudes to death and dying are separated into ‘death of self’ and ‘death of other’. Each of these categories is then divided thematically according to the issues raised by respondents.

scholarly journals Empathic Accuracy: Helpful to Avoid Negative Affect in Old Age?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 627-628
Author(s):  
Cornelia Wieck ◽  
Martin Katzorreck ◽  
Denis Gerstorf ◽  
Oliver Schilling ◽  
Anna Jori Lücke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Empathic Accuracy ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
Cardiovascular Stress ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Very Old Age ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Young Old

Abstract Past work suggests age-related declines in empathic accuracy and that these declines may put older people at risk for heightened stress reactivity and low affective well-being. We addressed these questions using data from the fourth wave of the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Aging (ILSE). To assess empathic accuracy, the young-old (N=115, Mage=63.4, SDage=1.13) and old-old (N=31, Mage=82.3, SDage=.87) participants of ILSE watched six film clips of individuals, who thought-aloud about an emotional autobiographical event, and were asked to rate each individual’s emotions. Subsequently, participants watched a film about Alzheimer’s disease and their subjective and cardiovascular stress reactions were assessed. Empathic accuracy was lower in old-old, as compared with young-old, individuals. Furthermore, empathic accuracy was only associated with low levels of stress reactivity among young-old but not old-old individuals. This suggests that empathic accuracy is not only compromised in very old age, but also appears to be of lower adaptive utility.

Emerging Nutrition Gaps in a World of Affluence - Micronutrient Intake and Status Globally

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Eggersdorfer ◽  
Paul Walter
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Micronutrient Deficiencies ◽  
New Science ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Micronutrient Intake

Nutrition is important for human health in all stages of life - from conception to old age. Today we know much more about the molecular basis of nutrition. Most importantly, we have learnt that micronutrients, among other factors, interact with genes, and new science is increasingly providing more tools to clarify this interrelation between health and nutrition. Sufficient intake of vitamins is essential to achieve maximum health benefit. It is well established that in developing countries, millions of people still suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. However, it is far less recognized that we face micronutrient insufficiencies also in developed countries.

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