Your Elderly Patient Recently Lost Her Husband and Has Decided

Multiple Choice

Your elderly patient recently lost her husband and has decided to join an exercise class at the YMCA and volunteer at the senior center so that she does not feel so isolated. Her adaptation to this life change is an example of which concept in Flood's theory of successful aging?

A) functional performance mechanisms
B) intrapsychic factors
C) spirituality
D) gerotranscendence