Ashley Hawkins Bryant & Stratton College NURS 125 Lifespan Development & Nursing Late Adulthood 11/29/2012 Physiological Characteristics * U.S. government defines old age as over 65. * Hair has become thinner and grey or white. * Skin is thinner and more fragile. * The individual may have shrunk in height. Cognitive Development * The older adult experiences memory changes‚ particularly in remembering names and faces of people. * Normal memory
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As people approach the end of life‚ changes occur and special challenges arise. Growing older means confronting many psychological‚ emotional‚ and social issues that come with entering the last phase of life. In late adulthood emotions and stability vary widely. Theorist Erik Erikson (1902-1994) devised a framework for development based on psychosocial stages‚ and he defined the last stage of life as a tension between integrity and despair. Individuals either come to accept their lives as having
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Communication is different in middle adulthood due to wanting to be closer to loved ones and have more meaningful relationships with spouse‚ adult children and friends. This happens due to having more time than before as a result of children moving out and not worrying about them as much. Middle adulthood also comes with possible hearing loss‚ which can cause withdrawal and isolation from society (PPT‚ p.8). A "midlife crisis" can occur during the stage of middle adulthood‚
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Stress is most commonly associated with late adolescence and the emerging adult period‚ but stress is also prevalent in middle adulthood and in some cases it can affect a person’s health more so than during adolescence. Stress is a problem most people would commonly associated with adolescence and in early adulthood‚ because those are the groups that are most talked about being stressed in all the popular media. Middle adulthood is defined as being aged between 45-65 by Erik Erikson’s psychosocial
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search for jobs becomes the real deal. Its our step into reality‚ and our first step to actual adulthood. The time were we learn to adjust ourselves to people and the workforce around us. We as humans‚ have many years. The choices we make at a young age have a lot to do with the future‚ that includes the four to five years after high school graduation‚ middle adulthood‚ and our late adulthood. Each one transitions to another‚ not necessarily as perfect as one could be‚ but including many roadblocks and
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Middle Adulthood By: Michelle Kuchera From the time I was a child I can remember listening to the adults around me talking about “getting older.” They described the physical aches and pains as well as the loss of memory and slower reflexes in both fine and large motor skills. I heard women complaining of wrinkles‚ while men lamented about “the good old days‚” when they felt more carefree and lived like there was no tomorrow. Nearly everyone I know who has reached the age of fifty has begun to find
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Witchcraft is feared and resorted to when events are unexplainable. In the Late Middle Ages‚ three main texts arose that laid a foundation for the extermination of witches‚ known as the Witchcraft Documents. This fear instilled in the documents started a flurry of witch hunts and unreasonable trials to eradicate witches and to keep the world pure‚ starting in the medieval Protestant Europe‚ the ever popular Salem witch trials in the late 1600s‚ and until they died down mid-1700s (Scarre & Callow 2001) and
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and healthy men and women function sexually into their eighties and beyond" (Crandell‚ et at.‚ 2009). However‚ health‚ whether physical or psychological can impede overall sexual functioning for middle-age adults. Menopause is a very big issue that is associated with human sexuality in middle adulthood. This of course is a “woman” thing and only women get it‚ but still it can be extreme for many women. There is weight gained‚ rest and sleep is disrupted by night sweats and frequent urination and
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several ways for those in middle adulthood‚ ranging from ages 40 to 65‚ to maintain good health. During this time frame‚ people’s bodies are changing and these changes are reflected both ex and internally. Their bones aren’t holding up too well‚ it’s becoming harder to lose weight and the gray hairs popping up left and right are especially annoying. While particular changes in an individual’s integumentary system (such as loss of hair or wrinkling of skin) during middle adulthood may be irreversible‚
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Early and Middle Adulthood Crystal Hicks October 6‚ 2011 Marcy Caldwell PSY/280 University of Phoenix Adulthood does not have any sign to declare its presence (as adolescence is declared by puberty). In technologically innovative countries‚ the life span is greater than age 70. In early adulthood‚ most individuals are interested in processing the knowledge that it takes to become intimate‚ these individuals are wanting to form relationships and find the intimate love connection that they
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