Emerging Adulthood, Adult Development, and Aging

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CHAPTER 11

• Emerging Adulthood, Adult Development, and Aging

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What is development?

• The pattern of change in human capabilities
  throughout the life span.
• Periods of adult development
• Earlylate teens or early 20s through 30s
• Middle40 through 60
• Late60s till death
• All age periods have plusses and minuses no age
  group is happier than the others.

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The Emerging Adult (18-25 years)

• Factors that serve as markers for adulthood
• Self-responsibility
• Marriage
• Holding a full-time job following high school
  (financial independence)
• Well-being and the emerging adult--
  (intellectual, psychological, social aspects)

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Physical Changes During Adulthood

• Early adulthood
• most young adults are healthy at their physical
  peak in 20s
• Middle adulthood
• Decline in physical fitness
• Become increasingly concerned about heart
  disease, cancer, and weight gain
• Late adulthood
• Wrinkles, gray hair, age spot, decreased
  cognitive and physical abilities

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Concepts in Human Development

• Life span
• Life expectancy
• Factors related to longevity (diet, low stress,
  care, activity, spirituality)

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Aging

• Hormonal stress theory
• Dementia
• Alzheimer disease
• The brain and agingthe more its used, the
  better it works
• Brain cells
• Task shifting
• Nun study (folic acid teaching vs. service-based
  tasks)

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Cognitive Changes Throughout Adulthood

• Early adult
• Formal operational stage
• Postformal operations stage
• Middle adulthood
• Crystallized vs. fluid intelligence
• Late adulthood
• Wisdom increases, cognitive functioning decreases

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Socioemotional Development in Adulthood

• Eriksons theory of development
• Socioemotional changes during adulthood
• Early adulthood
• Intimacy vs. isolation
• Middle adulthood
• Generativity vs. stagnation
• Midlife crisis
• Late adulthood
• Integrity vs. despair
• Adjustment strategies for successful aging

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Death and Dying

• Kubler Ross five stages of death and dying
• Denial and isolation
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• acceptance

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Death and Dying (cont.)

• Communicating with a dying person
• Grief
• Dimensions of grief
• Death and cultural views