Navigating Adulthood and Aging: Understanding Life Transitions and Challenges

1. Adulthood and Old Age

2. “Empty Nest Syndrome” • When a significant person in an older person’s life leaves many will rejoice and find a chance to reorganize their lives. This mostly affects females.Sending you to college is fun for your parents.

3. “The Change” • Menopause: the natural ending of a woman’s ability to reproduce led by a lack of estrogen. The following video is how to survive your mother’s menopause.

4. Marriage and Divorce • 90% of adults in the United States will get married. • 40 to 60% will end in divorce. • What makes it last? • 1. how couples handle conflicts • 2. how often couples share intimate and happy moments. forum.xbitlabs.com

5. Generativity • The desire to pass on one’s knowledge to future generations.How could Robin exist without Batman?

6. Stagnation • A discontinuation of development and a desire to recapture the past.Remember Pogs?

7. Life Expantancy Women tend to live longer by 4 years. Avg. age is 75.

8. Senile Demetia • Senile Dementia- is a collective term that describes conditions characterized by memory loss, forgetfulness, disorientation of time and place, a decline in the ability to think, impaired attention, altered personality, and difficulties in relating to others. • One of the most common forms of Senile Dementia is Alzheimer's.

9. Alzheimer’s Disease • A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, language and physical functioning. • Runs its course in 5 to 20 years. • Deterioration of neurons that produce the neurotransmitter…. • Charlie, Gabby, Josh F. this is for you: • http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alzheimers Acetylcholine Estrogen supplements may stop the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Taken from appsychology.com

10. Old People jokesmantra.com

11. Attitudes Toward Aging • Decremental model of aging –which holds that progressive physical and mental decline is inevitable with age. • Ageism – prejudice against the old. • One misconception is that older people are in inflexible or senile. • Young people believe the aged withdraw from life and sit around doing nothing…

12. Do old people get stupid? • Cross-sectional studies show decline. • Longitudinal Studies show consistency. What is the difference? Cross-sectional studies: study with people of different ages studied at the same time. Longitudinal Studies: same people studied and retested over a period of time. Taken from appsychology.com

13. But there are different types of intelligence. • Crystallized intelligence: one’s accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age. Fluid Intelligence:one’s ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.

14. There are 1 million old people who can no longer take care for themselves, are in institutions • 15% of males and 25% of females are in nursing homes KaitlynBoyett

15. Dying and Death • Elizabeth Kubler Ross studied Thantology. Thantologyis the study of death and dying. She came up with the 5 Stages of Death. This is 5 stages someone might go through when confronted with death. • 1. denial • 2. anger • 3. bargaining • 4. depression • 5. acceptance

16. Hospice • Hospice is a special place where the terminally ill people go to die. The hospice is designed to look less like a hospital. Dr.’s do not prolong life. There is also hospice that goes out and services people in their home.

17. Letter to your Grandchild • Erikson talks about as you get older you go through the final Psychosocial Stage: Generativity vs. Stagnation: The desire to pass on one’s knowledge to future generations. • Your job now is to pretend you are age 91 and you are writing a letter to a grandchild and you are telling them what you learned in life. Go..