Late Adulthood

343 CHAPTER 9 late AdulthoodnOUTLINEPHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTDURING late Adulthood Physical development Health issuesCOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTDURING LATEADULTHOOD Beyond Piaget s theory Information-processingduring late adulthoodSOCIAL AND EMOTIONALDEVELOPMENT DURING late Adulthood Emotional development Self and others Psychosocial development When does old age begin?Should this depend on chrono-logical age or a life event such as retirement from work?Although many people maintain that old age is a state ofmind, there are several life events that signal the beginningof late Adulthood . These are tied to chronology, just asother life events are in previous stages of the life sixty-five is considered a milestone and the begin-ning of late Adulthood . Reaching this age generally bringsabout retirement from work, eligibility for Social Securityand Medicare benefits, income tax advantages, reducedfares and admission prices to leisure events, and specialpurchase or discount privileges.

rectly that late adulthood comprises a diverse group of individuals. In this respect, it is like every other stage dis-cussed in this text. The young-old (sixty to sixty-nine years): Society expects people in their sixties to have less energy, responsibility, and independence in adulthood. This expectation demoralizes people and serves as a ...

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