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 .

to others. Health problems become more frequent, severe, and of longer duration. Some people need to be cared for byothers, which could be within a family member’s home, a nursing home, or some other supervised li ving situation. The very old-old (ninety to ninety-nine years): There are far fewer people in this age bracket, so we have very lit-

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