Late Adulthood
| Late adulthood | Course project part 2 |
Autum Caron
6/16/2012
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In this paper we will be talking about my grandmother, she was born in 1944. She is a wonderful caring woman. She got married at 20 years old and had two children and was a stay at home mom her whole life and when her children had babies she helped and became a full time grandmother. She has lived a very simple happy life and she is a great person. I will be writing about my interview with her on late adult hood and her feelings on getting older.
First I began the interview by asking if she had any major health issues and if she had any observable changes in weight, strength, and physical functioning. She explained that as she gets older she definitely notices her strength gets less and less. She has many common conditions that come with age and she says it gets worse with age. She has diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disease. Her carpel tunnel and arthritis have gotten worse also but she said that her weight has relatively stayed the same with normal fluctuations.
We discussed about changes in sleep patterns. When she was younger she used to sleep a lot less and be fine. She said she would run on 6-7 hours of sleep. As she has gotten older she says she sleep a lot more and is tired more often she needs 9-10 hours of sleep now. Changes in memory are shown. She explained that most of the knowledge of your life and what you want to know is recorded and used up memory once you reach about 65 she says her basic memory of everyday has changed, “I can go into a room to get my coffee and then when I’m in the room forget what I went in the room for until I leave the room again and realize I don’t have my coffee.” Her strong point in memory has always been remembering voices and sounds such as; knowing characters of movies by their voices and recognize certain sounds or noises. Since her hearing has been fading over time she said that has weakened too.
She hasn’t had any
Autum Caron
6/16/2012
|
In this paper we will be talking about my grandmother, she was born in 1944. She is a wonderful caring woman. She got married at 20 years old and had two children and was a stay at home mom her whole life and when her children had babies she helped and became a full time grandmother. She has lived a very simple happy life and she is a great person. I will be writing about my interview with her on late adult hood and her feelings on getting older.
First I began the interview by asking if she had any major health issues and if she had any observable changes in weight, strength, and physical functioning. She explained that as she gets older she definitely notices her strength gets less and less. She has many common conditions that come with age and she says it gets worse with age. She has diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disease. Her carpel tunnel and arthritis have gotten worse also but she said that her weight has relatively stayed the same with normal fluctuations.
We discussed about changes in sleep patterns. When she was younger she used to sleep a lot less and be fine. She said she would run on 6-7 hours of sleep. As she has gotten older she says she sleep a lot more and is tired more often she needs 9-10 hours of sleep now. Changes in memory are shown. She explained that most of the knowledge of your life and what you want to know is recorded and used up memory once you reach about 65 she says her basic memory of everyday has changed, “I can go into a room to get my coffee and then when I’m in the room forget what I went in the room for until I leave the room again and realize I don’t have my coffee.” Her strong point in memory has always been remembering voices and sounds such as; knowing characters of movies by their voices and recognize certain sounds or noises. Since her hearing has been fading over time she said that has weakened too.
She hasn’t had any
References: Dona J. Kenney (grandmother) Robert Kail- John Cavanaugh; Human Development, a life-span view, fifth edition