1/12/2013
PSY-357 Lifespan Development
Professor: Hodges, Dave
Late Adulthood As we all get older we wonder what is going to happen to us. What does our body go through and why? Do you ever wonder why things happen when you get older instead of happening in your middle age time of life to prepare you for what is coming and help you deal with things a little easier? What happens to your mind and why does it happen? Well, those are just some of the things that go through the people in the late adulthood. Some of the questions are always asked by people that are in their late adulthood. My research is important because, it will help people in the late adulthood better understand what happens as they get older and help the middle age people understand what they may go through as they get older. Everyone’s body ages differently and some just do not understand what can happen or what may happen. To help the people in the world through life a little easier and maybe even give them a chance to get the help they need before it is too late and things get worse or causes more problems with themselves or their families. The study will help us better understand the different life spans of a human through their different stages in life. Help understand why our mind is not as functional as it was in our middle age time. Help understand why our body changes with time. This study will help the people as much as it will help us. We may be able to find a way to help the middle age prevent from going to memory loss and even psychology show them that there is maybe a way to go through a process in their time of age a little easier to where we can keep them from getting an eating disorder and find out why that happens when they get older. This will help us better understand why Alzheimer’s is just a problem and maybe do some research and see if we could understand mentally where they are in the state of mind they in and better understand this disease. This
References: Late Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development http://faculty.irsc.edu/FACULTY/CCulp/chapter_17_late_adulthood.htm McGraw-Hill Higher Education 2006 http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073133809/student_view0/chapter17/ Identity in Late Adulthood http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/11139_Chapter_8.pdf Life-Span Development Resources http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/life/devel-4.htm#ada