Woolf Level 3 Unit 1 P1

Biological age 1 is a part of the age profile that refers to how old an individual feels in regards to how well their body and organs are functioning. Psychological age 2 refers to the impact that certain life events have had on one’s intelligence, learning ability, memory, or maturity. An individual's social age is divided into three categorical influence, one being nonnormative 3, where events in their life are not a common occurrence and may happen rather unexpectedly. As Woolf’s 5 research suggests, history-graded influences 4, such as war or an epidemic in the past, affect individuals within a culture in identical ways and nonnormative influences are what sets individuals apart across their lifespan. Every culture also has their own set
Oneis problem-focused, which includes time management and addressing the matter that is inducing stress head on. Another type is emotion focused 7 coping that includes praying about a stressful situation and talking about it openly. Venting 8 is an element that is emotion-focused and involves a verbal unloading of one’s negative thoughts to another individual ("Coping Styles, Coping Mechanisms: Ways To Deal With Stress", 2016). This person is usually a confidante that the stressed individual trusts and can seek advice
It involves discrimination against older adults because of stereotypes that suggest that they are to be ranked lower in society based specifically on their old age. This discrimination can exist in the workplace where older individuals are deemed as incapable 13 of completing a specific task because they are viewed as slow or easily manipulated. The modernization 14 hypothesis suggests that older individuals feel as if they are of lower value in society because of the increasing urbanization and use of technology. This may be due to the fact that they were not raised with the frequent use of technology as people are in today’s society and may not have the resources to be able to learn how to use