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¶ … Features of Late Adulthood and the Psychosocial Factors that Impact Individuals at this Developmental Stage
A number of psychologists such as Erikson, Levinson and Kohlberg and others have suggested that most humans develop along certain developmental stages during their lives, during which certain key features emerge and various challenges and obstacles must be overcome in order to successfully advance to the more advanced stages (Shaver & Tarpy, 1994). While the authorities may not agree of the precise components of the various stages, it would seem that most people do in fact experience a number of developmental features that provide for some fairly accurate generalizations; these issues as they apply to the key features of late adulthood and the impact of psychosocial factors during this period of life are discussed further below.
Key Features of Late Adulthood. According to Erik Erikson's stages of development, late adulthood occurs during the seventh stage, generativity (the need to show the next generation the way at the expense of one's own self-interest) versus a sense of stagnation (this occurs if the generativity component...
This author points out that late adulthood "is a time of significant development and a major turning point. The tasks are to conclude the efforts of middle adulthood and prepare for the next phase of life" (Austrian, p. 205). Physiologically, late adulthood is characterized by diminishing physical and cognitive abilities, less income compared with previous years, and the general maladies and frailties typically associated with getting older; however, physical impairments are not the only risks that are associated with disabilities and increasing frailty in the elderly. "Attention must also be paid to the impact of mental health problems," Cox says, "particularly depression, on the functioning of older adults" (1993, p. 7). Much like Maslow's hierarchy of needs working in reverse, when people reach late adulthood, they tend to concentrate their efforts on satisfying their fundamental needs such as adequate food, shelter and clothing, even when sufficient resources exist otherwise to ensure these needs are addressed. During late adulthood, people's lives also tend to become more concentrated in certain rooms of their homes…
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