Unit 5

Chapter 12: Adulthood

Warm up 02/19

• What does it mean to be an adult?

• ages 20-40

• learning to be independent

• Reassessment - in 30so reevaluating decisions

am I on the right path?o might make a new life patho around the age most get married

Young Adulthood

• Settling Downo focus on advancing careers o more people postponing marriage and kids until

mid-30s

• Marriage/Relationshipso more likely to last with stabilityo Erikson- without intimate relationships you will be

isolated & lonely

• Marriage/Relationshipso patriarchy - men dominate familieso couple more likely to share in responsibilitieso marrying for love was not always the caseo choosing a spouse

generally marry people similar to you roughly the same age (usually)

• Divorceo Causes

“no-fault” divorce laws• easier to get a divorce?

increased economic independence for women unrealistic expectations of marriage

o financial burden the standard of living of one person likely to

fall child support & alimony

• Divorceo children of divorce

step-families create new dynamics stressful for the children regardless of age

You already wrote a letter to yourself…now it’s time to put those ideas into a plan.

• List the accomplishments you would like to achieve in the next 10 years

• include school, career, family, hobbies, etc.

10 year plan

• patriarchy

• generativity

• midlife crisis

• empty-nest syndrome

• menopause

• programmed theories

• hospice

• bereaved

Chapter 12 Vocab

• cellular damage theories

• cross-linking

• dementia

• senile dementia

• Alzheimer’s disease

• ego integrity

• euthanasia

• living wills

• What is a midlife crisis?

• Do you think that they are common?

Warm up 02/24

• ages ~40-65

• Generativityo the ability create, originate, and produceo maintain and enhance self-esteemo career, family, & communityo no generativity = stagnation

lack of achievement or development

Middle Adulthood

• Transitiono “how many years do I have left?”o crisis vs. age mastery

decided what to do with the remainder of their lives

o “middlescence” search for new identity

• Empty-Nest Syndromeo feeling of loss parents feel when their children

leave o allow women to set new personal goals

• Menopauseo end of menstruation (late 40s -50s)o hormonal changes

mood swings & irritabilityo men have a decline in testosterone

1. What identity status involves delaying making decisions?

2. What identity status involves not being committed to a set of personal beliefs?

3. What identity status involves making decisions that leave out other paths?

Warm up 12/03

• 65+

• Physical Changeso wrinkleso brittle bones

Late Adulthood

• Why do people age?o programmed theories

predetermined course of aging heredity

o Cellular Damage Theories malfunctioning cells environment influences aging

• Cognitive Changeso Senile Dementia

loss of cognitive functiono Alzheimer’s

not a normal part of agingo Vascular Dementia

bursting blood vessel in brain

• Social Changeso Retiremento Grandparenthoodo Living Arrangements

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” most are independent

• Successful Agingo ego integrity

maintaining dignityo adjustment

more adjusted = happier self-challenge leads to more fulfilling older life

• It can be whatever you want

• things to considero musical tasteso televisiono goalso family planning

• Self-address the back ...I will mail it to you in ~10 years.

Write a letter to yourself...

• What is death?

• Why are most people afraid to die?

Warm up 02/26

• Stages of Dying - Kübler-Ross

1. Denial

2. Anger

3. Bargaining

4. Depression

5. Acceptance

Death and Dying

• Dying with Dignityo Hospice - patients and families given physical &

emotional support dealing with terminal illnesso euthanasia - mercy killing

physician assisted suicideso Living Wills

pulling the plug

• Funeralo fairly expensiveo could leave loved ones in debt

• Bereavemento mourningo sudden deaths - families go through stages of

death

Death is not the opposite of life; it exists as a part of them.

• Toru Watanabe, from Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (1987).

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

• Mark Twain

An artist’s interpretation of death

STUDY GUIDE!

• What do you want people to say about you when you are gone?

• How would you want to be described?

• Write at least a paragraph.

Write your own eulogy

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/livingold/view/