The Life Stage: Later Adulthood

Question 1

What is LATER ADULTHOOD age range?

Answer 1

65+.

Question 2

Improvements in diet and medical treatment can lead to…

Answer 2

People living a healthy longer lifestyle.

Live 20-30 years after they retire from work at 65.

Question 3

Older people can be…

Answer 3

Some of the most productive members in society.

Skills younger people often wish they had.

Question 4

What illness is appropriate for someone who is 65+?

Answer 4

Dementia.

Question 5

What is DEMENTIA?

Answer 5

Illness that affects the brain and memory.

Lose ability to think and behave normal.

Question 6

Why do older people like to play PUZZLES?

Name 5

Answer 6

Promotes intellectual development.
Stimulates the brain.
Doesn't require movement.
Enjoyment/Hobby.
Reduce risk of dementia.

Question 7

Physically what might happen to later adult hoods skin?

Answer 7

Thin.
Less elastic.
More wrinkles.

Question 8

Physically what might happen to later adult hoods bones?

Answer 8

Become more brittle.

Joints stiffing.

Question 9

Less mobile than…

Answer 9

Younger people.

Question 10

Physically what might happen to an older person’s height?

Answer 10

Stoop.
Lose height.
Hunch back.

Question 11

Loss of…

Answer 11

Skills and physical capacity.

Question 12

Intellectually what might happen to a person’s brain?

Answer 12

Speed pf thinking shortens.

Memory decreases.

Question 13

Intelligence doesn’t…

Answer 13

Decline.

Question 14

Intellectually people are keen…

Answer 14

To learn skills and broaden knowledge.

Question 15

Dementia and…

Answer 15

Mental illnesses start to develop.

Question 16

Time spent…

Answer 16

With family and friends.

Question 17

Emotionally retired people take things…

Answer 17

At a steadier pace.

Leading to feelings of contentment and happiness.

Question 18

Why might it EMOTIONALLY be hard in the later adult hood stage?

Answer 18

Lose partners and friends to death.

Distressing and hard to deal with.

Question 19

Emotionally support is…

Answer 19

Important of family and neighbours to them.

Question 20

Always make sure older people from the later adult hood category aren’t…

Answer 20

Lonely or feel isolated.

Question 21

Socially what happens at this life stage?

Answer 21

Split into 2 parts.
First part is 67-75.
Second part is 75+.

Question 22

Socially what happens in the first part?

Answer 22

People tend to be very active.
Busy social life.
Often ‘on the go’.

Question 23

Socially what happens in the second part?

Answer 23

Tend to slow down. doesn’t mean they socialise less.

Type of socialising may just be different.

Question 24

During this life stage physically what will people lose?

Name 4

Answer 24

Muscle tone and strength.
Mobility decreases.
Fine motor skills.
Sensory loss