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| the combination of statuses,roles, activities, goals,values,beliefs, and life circumstances that characterize an individual. |
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| the bridged between adolescence and adulthood. The first task to leave home physically and psychologically.. Occurs when you go to college or move out of your parents home. |
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| Self examination; the individuals question their life structures. They come to the realization you're not going to achieve the dreams you had earlier. |
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| first three periods of the early adulthood era |
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| someone who fosters an individual's development |
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| consists of all invidiuals age 16 and older who are employed in paid positions or who are seeking paid employment |
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| high status occupation that requires specialized skills obtained through formal education |
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| is the situation that occurs when a person does not have a job, but is actively seeking a job. |
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| is the percentage of the civilian labor force, that is unemployed but actively seeking employment |
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| the scientific study of the processes and phenomena of aging |
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| the study of the non-physical aspects of the aging process |
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65-74 adjustment to retirement
Suicide rates are high, around this age, especially for white men |
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85 and older
body cells begin to die
the entire body, slowly loses weight
nervous system slows down |
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an organic condition that results in the progressive deterioration of brain cells.
A symptom would be the inability to remember current events |
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| is the shift from being an independent adult to being depended on other for physical and financial assistance |
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