As I take the time to reflect through my personal experience during this course I have came to a clear conclusion that there is now an understanding of what the term “adulthood aging” truly means. Through this course, it is without hesitation that I have gained an abundant amount of knowledge over the life cycle of an individual that prepares us when aging. Gaining this understanding has helped me answer the simple question of this paper: “What is aging?” As I take the time to put my thoughts and knowledge into words throughout this paper, it is important that there is a clear understanding of the aging paradigm that has helped me justify what aging means to me, the in-class interviews that have given a clear vision of how certain theories can be put into place, and how I would define what aging means in my own terms of understanding.
Lifespan Development
The term lifespan development refers to age-related changes that occur anywhere from birth, throughout a persons’ life, …show more content…
Lifespan development was the aging paradigm I chose to focus on throughout this paper for three primary reasons: I have learned that how we age often develops on how we have react to our life experiences in earlier times such as childhood and middle adulthood, how we cope with stress and depression throughout life, and how we develop connections with those who support us in any type of relationship. Lifespan theory gave a clear definition as to how this can effect how someone ages overtime. Lifespan theory gives reasoning as to why we react to certain life events the way we do. Often times, we react in a way that we have seen or we have learned throughout our life. Each year of life is a building block of lessons and how we react and learn from those lessons in life will reflect in how we eventually age
Lifespan Development
The term lifespan development refers to age-related changes that occur anywhere from birth, throughout a persons’ life, …show more content…
Lifespan development was the aging paradigm I chose to focus on throughout this paper for three primary reasons: I have learned that how we age often develops on how we have react to our life experiences in earlier times such as childhood and middle adulthood, how we cope with stress and depression throughout life, and how we develop connections with those who support us in any type of relationship. Lifespan theory gave a clear definition as to how this can effect how someone ages overtime. Lifespan theory gives reasoning as to why we react to certain life events the way we do. Often times, we react in a way that we have seen or we have learned throughout our life. Each year of life is a building block of lessons and how we react and learn from those lessons in life will reflect in how we eventually age