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Human Development Across the Lifespan Cover Image
Human Development Across the Lifespan, 5/e
John S. Dacey, Boston College
John F. Travers, Boston College
Late Adulthood
Psychosocial Development in Late Adulthood

Outline

  1. Social development
    1. Gender roles
      1. Role discontinuity
      2. Crossover in gender roles
      3. Gender-role differences in friendships
    2. Sexuality
      1. The Janus Report
        1. Sexual activity among the elderly
      2. Sex and the "old-old"
        1. Reported frequency and enjoyment of sexual intercourse
      3. Widowhood and sexuality
        1. Factors affecting gender differences in attitudes and interest in sex
      4. Impotency
        1. Psychological influences
        2. Hormonal changes in women
        3. Generative and existential love
    3. The elderly and their families
      1. Four stages in the life cycle that most middle-aged couples go through
        1. The child-rearing phase
        2. The childless preretirement period
        3. The retirement phase
        4. Widowhood and widowerhood
      2. Six types of conflict between aging parents and their children
        1. Communication and style of interaction
        2. Lifestyle choices and habits
        3. Parenting practices and values
        4. Religion, ideology, and politics
        5. Work habits
        6. Standards of household maintenance
      3. Widowhood
        1. Changes that occur with the death of a spouse
        2. Remarriage
        3. Reasons not to remarry
      4. Care of elderly parents
        1. Risk factors for the caretaker
        2. Nonrelative care options
      5. The changing role of the grandparent
        1. Styles of grandparenting
        2. Roles of grandparents
        3. Erikson's "generativity" and the significance of grandchildren to grandparents
    4. The older worker
      1. Performance
        1. No relationship between age and job performance
    5. Retirement
      1. Retirement and leisure
        1. Relationships among work, retirement, and leisure
        2. Leisure as a spillover function and compensatory function
      2. Making retirement more enjoyable
  2. Personal development
    1. Committee on Human Development
      1. Summary of research findings
        1. A change in the perception of time and death and the relationship of the self to them
        2. A change in perception of how well one can control the environment
        3. Decline in emotional energy
        4. Gender-role reversals occur
        5. Age-status becomes more rigid
      2. Optimal pattern of aging in terms of relationships with others
        1. Activity theory
        2. Disengagement theory
        3. Socioemotional selectivity theory
    2. Erikson
      1. Integrity versus despair








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