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Is between the ages of 40-60 or 65. The years between 61 and 65 are the transition period to late adulthood. Cognitive Development is at it's peak during this time.

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No two people age the same way.
Gray hair occurs and hair loss in men accelerates.
Skin becomes dryer and wrinkles form.
Lean body mass declines with age due to muscle loss.
Exercise and diet contribute to this.

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Changes in vision occur (Many Middle Adults require reading glasses).
Lung tissue stiffens diminishing ability to expand.
Metabolism declines.
Bones being to lose density.
Blood-sugar tolerance decreases.

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Verbal Ability maintains stability but our timed performance decreases.
People mature differently due to cultural and social settings.
Our specialized knowledge increases but our fluid intelligence decreases.
Information processing and Memory also decrease.

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At our height of creativity during middle adulthood.
Mature learners - we begin to seek learning things that we're interested in.
Many women go back to school during this age.

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Generavity vs. Stagnation

Generavity is the ability to generate or produce. Based on wanting to influence future generations either through your own children or others.

Stagnation results in a life stripped of meaning and purpose

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Midlife Transition between the ages of 40-45.
Midlife crisis –Time of dramatic self-doubt and anxiety during which people sense the passing of their youth and become preoccupied with concern about the imminence of their own mortality

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Parent/Child Relationships

Balance between staying in touch and not interfering with their lives.
Some still live at home and are financially dependent.

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Is seen as a positive life experience.
Grandparents spend a higher proportion of their time with their grandchildren in recreational and educational activities

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Burden of taking care of parents usually falls on the daughter.
Sandwich generation refers to middle-aged daughter taking care of her own children and/or grandchildren as well as her aging parents

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Most people in middle adulthood have at least one living sibling.
Some sibling relationships get better as they take care of aging parents together.
Adults in middle adulthood tend to have fewer friends.
Middle-aged adults place value on the friends they do have.
Loss of a friend is felt very deeply.