HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Orgasm, Headache, Dementia
2 Dec 2016
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How the family is affected by old age and very old age. Remember psychological outlook is more important that chronological age. Marital issues just because a couple has grown old together does not mean they necessarily have happy, satisfying relationship. Coping with issues in later adulthood is determined by how the couple has managed conflict and the relationship all along. Re-balancing the boundary between work and family. Work is a distance regulator: it creates time for couple to be separate. And structures the time you have to be with your partner. Not necessarily a good/bad thing - ordinary difficulty. Myth that they will spend more time together or that husbands will be more involved and household tasks and family life. Rebalancing of this new time can become source of conflict. Spending free time by yourself can be offensive to the. Coping with the physical changes of aging partner behavioral slowing.
