GERO-1016EL Study Guide - Final Guide: History Of Arda
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Module 8 developmental theory and aging: stages/transitions and life course theory. As we age, there are loses in physical appearance and physical functioning, but human beings need to be looked at holistically, as persons, as persons, in relationships, as beings capable of enormous creativity. Life course perspective offers us a broad view of the life span. Life course perspective takes into account personal growth throughout the stages of life and the social roles one plays. Non-normative life events (car accident or sudden illness) do not fit into what we perceived a normal life cycle to be and we cannot plan for them, but they do happen. Normative, age-graded life events involve those events that society expects will happen to us at a certain age: shape our lives in that these ordinary life cycle events do affect and change us. Last stage of ego-integrity which he sees as a time of personal reflection, for doing inner work on one"s soul.