Late Adulthood

Late Adulthood

By Brian Lynn Bentley

Human Behavior DB5

Colorado Technical Univeristy

How do older workers fit into the workforce? In your opinion, are they experts or “has-beens”? I think older people, are a mixture of both, they have real world experiences with people and problems but attitudes times and technology changes and may not be as up to speed on things. I do not think they are "Has-beens". and every now and then doing something the "Old Fashioned way" is a way that may just work. The old saying tried and true seems valid. So you may get experience from a similar situation that older person had and he or she can walk you or help you through it. Some problems never change and some answers never change. So they do fit in the workforce allot longer then they used too.

How have your personal experiences and what you have learned in this course about adult relationships and divorce reshaped your views on adolescent, early adult, and adult romantic relationships? What i have learned is allot of the stuff about growing up remains pretty much the same no matter if we grew up in 1400 or grew up in 2000 and i am sure much will be the same in the future with moderate cultural and political adaptations to the era they would reside in. All the theories with some adaption to the current generation does seem to apply we all do go through recognizable stages of development and growth. before i took these classes it was most I was a Kid then i hit puberty then i became a teen then there was adult and finally old with my re conceived and prejudice ideas about aging.

Are your views on religion and faith, or the views of those around you, influenced by your feelings on or realities of death and dying? Yes they are in many cases even when i was an atheist i was in no hurry to buy property in final resting place shady cemetery. I am Not afraid of dying, maybe some ways of dying some are particularly unpleasant so i heard. It is something we have all dealt with and something we will deal with in the future, its one thing when some one way older then you dies but your mortality becomes abundantly clear when some one near your age dies. whether you are in Middle school or over 40. it does make you think, about life choices whether to keep going with them or suddenly alter them. Perhaps finding s new job or moving to a new place or going back to school. Reality is Be it Religious persons or atheists persons mortality does hit home and with religious people maybe more so. Allot of faiths believe in a good place to go after death or a not so pleasant place to go after death. You always see these last second conversion's on death beds or right before an electric chair or something like that. Overall some people handle it allot better then others.

So when it comes down to it, You have to choice to Die happy and satisfied or unfulfilled which will it be? The quality of life for the older generation of folks has increased they are living longer , even looking younger longer. They are doing more activities that we usually associate with the young. Playing Physic an and sedentary sports beyond shuffle board. When i was a kid seemed every one over 50 was either on a cane or had blue or gray hair. That is no longer the case. And we seem t be pushing that magical 120 Dead end number of life expectancy."Despite rising life expectancy, whose extrapolation leads to remarkable enhance for future values, life span calculations with the help of our mathematical models do not indicate an extent beyond the limit of 120 years."(Ruiz-Torres, A., & Beier, W, 2005).Th conclusion the this report is that we can theoretically enhance it but we got to arrive there first. Overall we are mortal no matter how immortal we pretend to be.

References

Ruiz-Torres, A., & Beier, W, 2005. On maximum human life span: interdisciplinary approach about its limits. - PubMed - NCBI. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16075672

University Research Institute of Gerontology and Metabolism, Madrid, Spain. iuigm.hlpr@salud.madrid.org