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• Survival Guide for Children of Divorce

Relate to aging• What is your definition of aging?

• Think to your future….where do you see yourself at• Age 20

• College and Career, Where will you live?• Age 30

• Future children – describe them• Age 40

• Financial stability and helping your children• Age 50

• Retirement Plans and thinking ahead• Age 60

• Retirement and grandkids

• What is the hardest part of aging? What will be one of the easiest part of aging?What are you looking forward to during retirement years?What scares you the most about aging?

Aging

• 15.1 – page 286

• 1. Financial Issues – Fixed incomes

• 2. Medical Care

• 3. Living Arrangements

• Shared Housing

• Group Housing

• Living with Family

• Retirement Communities

• Nursing Homes

• Elder Abuse

Aging• Images of aging…

• What are ways to move beyond stereotypes?

• Aging Process – study of this is called gerontology

• 1. Honeymoon stage – people retire, enjoy activities

• 2. Active stage – “What am I going to do with the rest of my life?” Focus on hobbies/volunteer work.

• 3. Slowing-down stage – Pause and reflect on life, give up activities and find new ones

• 4. Reminiscing stage – look back and assess lives, old memories and stories, observe more and do less, comfort and ease become important

• 5. Sunset stage – ready to put things in order, tie up loose ends, may patch up poor relationships, may be the time the adult enters into a care facility

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• Mental Changes

• Dementia – progressive decline in cognition function due to damage or disease of the brain

• Alzheimer’s disease – common form of dementia – causes memory loss, impaired thinking, and carrying out everyday abilities