Late adulthood, also known as old age, is typically defined as beginning at age 60. This stage is characterized by physical and mental decline. Individuals experience a loss of jobs and independence as they retire from work. They also fear changes to their health. Late adulthood involves adjusting to age-related changes like decreasing strength, retirement, loss of a spouse, and reduced social roles. Maintaining good physical and mental health through diet, exercise, and social engagement can help support a longer, healthier life in old age.

1. LATE ADULTHOOD
(Old Age)
RENATO U. IGNACIO, JR.
JAMI DAVE G. SERRANO

2. LATE ADULTHOOD
- Is the closing period in the life span.
- It is period when people “move away”
from previous, more desirable periods or
times of “usefulness”.
- Age 60 usually considered the dividing line
between middle and late adulthood.

3. LATE ADULTHOOD
- During this stage, most individuals lose their
jobs because they retire from active service.
- They begin to fear about their physical and
psychological heath.

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE
1. Late adulthood is a period of decline:
- Aging
- The period during late adulthood when physical and
mental decline is slow and gradual.
- “Senility” – refer to the period during late adulthood
when a more or less complete physical breakdown
takes place and when there is mental disorganization.
- The individual who becomes eccentric, careless,
absent-minded, socially withdrawn, and poor adjusted
is usually described as “senile”.

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE
2. Individual Differences in the Effects of Aging
- It is recognized that aging affects different
people differently.
- People are different because they have
different hereditary endowment,
socioeconomic, educational backgrounds and
different patterns of living.

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE
3. The Elderly have a Minority-Group Status
- They occupy a minority-group status – a
status that excludes them to some extent from
interacting with other groups in the population
which gives them little or no power.

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE
4. Aging requires role changes
- They cannot compete with young people in the
areas where highly valued traits are needed,
the social attitude toward them is unfavorable.

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE
5. Poor Adjustment is Characteristic of Old Age
- Elderly people tend, as a group, to be more subject
to maladjustments than those who are younger.
- Due to increased loss of status in a society
dominated by the young, a desire to protect their
finances for their lives, and a desire to escape
partial – helplessness and pain.

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE
6. The desire to rejuvenate is widespread in
late adulthood
- Elderly people has the desire to remain young
as long as possible and to rejuvenate when the
sign of aging appear.
- Today, medicine is being taken to replace sex
hormones, therapy, geroviral – the young drug.

10. Developmental Tasks of Old Age
- Retirement
- During this time, the man or his wife very likely
experience several of the following things:
decreased income
moving to smaller house
loss of spouse
illness or accident
- Must learn new ways of living

11. Adjustment:
1. Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and
heath
2. Adjusting to retirement and reduce income
3. Adjusting to death of spouse
4. Establishing an explicit affiliation with one’s age
group
5. Meeting social and civic organization
6. Establishing satisfactory physical living
arrangement

12. Changes:
1. External Change
2. Internal Changes
3. Changes in Sensory Capacities
4. Cognitive Functioning in older adults
5. Changes in mental abilities and interest

13. Key to Longer and Healthier Life
1. Eat healthy diet
2. Exercise regularly
3. Reduce stress level
4. Don’t smoke or drink alcohol and other drugs
5. Cultivate certain positive qualities
6. Engage with activities of social welfare
7. Develop spirituality and faith