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When did
you become an adult? Was it the day you graduated from high school? Or, was it
the day you moved out of your parents' or caregivers' home? Your description of
what it means to be an adult and how and when an adolescent transitions into adulthood may
differ from that of your colleagues.
The authors of your course
text, Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, use the term young and middle adulthood to identify the
life-span time period between age 18 and 65. This classification distinguishes
this time in the life of an individual from childhood and adolescence and from
the later years of adulthood.
Is the
authors' young and middle adulthood classification a useful one?
What is especially useful and not useful about the classification? What changes
would you make to the authors' classification to make it more applicable to
your role as a social worker?
For this
Discussion, you analyze the author's life-span classification and suggest ways
to improve it.
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Health Concern During Middle Adulthood
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Concerns at Middle Adulthood
As
a person's age, from childhood to adolescence, to middle adulthood, the human
body tends to change in terms of its ability to fight common diseases and even
react to food intake and exercising. Due to these biological and physical
changes, people in middle adulthood experience serval general health issues—the
first life-span related issue is weight gain. Data provided by Zheng et al. (2017) proves that a
significant number of obesity cases can be traced to people within the
middle-adulthood group. Excessive weight gain is dangerous to one's health
because it reduced mobility and general body activeness. This condition also
leads to other body complications that constrain the health of a person.
The second general health crisis associated with middle adulthood is depression. Most middle adults would have lots of things running in their...
