Diversity In Late Adulthood
On a nice March midafternoon, I pulled up to an unfamiliar house in a familiar neighborhood. The exterior of the house looked like a normal house, the only thing that was abnormal was the height of the stairs going onto the porch. I walked into the house, and was drawn to the interior of it. The house looked like a stereotypical grandmother’s house: floral wall paper, old furniture, and pictures of grandchildren lining the walls. I tagged along with my dad to a Sunday lunch at the home of RP. RP is the head of my parents religious group, and he had everyone over for a guest speaker the first day I went with my parents to do this project. The only thing I knew going into this house was the description of this unique religious group my parents are a part of. This group is for people who are in late
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These changes include thinning hair, hair losing pigment, and age spots (Arnett, 2012). To cover up the hair losing its pigment, women often get it dyed. I experienced this at the meetings I attended when one of the ladies asked if they like her new color in her hair. Late adulthood individuals often start to have macular degeneration, which is the loss of clarity in the center of the visual field that comes from aging, which often leads to glasses (Arnett, 2012). During my field work experience, when reading their scriptures, a lot of them had reading glasses and sometimes enlarge the font on their technological devices to read. A physical characteristic I did not see at all during my experience (about 25 individuals overall) was hearing aids. I do not know if this is due to the individuals not having server enough hearing problems, or because of the stigma behind them. Often, older individuals do not use them because they are stubborn, but sometimes it could be the fear of looking down upon by other people according to Meister & von Wedel (2003, as cited by Arnett,
These changes include thinning hair, hair losing pigment, and age spots (Arnett, 2012). To cover up the hair losing its pigment, women often get it dyed. I experienced this at the meetings I attended when one of the ladies asked if they like her new color in her hair. Late adulthood individuals often start to have macular degeneration, which is the loss of clarity in the center of the visual field that comes from aging, which often leads to glasses (Arnett, 2012). During my field work experience, when reading their scriptures, a lot of them had reading glasses and sometimes enlarge the font on their technological devices to read. A physical characteristic I did not see at all during my experience (about 25 individuals overall) was hearing aids. I do not know if this is due to the individuals not having server enough hearing problems, or because of the stigma behind them. Often, older individuals do not use them because they are stubborn, but sometimes it could be the fear of looking down upon by other people according to Meister & von Wedel (2003, as cited by Arnett,