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yuradex [85]
3 years ago
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What are the characteristics of older adulthood?

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Vladimir79 [104]3 years ago
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Answer:People in the older adulthood stage are 65 years old or older. This stage is usually a period in which an adult is wiser and more knowledgeable. Older adults are also generally more mature and more emotionally stable. Older adulthood is often characterized by a reduced ability to fight off illness resulting in an increase of health problems. Individuals in this stage may also experience mental problems like depression, anxiety, or loneliness.

user100 [1]3 years ago
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Old or late adulthood is the stage of growth in which diseases are easily and always present and sometimes due to weak immune system and other cause are chromatic diseases. Skin continues to lose elasticity, reflexes starts to slow and same with their reaction time. mobility and muscles strength begins to decrease, hearing and vision begins to dull. Mostly people with this age may have a lower function in their brain leading to intellectual diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
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