Developmental Profile: Late Adulthood Stage Of Life

A developmental profile is a way to observe and record the occupations that a subject completes in their everyday life. In order to complete an accurate developmental profile, as many areas of occupations as possible, should be recorded. The purpose of this paper is to create a developmental profile on a subject, who is in the late adulthood stage of life. After obtaining information on the subject, the information can then be compared to other various stages of life.

General Information

Personal Data The subject of this project’s name is Patricia. Patricia grew up in Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, with her mother and father. Patricia works hard to maintain a petite shape, by constantly managing her health. Patricia is married to her loving husband

It has been noted that the elderly do poorly is in divided attention tasks, which are “situations in which they need to memorize material and perform an activity while monitoring something else” (Belsky, 2016, pg. 393). Patricia explained that after the interview she had to go online to finish some of her work at a certain time. She kept checking the clock to make sure that it was not that time, so this showed that she has decent divided attention. In relation to the socioemotional perspective, Patricia has a wonderful outlook on life. In the socioemotional perspective the focus is on making what is left of someone’s life count (Belsky, 2016). In the text, it stated that Carstensen, the developer of this theory, “believes that the focus on making the most of every moment explains why late life is potentially the happiest life stage” (Belskey, 2016, pg. 399). Patricia strongly values her family, and makes the most of every day with them. She mentioned multiple times during the interview that everything she had worked for in life brought her to where she is today, and while she thinks of this time as a time to reflect on life, she also wants to make it as great as possible, because everyday is a gift. As for the physical domain, the aging process can result in several deficits, regarding the human body. At the stage of life Patricia is currently in, heart disease, stroke arthritis,

At the age of 65, Patricia falls into the life stage of late adulthood, which the primary task of this stage is integrity versus despair (Belsky, 2016). Integrity is when “elderly people decide that their life missions have been fulfilled and so accept impeding death” (Belsky, 2016, pg. 402). Even though Patricia is on the early end of late adulthood, she still has determined that her life missions have been fulfilled, but there is not reason at this point in time that she needs to stop fulfilling them. This shows that Patricia does display integrity, but she does not let the fact that she has reached late adulthood stop her from completing all of her meaningful activities. In the text it stated that “Erikson believed that, to reach integrity, older people must review their lives and make peace with what they have preciously done” (Belsky, 2016, pg. 402). Patricia has made peace with everything she has done, through reviewing her past years of