The New Start

Each of us goes through three major development periods marked by significant physical, cognitive, personality, and social changes. The term adult comes from the Latin word Adultus, which means “grown to full size and strength” or matured.” An adult is therefore, an individual who has completed his growth and is ready to assume his status in society along with other adults. Adulthood is by fat and longest period in the total life span. During the long period of adulthood, certain physical and psychological changes occur at predictable times. Adulthood is subdivided, into three: (1) early adulthood,(2) middle adulthood and (3) late adult hood. Early adulthood extend from age eighteen to approximately age forty, when the physical and psychological changes, which accompany the beginning of the loss of reproductive capacity.

Middle adulthood begins at forty and extends to age sixty, when both physical and psychological decline become apparent in the average person. Late adulthood begins at sixty and extends to death. While physical and psychological decline speed up at this time, modern medical techniques, as well as, careful attention to clothing and grooming, enable many men and women to look, act, and fell, younger.