Deveopmental tasks of different age groups

1. Development tasks of different age
groups
Ms Shiwani Sah
Lecturer

2. Development tasks of different
age groups
O Developmental tasks refer to a physical or cognitive
skill that a person must accomplish during a
particular age period to continue development.
O A developmental task for infants is walking, which is
followed by the development of a sense of autonomy in
the toddler period.

3. Developmental task
O The concept of developmental tasks describes development as a
lifelong process.
O Thus, it is also an early and significant contributor to the
emerging field of lifelong human development (e.g., life-span
psychology and life-course sociology).
O In young adulthood, developmental tasks are mainly located in
family, work, and social life.
O Family-related developmental tasks are described as finding a
mate, learning to live with a marriage partner, having and
rearing children, and managing the family home

4. O A developmental task that takes an enormous amount of time of
young adults relates to the achievement of an occupational
career.
O Family and work-related tasks may represent a potential conflict,
given that individuals' time and energy are limited resources.
O Thus, young adults may postpone one task in order to secure the
achievement of another.
O With respect to their social life, young adults are also confronted
with establishing new friendships outside of the marriage and
assuming responsibility in the larger community.

5. Developmental
Task of Adult
group

6. Introduction
O Adulthood is a state of completion of physical
growth and development.
Growth:
 Is physical change and increase in size. It can be
measured quantitatively. Indicators of growth are
height, weight, bone size, bone density etc.
 The increase in size of a living being or any of its
parts occurring in the process of development; as
measured increments of weight, volume, or linear d
imensions.

7. Contd,
Development:
 Is an increase in complexity of function and skill
progression. It is the capacity and skill of a person to
adapt to the environment.
 Thus, development is the behavioural aspect of growth.
E.g. ability to talk, walk.
O Growth and Development are independent and
interrelated process.
O For e.g; Infant’s muscles, bones and nerve system must
grow to a certain point before and infant can sit up or
walk.
O Growth takes a place during 20 years of life but
development continues after that.

8. Adulthood is divided into three phases:
Young Adulthood : 21-39 years
Middle-aged Adult : 40-59 years
Late Adulthood : 60 years +

9. Developmental needs and task
of Young Adulthood
1.Achieving masculine or feminine social role.
2.Accepting one’s physique.
3.Achieving emotional independence from parents and
their adults.
4.Preparing for economic carrier/ Establish independence
from financial aid.
5.Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior.

10. 6.Preparing for marriage and family life.
7.Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to
behavior-developing an ideology.
8.Achieving new and more mature relations with others, both
boys and girls in their age group.

11. Developmental needs and task of
Middle Aged Adult
1) Maintain a pleasant and comfortable.
2) Assure security for later years, financially and
emotionally.
3) Share household and other responsibilities, based on
changing roles, interests and abilities.
4) Maintain emotional and sexual intimacy as a couple or
regain emotional stability if death or divorce occurs.

12. 5. Maintain contact with growing children and their families.
6.Decrease attention on child care takes place and learns to
adopt departure from children.
7. Meets the need of elderly parents in such a way as to make
life satisfactory for both the parents and middle-aged
generations.
8.Participate in community life beyond the family,
recommitting energy once taken by child care.

13. 9.Accept and adjust to the physical changes, maintain
healthful ways of living, attend to personal grooming and
maturity.
10. Prepare for retirement with financial arrangements,
develop hobbies and leisure activities and rework
philosophy and values.

14. O Middle adulthood. In middle adulthood, an important
challenge is to develop a genuine concern for the
welfare of future generations and to contribute to the
world through family and work.
O Erik Erikson refers to the problem posed at this stage
as generativity vs. self‐absorption.
O Robert Havighurst lists seven major tasks in the middle
years.
 accepting and adjusting to physiological changes, such
as menopause
 reaching and maintaining satisfaction in one's
occupation
 adjusting to and possibly caring for aging parents

15.  helping teenage children to become responsible adults
 achieving adult social and civic responsibility
 relating to one's spouse as a person
 developing leisure‐time activities
O While a midlife crisis is regarded as a universal phenomenon, during
one's 40s and 50s comes the recognition that more than half of one's life
is gone.
O That recognition may prompt some to feel that the clock is ticking and
that they must make sudden, drastic changes in order to achieve their
goals, while others focus on finding satisfaction with the present course
of their lives.

16. Developmental needs and task
of Older Aged Adult
1. Adjusting to decreasing physical health and strength.
2. Adjusting to retirement and reduced income.
3. Nurturing one another as husband and wife.
4. Caring for elderly relatives.
5. Maintaining contact with children and grand children.

17. 6. Meeting social and civic responsibilities.
7. Establishing satisfactory housing arrangements.
8. Affiliating with one’s age group.
9. Adjusting to death of spouse.
10. Finding meaning in life in the face of death.

18. Nursing implications
OIdentify expected physical, cognitive and
psychosocial stages of development
OIdentify expected body image changes associated
with client developmental age (e.g., aging,
pregnancy)
OIdentify family structures and roles of family
members (e.g., nuclear, blended, adoptive)
OCompare client development to expected
age/developmental stage and report any deviations

19. REHABILITATION

20. DEFINITION
⚫ Rehabilitation is a treatment designed to facilitate the
process of recovery from injury, illness, or disease to
as normal a condition as possible.

21. O It is restoration of ability to function.
O It is to support the patient with an injury or disability illness to
achieve maximum function and independence.

22. Goals of Rehabilitation
• Prevention of the loss of function.
• Slowing the rate of loss of function.
• Improvement or restoration of function.
• Compensation for loss of function
(compensatory strategies)
• Maintenance of current function.

23. Types of Rehabilitation:
⚫ Medical Rehabilitation: help a person better in all his daily
physical and mental activities. Related to increasing the
potential capabilities and correction of deformities, restoration of
functions.
⚫ Social Rehabilitation: Implies social life; restoration of
family, social interactions or relationship
⚫ Psychological Rehabilitation: Includes psychological
restoration of personal dignity and confidence of the disabled.
⚫ Vocational Rehabilitation: help those patient who find it
difficulty to get employment

24. Based on the treatment types
⚫ Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation.
⚫ Physical Rehabilitation
⚫ Speech Rehabilitation.
⚫ Occupational Rehabilitation.
⚫ Psychological Rehabilitation.

25. TYPES OF TEAM/SERVICES
Multidisciplinary team
Intradisciplinary team
Transdisciplinary team

26. Stress and Crisis
O Stress can be motivating and also damaging, it is always
present.
O Crisis is the build up of stressors to beyond a point where
a person can handle the situation.
O During stress a person can still function.
O During crisis the person will be unable to function and
will need assistance to get back to functioning levels.

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30. Thank you