The Family Life Cycle: Senior/Aging Stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaD5iwUHSq
Rewards
- Becoming a grandparent
- Free from responsibilities of raising your children
- Exploring your own interests
- Welcoming new family members
- Reflecting on everything you have learned and experienced during your life
Description
Tasks of this stage
Challenges
Many changes are occurring in your life. Welcoming new family members or seeing others leave your family is often a large part of this stage as your children marry or divorce or you become a grandparent.
- Maintaining your own interests and physical functioning
- Explore new family & social roles
- Providing emotional support for your adult children and extended family members
- Dealing with the loss of a partner, siblings, and other peers, and preparing for your own death
- Declining physical and mental abilities
- Being a support to other family members
- Changes in your social and financial status
- Maintaining relationships