Physical and Psychological Changes: Ageing and Its Effects

This report provides an overview of the physical and psychological changes associated with ageing. It begins by introducing the concept of ageing and its impact on individuals. The report then delves into specific physical changes, such as the decline in vision and hearing, common among the elderly. Furthermore, it explores the psychological changes, including the impact on intelligence and creativity. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the significant effects of these changes on an individual's daily activities. References are provided to support the information presented. This document is designed to help students understand the multifaceted aspects of ageing and its impact on human life. Desklib offers access to this and other assignments to help students excel in their studies.

Development Through
The Life Stages

Cover Content
 Introduction
 Physical and psychological changes associated with ageing
 Physical changes
 Psychological changes
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Development through life stages refers to developing aspects in various
levels of life throughout the life span.
 Apart from this, Ageing is the process in which body modification take
place in individual at structural and functional level.
 It will going to discuss physical and psychological changes related to
ageing.

Physical and psychological changes associated
with ageing
 Ageing is the procedure at which changes take place such as structural
and functional within individual as result of the time passage. There are
some physical and psychological changes related to ageing explanation
of these are as follows :-
 Physical changes
 Psychological changes

Physical changes
 There are several changes related to ageing that can take place within
individual physic explanation are as follows :-
 Eye Health – Changes within eyesight is most common with ageing and
it has noticed that eyes get drier, that colours are less vibrant as well as
glasses will also need for reading anything.
 Hearing – Among Canadian Seniors hearing problem is most common.
According to Canadian Hearing Society estimates that 60% of people
over 65 are having hearing loss while ageing.

Psychological changes
 There are several psychological changes which take place within body
of particular person due to ageing. Explanation of these are as follows :-
 Intelligence – Difference within Intelligence is function of age which
has been founded. In comparison of early age several changes take
place within particular person intelligence level along with ageing.
 Creativity – It is related to individual capacity of generating new ideas
as well as original solution which are related to present mental
condition. Ageing also have its wide impact on particular person

Conclusion
 From the above discussion it has been summarised that, as an human
being get older there are several modification which take place at
physical as well as psychological level.
 All these result in several modification in conducting day to day
activity of individual.

References
Newman, B. M. and Newman, P. R., 2017. Development through life: A
psychosocial approach. Cengage Learning.
Tanner, J. L. and Arnett, J. J., 2016. The emergence of emerging adulthood: The
new life stage between adolescence and young adulthood. In Routledge
Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood (pp. 50-56). Routledge.
Britto, P. R. and et. al., 2017. Nurturing care: promoting early childhood
development. The Lancet. 389(10064). pp.91-102.

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