Presentation: Health Promotion Strategies for Middle Adulthood

This presentation focuses on health promotion during middle adulthood, highlighting the prevalence of health issues such as diabetes, blood pressure, and mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. It emphasizes the impact of stress, a common experience during this life stage, and its physiological effects. The presentation examines how cultural factors shape stress experiences and coping strategies. A key intervention discussed is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a psychotherapeutic approach that helps individuals identify and modify negative thought patterns to manage chronic stress and promote a healthier lifestyle. The presentation references several sources to support its claims and offers insights into effective strategies for promoting well-being during middle adulthood.

Health Promotion
through the Lifespan

Middle Adulthood
Middle adulthood is the lifespan on which this presentation is emphasize
on. The main reason behind choosing this is lifespan is that in this period
of life, many health issues occurs (González-Rodríguez and et. al.,
2020). The individuals suffering from various diseases like diabetes,
blood pressure, cardiac issues etc. In this period, Apart from this, during
this period of lifespan, many people are suffering from mental health
issues like dementia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety etc.

Life event that happens during Middle
Adulthood
In this span of life, the event which happens and can impact on health
on the individual is stress (Pakos‐Zebrucka, and et. al., 2016)
(Seaward, 2017). It is a feeling of physical and emotional tension and
come from event or thought which makes an individual feel angry,
nervous and frustrated. In the middle childhood span of life, there are
so many tensions due to which people take stress which is the normal
reaction of body when any changes occur (McCabe and et. al., 2020) .

Health Issue Related to Life Span
In the situation when an individual experience stress, the body reacts
to its by releasing some hormones (Miller and et. al., 2020). These
hormones make the brain of an individual more alert, which causes the
muscles to tense as well and increase the pulse of the body. The
culture shapes the type of stressors which person is possibly to
experience. Culture may also affect appraisal of stressfulness of the
provided event. Apart from this, cultures affect the choice associated
to coping strategies which a person utilize in the provided situation.

Intervention to Address the Issue
For managing the chronic stress in an appropriate way, cognitive
behavioral therapy is one of the significant intervention that help the
individuals of middle adulthood age in coping up with the stress
effectively and living a healthy lifestyle (Zambon, Mello e Silva
and Farnier, 2020). This is the most appropriate intervention as
cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic treatment which
help people of middle adulthood span of life to learn the way to
determine and change the destructive thought patterns which have
adverse influence on emotions and behavior of an individual.

REFERENCES
 Seaward, B.L., 2017. Managing stress. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
 Pakos‐Zebrucka, K., and et. al., 2016. The integrated stress
response. EMBO reports. 17(10). pp.1374-1395.

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