NURS303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gender Binary, Middle Age, Heteronormativity
15 Dec 2017
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Discuss major life events and developmental tasks of young and middle-aged adults. Discuss the significance of family in the life of the adult. Describe normal physiological changes in young and middle adulthood, including pregnancy. Discuss cognitive and psychosocial changes that occur during the adult years. Describe health concerns of young and middle-aged adults. Apply clinical decision making to administer care to young and middle-aged adults. Young adulthood is the period between the late teens and the mid- to late 30s. Young adults constituted approximately 27% of the canadian population in 2011. Middle age is the period between the mid- to late 30s and the mid-60s. Patients in this developmental stage may benefit from a personal lifestyle assessment to identify habits: e. g. , home conditions, occupational environment. Cognitive changes are variations in reasoning and thinking. Critical thinking habits increase steadily through the young and middle adult years.
