The nurse is working at a senior center when a client tells the nurse of an educational program that said that the older adult continues to have developmental tasks to complete
The nurse explains which of the following about Gould's tasks at the stage of development to the senior client? 1. Personalities are seen as set
2. Adjustment to decreasing physical capacities
3. Self-reflection
4. Period of transformation
4. Period of transformation
Rationale:
According to Gould, the seventh stage is experienced by those ages 50-60 and is a period of transformation. Gould's theory states that personalities are set at ages 43-50, in stage six. Adjusting to decreasing physical capacities is a part of Peck's theory and self-reflection occurs in stage five of Gould's theory, during the ages of 35 to 43.
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