Mr. Tan is an 81-year-old man who resides in a long-term care facility. The nurse recognizes that a primary developmental task for Mr. Tan is to resolve the potential conflict between integrity and despair
The nurse is referring to which theorist's psychological theory of aging?
A) Piaget
B) Jung
C) Kohlberg
D) Erikson
Ans: D
Erikson's theory of human development identifies the primary conflict of older adults as integrity versus despair.
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