Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The life course perspective views “stages of life” as unchanging and universal in meaning.
2. If leisure activity is to be a path to deeper meaning, then it must have some dimension of growth or personal development.
3. de Beauvoir argues that old age brings serenity in that all of life’s conflicts have been resolved and people can happily live out the remainder of their lives.
4. Erikson, Erikson, and Kivnick argue that elders should accept the inevitable losses of aging and retreat from society.
5. Erikson, Erikson, and Kivnick argue that recollection is one way to adapt to the constant losses that occur in old age, but a more rewarding form of adaptation is to develop new relationships.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True

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