Adult
Development
Information on normative
age-graded influences, with associated research findings.
Information on cognitive
changes associated with the aging process.
Pictorial information on physical changes
associated with the aging process.
Information on lifespan
development and lifelong learning.
When you are feeling up to it, here is a lengthy multiple
choice quiz on life-span development issues.
Take the real age test to
determine if you are biologically younger, older, or the same as your calendar
age? I take the test every two years just to see how I am doing. Here
is another one to determine your health age and expected life expectancy.
Here is a fun
mental age test. How old are you mentally?.
Here are several suggested ways you can increase
your life expectancy as you age.
Here is an article entitled Successful Aging: Finding the
Fifth Level. Here is the larger
research report from which this article was developed.
What is the best design for a learning setting when taking into account
developmental differences among the learners? Here is an article related to designing the best physical
environment. Finally, here is a related slide show.
A journal article containing some research using both qualitative and
quantitative research methods. Here is the larger research report from
which the article was developed. Here is a book I helped edit years ago on research methods.
Online IQ tests have their limitations, but here is one if you are curious for an
approximate score.
Calculate
your body mass index (BMI).
Here is a piece on the stereotyping of the elderly in TV
commercials. This article is several years old, so how different do you
think the results would be today?
Here is a simple visual acuity test.
Humor
and laughter may influence health.
This site provides a good description of Alzheimer’s
disease. Be sure to take the brain tour!
A site devoted to information on assisted living Alzheimer's,
and long term care.
A help ful site in finding
information on nursing homes, senior
housing, assisted living, memory care and retirement communities.
Do you need external
memory aids and strategies?
Grandparents
raising grandchildren.
The joys and complexities of sibling
relationships.
Dealing with workplace transitions.
Presentation
on Adult Career Planning and related instruments.
John Holland’s career
type test description.
BrainTrack’s Career
Guide with such features as original career profiles and career statistics.
The five major dimensions of
personality.
An interesting research study on personality
development in older adults.
An interesting piece on Jane Loevinger.
A great write-up on Abraham Maslow.
Here is a great article by Ralph Brockett, Self-directed
learning and the paradox of choice,
beginning on page 27,where he talks about positive psychology.
Here is a site where I include considerable research
on older adults as
learners and another one that is a self-study guide on educational gerontology.
Time Magazine
devoted an issue to the God Gene.
Here is a related article: Religion:
Is God in our Genes?
Many Unitarian Universalist churches across the U.S.
facilitate small
study groups on various spiritual enrichment topics.
Professor Howard McClusky developed a Theory of Margin
to help explain how people cope
with the stresses of life.
Several interesting articles on spirituality
and age from the interesting Helium site.
The Journal of Religion and
Health contains many useful articles.
A book chapter on Kohlberg’s stages of moral
development.
A good description of Jim Fowler’s stages of faith.
Useful information on stress
and adaptation.
The history of the Hospice movement
in the United States.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ web site.
The life review process.
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Updated by Roger Hiemstra, November 7, 2013