Week 1 - O'Brien - Interpretations and Views on Chapter One

Blog Post Eight: Bringing it Together For this last blog post, we really put it all together. Throughout the course, we studied the developmental process for the human body as we progressively age. This last chapter we examined how to put the theories into practice by constructing meaning out of the facts that were presented in the text. “The concepts of informal inquiry and the more formal action research are two ways people may choose to explore and apply lifespan theories” (Fiore, 2011). These concepts forced me to further analyze the findings of the text. Over the last century, lifespan development has experienced a lot of growth and change. This can be notably seen with the rise of social media and the world wide web. All content put onto the web can be seen by the public and all information across multiple sources can be shared instantaneously. Therefore, increasing human’s ability to interact with each other. From my point of view, this can be a startling idea because any per...

Week Seven Blog Post In chapter 12 we studied death and the spiritual role it plays in our lives. There are four types of death recognizable in todays medical field. Clinical death, physically speaking, is when an individual breathing has stopped, or their heartbeat has stopped. Brain death is the failure of the brain to receive a stuffiest amount of oxygen for a time of 8 to 10 minutes. This is considered to be a irreversible coma. In the chapter we also examine biological death which occurs when there is no observable electric pulse going to the heart and lungs. This causes all bodily functions to cease working. Page 282 discusses how researcher, David Sudnow was the first person to conceptualize the idea of social death, which suggests a person is physically still alive but is seen as dead to society. This brings up the legality of what death actually is. In 1968, the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Criteria of Brian Death stated, “unreceptivity and unresponsive, no mo...

Week 6 Blog Post Chapters 9 and 10 dove into early and middle adulthood. The chapter describes how transitioning into adulthood in the United States is becoming more and more complicated. This is because of the demand for skills and education is increasing. Table 9.2 explains how early adulthood the point in life is at which we see a slowdown of the physical changes that occur in the body. We also study how the organs are used in the body. Organ reserve as described on page 210 is the total capacity our organs are able to sustain. Our organs are meant to be able to do a lot more than they are asked on a daily basis but as we age that capacity slowly lessens. This is also connected to our physical health and the choices that we make. The effects of lifestyle on health is very important to maintain that standard of nutrition. Healthy eating habits are very important to develop during this stage in your life that one will be able to carry out through the rest of their life. It is also...