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Middle Age to Surviving Spouse: Navigating Family Life Stages

Explore the challenges and joys of middle age, empty nesting, retirement, widowhood, and grandparenting. Discover the effects of the graying of America and receive recommendations for a long and healthy life.

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Middle Age to Surviving Spouse: Navigating Family Life Stages

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  1. Chapter 11 Family Life Stages: Middle Age to Surviving Spouse

  2. Chapter Outline • Dealing with Change: Another Characteristic of the Strong, Healthy Family • The Graying of America • Middle Age: The Empty Nest

  3. Chapter Outline • Retirement • Widowhood as the Last Stage of Marriage • The Grandparenting Role • Older but Coming on Strong

  4. Periods of Long-term Marriage • Newly married • Early parenthood • Later parenthood • Middle age • Retirement • Widowed singleness

  5. Effects of the Graying of America • It is no longer necessary to have two babies to produce one adult. • The number of living grandparents is greatly increased for children. • Marriages potentially can last much longer, so more couples experience middle age and prolonged retirement together.

  6. Effects of the Graying of America • Greater survival advantages for women, relative to men, have increased the period of widowhood. • The number of elderly persons depending on middle-aged children is increasing. • More methods of care for infirm, elderly persons must be made available.

  7. Middle Age Middlessence: The second adolescence, experienced in middle age,usually involving reevaluation of one’s life.

  8. People 55 and Over

  9. Widowhood • The average age at widowhood is 70 years for women and 72.3 years for men. • There are approximately six times more widows than widowers in the United States.

  10. The Grandparenting Role • Individuals may now spend up to half their lives as grandparents. • For some, fulfilling the role of grandparent can bring back the joys and satisfactions of their own early family life. • It is quite possible today for grandparenting to be longer than the period in which one’s own children were at home.

  11. Recommendations for a Long, Healthy Life • Cut back on drinking. • Avoid smoking. • Avoid foods rich in cholesterol and fat.

  12. Recommendations for a Long, Healthy Life • Eat high-fiber foods such as whole-grain cereals. • Stay out of the sun. • Exercise at least three times a week, including both aerobics and strength training.

  13. Quick Quiz

  14. 1. The second adolescence, experienced in middle age, usually involving the reevaluation of one’s life is • Grandparenthood • Middle Age • Midlife Crisis • Middlessence

  15. Answer: d • The second adolescence, experienced in middle age, usually involving the reevaluation of one’s life is middlessence.

  16. 2. The final stage of marriage is often • Widowhood • Grandparenthood • Retirement • None of the above

  17. Answer: a • Widowhood is often the final stage of marriage.

  18. 3. Which is not a recommendation for a long, healthy life? • Cutting back on drinking. • Avoiding smoking. • Enjoying foods rich in cholesterol and fat. • Staying out of the sun.

  19. Answer: c • Enjoying foods rich in cholesterol and fat is not recommended as a strategy for living a long, healthy life.

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