Unit 5 – Mid-late Adulthood
Name: Maisie Shim
HHS4M
Date: Jan 26 2021
Contemporary Theories of Aging & Adulthood (For Completion)
Using Chapter 13 of your textbook, make point-form summaries of each contemporary model of aging.
Then using your notes, evaluate which theory/model you would agree with the most.
The Stability
Template Model
Summary of Model (In-point form)
 Assumes people do not change once
they achieve adulthood
Real-life Example
A person who has had the habit of
reading before bed since he/she was a
baby has the habit of reading before
bed even when he/she is an adult.

The manner of the stagnation
The Orderly
Change Model

The individual’s identity is formed early
in life but changes through interaction
with the environment
After introducing the grandchildren,
they become grand parents and they
are doing grand parenting.
The Theory of
Random Change

Depends on how individual adapt their
new roles from fate or non-normative
event
One old woman spent her final year
alone after her husband died.
Social
Construction
Theory

Patterns of behaviour exist because
cohorts are exposed to the same events

Non-predictable

related to symbolic interactionism

feelings and actions are given meaning
based on the expectations of society

People choose to act in a certain way
based on personal interpretations of a
situation
Some words commonly used by
teenagers can be interpreted as “bad”
for the elderly.
Based on the above theories, which one explains adulthood development the best? Why? Use real-life
examples to help explain your reasoning.
Unit 5 – Mid-late Adulthood
HHS4M
The olderly Change model explains adulthood development the best because people can
not live without changing. The old saying goes, "A man should live according to his time." It
would be ideal for a person to change together in a changing stage. For example, if an old
man did a hard move as he did at a young age, it would put a strain on his knee so they
didn’t move toughly. Thus, i think the olderly change model is the best to see how old
people change in different stages.