The Text Suggests That Older Adulthood Is Best Thought of as Consisting

question 157

Multiple Choice

The text suggests that older adulthood is best thought of as consisting of 4 distinct age-related periods. Why is older adulthood, but not other stages of development, divided into "substages"?

• A) This is the fastest growing part of the U. S. population.
• B) Older adults differ more dramatically from each other than do people in other age groups.
• C) Older adults are mostly White, so they generally are not divided into racial/ethnic categories, making age the best way to divide them into groups.
• D) Everyone in older adulthood is pretty much alike in most regards, so they need to be divided into different age groups so they can be studied more accurately.

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