Tarefas de desenvolvimento do adulto idoso <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: Old aged developmental tasks </span>

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Abstract

As tarefas de desenvolvimento são básicas em cada seqüência do ciclo de vida. Há uma expectativa social de que as pessoas em cada seqüência cumpram com êxito suas tarefas. Na última parte do ciclo de vida também a pessoa idosa tem tarefas de desenvolvimento a cumprir de modo a ser feliz e ter qualidade em sua vida. As tarefas do idoso são objeto de descrições e considerações. Pesquisas sobre as tarefas do idoso são importantes devido à necessidade de informações sobre o assunto.

Translated abstract

The developmental tasks are essential in every sequence of life cycle. There is a social expectation about people's performance in each sequence and its tasks. In the last part of the life cycle, there are developmental tasks the old aged person has to face in order to be happy and guarantee life quality. The old people's tasks are object of descriptions and considerations. Researches about the old aged tasks are considered important because the need of this subject information.

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The reciprocal effects of leisure time activities and intellectual functioning in older people: a longitudinal analysis.

Carmi Schooler, Mesfin Mulatu (2001)

By using data from a representative longitudinal survey, the authors provide strong evidence that complex leisure time activities increase intellectual functioning for workers and nonworkers. Although the effects were relatively moderate, both the present article and its predecessor on the effects of paid work (C. Schooler. Mulatu, & Oates. 1999) showed that, even in old age, carrying out complex tasks has a positive effect on intellectual processes. In both cases, initially high levels of intellectual functioning led to high levels of environmental complexity, which in turn raised levels of intellectual functioning, thus providing a pathway contributing to the high correlation of intellectual functioning over a 20-year period in middle and late adulthood. The present findings indicate that even in old age carrying out substantively complex tasks builds the capacity to deal with the intellectual challenges such complex environments provide.