late adulthood

collocation in English

meaningsoflateandadulthood

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late
adjective
adverb
uk
/leɪt/
us
/leɪt/
(happening or being) near the end of a period ...
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adulthood
noun[U]
uk
/ˈæd.ʌlt.hʊd/
us
/ˈæd.ʌlt.hʊd/
the part of someone's life when they are ...
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(Definition oflateandadulthoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Marital relationships inlateadulthood: synchronised versus dissynchronised couples.
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The last stage of life ('lateadulthood') is perceived as a time of inwardness, reflection on the past, and closure.
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Our involvement with these children and their families often begins before birth and can extend intolateadulthood.
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Family medical practitioners, nurses, social workers, psychotherapists and relationship consultants who advise people inlateadulthoodmay well profit from reading this book.
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The main goal of the study was to investigate the relationship between equality in marital relations inlateadulthoodand the quality of marital life.
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Whilelateadulthoodis characterised by relatively low stress, research has revealed points of contention between spouses.
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Consistent with these findings, it can be assumed that marital quality is higher inlateadulthoodthan at other life stages.
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On the whole, the participants expressed stereotypical perceptions inlateadulthood.
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These questions were examined at three stages oflateadulthood: remote preretirement, near-retirement, and post-retirement.
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This explanation is reinforced inlateadulthood, when the children leave home and the wife becomes less dependent on her husband for help with childcare.
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As can be seen, the support system continues even into his father'slateadulthood, including and determining the future of the grandchildren.
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How important and central adult-child parent relationships remain inlateadulthood?
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A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of changes in brain morphology from infancy tolateadulthood.
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With respect to continuity in the three stages oflateadulthood, no change was found in any of the spousal resources examined.
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Decreased tuberculin reactivity inlateadulthoodis thought to be associated with altered functioning of the immune system associated with ageing.
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Toward understanding age-related memory loss inlateadulthood.
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Thus, earlier recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of early onset bipolar disorder may alter what otherwise carries a poor prognosis in adolescence and early andlateadulthood.
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It is therefore reasonable to expect that the period of retirement, which occurs inlateadulthood, will be characterised by a relatively high quality of marriage.
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It is unclear to what extent cortical reorganization inlateadulthooddirectly reflects senescent changes in structural and neurochemical integrity, or compensatory adaptations to such changes.
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For example, different problems arise in pre-egoic (early childhood), egoic (adolescent and conventional adult), or trans-egoic (transpersonal,lateadulthood) stages.
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