Successful Aging At Mid-Life: Article Analysis

This week’s article, “Planning for "Successful Aging" at Mid-life” by Kathryn Betts Adams Ph.D., M.S.W., discusses a topic that everyone begins to realize is fast-approaching, yet the majority try to put it out of their minds. And they can hardly be blamed for doing so. The idea of aging is one that no one is ready to face considering how short our time on Earth seems to be with each passing day. Most of us would rather worry about it later, preferring to spend the time remaining doing all that we have planned for our lives. Not only do Kathryn Betts Adam combat this by openly discussing the issue we have all been avoiding, but she gives great advice to make this process a bit easier for all of us to deal with. One aspect of the article that

It may not seem like much, especially to someone who is still has a considerable amount of time before any of these problems begin to concern me. However, I believe that it is important to know about the issues of middle adulthood in advance so that one can better prepare themselves for it. After all, some of us have a great amount of time in order to do so. The choices that we make now can before particularly important to us years down the line. What seems unimportant at one point in time, such as drinking alcohol every once and awhile, can snowball in the years to come and eventually have a greater impact on our future selves. I’ve lived vicariously through this who are significantly older than I am, and would like to learn from the mistakes that they made. This entails taking better care of my health now before it becomes a problem that I will regret later on. The article also mentioned forming healthy relationships that can actually help us take care of ourselves even as take care of them. That’s not usually something I take into consideration when I form relationships with people and sometimes I find myself thinking that I’ve made a mistake when I forgive people who clearly don’t have my best interest at heart. Overall, this correlates with my belief that successful living means having the least amount of regrets