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Maturity & Aging Definitions
What is Maturity and Aging?
- Maturity and Aging: Transitioning through life.
- Maturity: This is a period where one learns from mistakes, gains experience and wisdom from life, grows inwardly, and sees life in a broader context.
- Aging: A particular period of life when a person becomes naturally or socially qualified or disqualified for anything.
What are the four essentials of good health?
- Social Well-being: Personal health depends partially on the social structure of one’s life. These relationships are linked to good health conditions, longevity, productivity, and a positive attitude.
- Physical Well-being: This refers to body health which is the result of regular exercise, proper diet and nutrition, and adequate rest for physical recovery.
- Mental and Emotional Well-being: Mental and emotional well-being is defined as an individual’s ability to appreciate life and seek a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.
- Spiritual Well-being: A sense of peace and contentment.
Baby-boomers
- Many baby-boomers grew up in divorced families.
- They are the first generation raised on television.
- Baby-boomers grew up in the turbulent sixties and early seventies. Hence they have concerns for world peace, world unity, and the environment.
- They typically abhor discrimination of any kind.
- Having relationships with other people, enjoying life, and having a full set of experiences are important to boomers.
- It is the “if it feels good, do it” and “tell it like it is” generation.
- They are practical, not theoretical.
- Boomers are a prosperous generation that is incredibly mobile.
- It is a more casual, less formal generation.
- Baby-boomers are obsessed with health.
- They are very individualistic.
- In general, they are suspicious of institutional authority.
The above bullets were just highlights of the information available at The Network of Strategic Missions. Let us apologize to our non-Christian readers who will go to this site. The boomer information was written for use by churches, but if you do go to this site, there is much you can learn about boomers and yourself!
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