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Measuring age-related psychological change is an exceptionally difficult and challenging task for even highly skilled professionals. The reasons for this are vast, but there is a general consensus of issues running commonly throughout selected articles in which will be discussed. Common threads of concern in measuring psychological change are firstly defining what age is and how best it is measured to determine differences.
Age can be described as one of the most primary social and cultural categories that are universal. (Settersten 1997) Ageing, in humans refers to a process of physical, psychological and social change. It is however an ambigous notion is as it has such a variance in its definition and structuring. What is considered a norm is highly debateable when defining age. Cohorts, cultural differences, values, behaviours even health all present a problem when measuring normalities of aging. Age is essentially an empty variable. How can a scientific measurements be applied......

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