Biological Age: The Four Types Of Aging

Age to me is just a number, there are other factors that contributed to how old you may actually feel. In our text Hillier and Barrow talk about four different types of aging, which include chronological aging, biological aging, psychological aging, and social aging each of which look at age differently (2015, pg. 2-3). When looking at chronological age my age would not change from what I am now, since it the number of years since birth (Hillier & Barrow, 2015). Chronologically I feel 30, but am not that young anymore, but as a said prior age is just a number that is assigned to you based on your date of birth. Biological age is the changes reducing the efficiency of organ systems, which at this time my organs are all healthy and my body physically is probably 10-15 years younger than my actual age (Hillier & Barrow, …show more content…
Biological age is not something that I feel will impact me negatively and will as long as continue to take care of my body be a positive impact on me. Psychological age deals with memory, learning, adaptive capacity, personality and mental functioning, my psychological age I feel is actually older than my actual age (Hillier & Barrow, 2015). Psychologically I am more advanced in my learning and have a higher adaptive capacity, my personality is one of a person who is older and more serious. This makes me feel like I am actually older than I am due to having to mature quickly when I was younger to deal with things that were happening in my life. Social age has to do with social roles, relationships, and the overall social context in which we grow old (Hillier & Barrow, 2015). My social age is higher than my actually age, I am not one that goes out very much and normally due to all the activities that children are involved in spend more time with the children than I do with people my own age. Socially I feel that I am in the late 50’s or 60’s and become more of a home body unless it has to deal with something that the kids