Safety across the lifespan

Safety across the lifespan

1. Newborn

   • psychosocial
     • strong bond with 1' caregiver
   • health risks
     • hyperbilirubinemia
       • unable to balance destruction of rbc

2. infant (1m to 1yr)

   • cognitive
     • visual acuity
     • hand eye coordination
     • lang starts to dev
   • psychosocial
     • understand they are separate beings
   • health risks
     • sudden infant death syndrome
     • accidental injury
       • major cause of death
       • be careful of toys and blankets
     • Child maltreatment

3. preschooler 3-6 yrs

   • psychosocial
     • energy , guilt , sex role identification
   • cognitive
     • limited attention span
     • animism
       • feelings to inanimate objects
     • immanent justice
       • punishment & reward

4. toddler 1-2 yrs

   • psychosocial
     • strive for independence
   • health risks
     • curios & wander around

5. school aged child 6 to 11 yrs

   • cognitive
     • logic dev
     • less egocentric
   • psychosocial
     • view other sex as gross
     • dev feelings of failure/unworthiness
   • health risks
     • motor & recreational accidents

6. Adolescent 12 to 19 yrs

   • cognitive
     • highest lvl of intellectual dev
     • think they're invincible
   • psychosocial
     • building own ethical system based on own values
   • health risk
     • drugs & sti

7. young adulthood 20 to 40 yrs

   • psychosocial changes
     • fulfilling and intimate sexual relationship
   • health risks
     • lifestyle habits (drink, smoke, suicide)

8. middle adulthood 40 to 65 yrs

   • psychosocial
     • child moving out
     • examine life goals
   • health risks
     • obesity

9. older adulthood 65+

   • prebycusis
     • decrease abiliity to to hear high pitched sounds
   • dowager's hump
     • spine decrease bc osteoporosis
   • dementia
   • delirium
     • confusion
   • retirement
   • cancer, and arthritis