Which of the following statements best describes the tasks of late adulthood?
A)Older adults must quickly try to resolve the conflicts of earlier times.
B)Older adults must accept that they cannot change the past and make peace with their lives.
C)Older adults generally feel great sadness and worry about death;this allows them to accept their mortality.
D)Older adults must never feel satisfied with their lives because it gives them goals to achieve in the future.

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This period relates to Erikson's last stage,with its key polarity of integrity versus despair.A successful resolution to this final conflict occurs when the adult accepts "one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be and that,by necessity,permitted of no substitutions" (1963).The adult feels content with his or her one life on earth,satisfied that if it were possible to do it over again,he or she would live it the same way.

Which of the Following Statements Best Describes the Tasks of Late