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Title: Aging: What to Expect Author: Mayo Clinic staff Date Published: Nov. 8, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This article get in depth about how age and past living life styles like smoking or bad eating habits can effect the body over time. The article covers different parts of the body and how age effect them. For example, the parts of the body the article covers is the cardiovascular system, bones, joints, and muscles. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article gave me a more in depth perception on how the choices we making in our middle adulthood can effect the life expectancy of our life. Credibility of Source: Mayo clinic is a trademark of Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

Title: Aging: What to Expect Author: None Date Published: November 8, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: It discussed almost every change to a man at age 50!! How This Influenced My Thinking: It informed me on many aging effects I had no idea about. Credibility of Source: Seems legit!

Title: Aging: What to Expect Author: None Date Published: November 8, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: It talked about what to expect as you get older and what to do about it. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me some ideas to what I can do as I get older so that my body stays healthy Credibility of Source: Good

*****POST 18 not 19***** Title: The Art of Aging Gracefully Author: Katherine Kam Date Published: June 12, 2007 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant because it talks about all of the changes women will be faced with as they age. It discusses the facts of what will be happening to the body as a women ages and how to deal with accepting the fact that changes are happening. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article discusses many aspects in ones life that can affect the way a women feels about herself at 50. It made a good point that if you have compulsive thoughts about aging you will start to drive yourself crazy - a thought that will make you feel like you are living to the tic-toc of the clock. Time isn't slipping away rather this is the time to be you and be happy. Credibility of Source: Web MD Website

Title: The Art of Aging Gracefully Author: Katherine Kam Date: 2013 Why Relevant : Talks about the aging stages and encouraging of women can overcome it and what they can do when they finally do accept it. How this influenced me: It helps me to look at my life because I fear turning 30! I can't imagine the types of things I may feel when I get to my 40's. But this helps me to boost up my confidence level and to really want to live life at that stage. Credibility: Not sure but like the info.

Title:Readiness to change: A longitudinal study of changes in adult identity Author:Kristine Anthis , Joseph C. LaVoie Date Published: 2008 Why Relevant: This is a research article from the journal of research in personality which is a great source to begin with in regards to personality theory. This research article is a great example of the scientific research method and a great example of a longitudinal study. Its focus is also relevant to my topic which is identity formation and more specifically measures adult's readiness to change and its influence on identity formation How this influenced my thinking: I found the age range of the participants 22-60 to be interesting. It shines a light on the fact that identity it always changing no matter what age and stage in life a person is. I also found it interesting that they came up with two ways to measure readiness to change and that they discovered this to be a player in identity formation during adulthood. Credibility:High