Course Perspective Takes accounts of the diversity of role and role changes across the life span and a life long and highly dynamic process.
Development is multidirectional.
Heterogeneity of life trajectories and transitions among older individuals. Attempts to explain how ageing is related to and shaped by social contexts, history, cultural meanings and location in the social structure, and how time, period and cohort shape the ageing process for individuals and social groups. It is a multidisciplinary view of human development that focuses on changes with age and life experiences.