Physical Development

• At 6 months a child can support their own weight of they are held upright
• At 10 months they are able to stand up with support
• Thier first birthday, they can walk whilst holding an adults hand
• At 18 months they can start to run
• At 2 years old they can kick a ball
  

• Children can begin to skip and jump
• Balancing begins to develop
• Fine motor skills progress - drawing and painting
• They become increasingly co-orindated in physical activities - playing games
• Growth in height and weight still increasing
• By 5 Children begin to control bowel and bladder problems

CHEPALO - CAUDAL DEVELOPMENT

• Girls show major changes associated with puberty between 10-13 and boys follow two years later on
• sex hormones is responsible for all the changes - growth in body hair genital organ and secondary sexual organ (uterus) and physical organs (intestines)

• People are at their peak of phyiscal fitness and fertility
• At the end they are much less physically active and much heavier
• Hair becomes thinner and recedes in males
• eye-sights for both sexes deteriorates, often long-sighted
• women still menstruate and still having babies in their forties
  

• Menopause can take 1-2 years to complete due to no more viable eggs however hormones are relaeased in higher quanities. it can lead to night sweats, hot flashes and less interest in sex
• further hair loss in males and long sightedness, reduced skin (elcsticity) difficulties with mobilites
• balance may nor be as good and sense of smell may decline
• In early and middle adulthodd there is no change in height (skeleton completely developed)
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• Skin becomes thinner and less elestic - wrinkles
  
• Bones becomes less dense more fractures
• Muscles become wearker therefore less power
• Joints become stiff and cause reduced movement and it is painful
• Height shrinks due to disc compression
• heart is less efficent in delivering blood
  
• BP rises with age
• Breathing is less efficent and muscles are weaker
• Balance is impaired
  

Weight starts to change and people may get fatter or thinner

Height Reduction