Editing Middle age (section)

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This time span is generally referred to as "middle age" and can be defined as the time of ages about 40–45 to about 60–65.<ref name="Oxford Dicionary">{{cite web|title=Middle Age: definition of middle age in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/middle-age|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014211143/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/middle-age|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2014|access-date=2016-06-15|website=Oxforddictionaries.com}}</ref><ref name="Merriam Webster">{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle+age|title=Definition of MIDDLE AGE|website=www.merriam-webster.com|access-date=2022-10-04|archive-date=2016-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027234813/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle+age|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/middle-age Middle age] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712041706/http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/middle-age|date=2017-07-12}}. CollinsDictionary.com. ''Collins English Dictionary'' – Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved December 05, 2012.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dictionary.apa.org/|title=APA Dictionary of Psychology|website=dictionary.apa.org|access-date=2022-10-04|archive-date=2018-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427011428/https://dictionary.apa.org/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/middle-age|title=middle age &#124; psychology &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|access-date=2022-10-04|archive-date=2022-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004025602/https://www.britannica.com/science/middle-age|url-status=live}}</ref> Many changes may occur between young adulthood and this stage.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMsXWRjHRfwC&q=cognitive%20decline%20may%20occur%20with%20age|title=The Aging Auditory System|author-link1=Sandra Gordon-Salant|first1=Sandra|last1=Gordon-Salant|first2=Robert D.|last2=Frisina|first3=Richard R.|last3=Fay|first4=Arthur|last4=Popper|date=3 May 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|via=Google Books|isbn=9781441909947|access-date=1 November 2020|archive-date=19 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319100711/https://books.google.com/books?id=oMsXWRjHRfwC&q=cognitive%20decline%20may%20occur%20with%20age|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | pmc=7347230 | year=2020 | last1=Infurna | first1=F. J. | last2=Gerstorf | first2=D. | last3=Lachman | first3=M. E. | title=Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and Challenges | journal=The American Psychologist | volume=75 | issue=4 | pages=470–485 | doi=10.1037/amp0000591 | pmid=32378943 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | pmc=4734389 | year=2015 | last1=Lachman | first1=M. E. | title=Mind the Gap in the Middle: A Call to Study Midlife | journal=Research in Human Development | volume=12 | issue=3–4 | pages=327–334 | doi=10.1080/15427609.2015.1068048 | pmid=26848288 }}</ref> There is no universal consensus on what the exact definition of middle age is, but usual characteristics include the beginning of rapid decline of fertility, graying of hair, and other physical changes.

Those in middle age continue to develop relationships and adapt to changes in relationships. Such changes are highly evident in the maturing relationships between growing or grown children and aging parents. Community involvement is fairly typical of this stage of adulthood,<ref name="Stern-2016">{{cite book | last = Stern | first = Theodore | title = Massachusetts General Hospital comprehensive clinical psychiatry | publisher = Elsevier | location = London | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-0-323-29507-9 }}</ref> as is continued career development.