This is when the individual has finally reached physical maturity, but there physical decline starts to quite early, although its very gradually going down and hard to notice, you will reach your full height by the time you are in you 20's, you may notice that your skin become less elasticised and you start to get wrinkle and you will start to develop grey hairs. An important physical change for a women towards the end of this life stage is the menopause a process in which the women stop menstruating, this happens usually around the ages of 45-55 they can no longer have children.
SOCIAL NEEDS
When young adults start to develop new relationships they may have a partner or get married and have there own family all this is accepting responsibility and sharing relationships with parents. Many adults have other hobbies such as a career and may find it difficult to socialise with others. starting a job involves developing working relationships formal relationship were you haven to follow rules and informal relationship were your friends and all. It is important to produce needs to be sociable like going out with friends etc.
INTELLECTUAL NEEDS
intellectual development continues through adulthood as each person will want to pursue a carer, and getting a job involves learning new skills, many of the simple skills such as leaving home and living on your own independently such as cooking, cleaning, ironing, washing. but as in late adult hood people will find things more difficult to maintain their intellect they will find it harder to remember things or were they were etc.
emotional needs
In this life stage emotionally adults are accepted to be able to control there emotions better, but also they are able to relieve there emotions as well. When an adult leaves home they are self dependant and able to cope better with this. But sometimes having children can be very dependent and can cause a lot of stress on a person. Also at this life stage they are now having jobs and many jobs can be very stressful and sometimes adults find it particularly hard to express there emotions