how we relate to the world. Middle-aged adults tend to direct their energy toward bringing their environment in line with their own wishes—they renovate and build houses, for example, and do other things to mold their world to their liking. Older adults typically focus on changing themselves to accord with their environment. To meet the challenges of aging, older individuals increasingly need to resort to strategies of adjusting expectations and activities in order to pursue more attainable goals when the kinds of activities that characterized their youth become more difficult to do.
