The Importance Of Communication In Lifespan Communication

Communication is a very interesting thing to study. One can learn how people do the things they do, and learn to understand how people communicate, as well as become a more efficient communicator themselves. This paper is about how communication changes over the life span. I chose this topic because it seems interesting how communication changes while people are growing and developing. This topic was also chosen due to the fact that I am working my way toward my doctorates in medicine in hopes of becoming a neurosurgeon, so I will need to know how the brain works at all different ages. Lifespan communication is a very important area of communication to study because it affects all levels of communication. At every age, people communicate every second of every day. Lifespan communication covers how we communicate from the time we take our first breath to the time we take our last breath. Throughout this paper, I will be focusing on lifespan communication in general, communication between siblings over the lifespan, and communication in interpersonal relationships over the lifespan.

They also find explanations for the way people communicate looking within the change. Studying communication over the lifespan brings up many questions, including “are friendships negotiated differently at different times across the life span because the very nature of friendships has changed with time?” and “How do younger individuals manage interpersonal conflict and how older individuals manage their interpersonal conflicts?” There has been no research conducted to specifically target change across time. In order for research to be conducted over communication throughout the lifespan, new sets of skills that are not yet aware to the communication community would have to be used (Life Span Communication and Quality of