Why is the life-cycle approach used in work?

Correct answer: To understand learning income care and role needs across life stages

The direct answer is option B: understanding learning, income, care and role needs across life stages. The life-cycle approach studies how a person’s needs, responsibilities, abilities and opportunities may change from childhood and youth to adulthood, later adulthood and old age. In work and career planning, a student may need education, an adult may need income and skill development, a parent may need care and work balance, and an older person may need security or retirement planning. Option A is too narrow because retirement is only one stage. Option B is correct because it considers learning, earning, care and roles across the whole life. Option C is wrong because skills can be developed through education and experience; they are not simply inborn. Option D is wrong because people of different ages do not have identical needs. Memory cue: life cycle means changing needs, not one need for every age.