Experience Of Old Age Research Articles

Aged Erikson: The completion of the life cycle

The life cycle has been the subject of systematic research for just a few decades so it is perhaps only now that we can expect theoretical contributions reflecting the experience of old age among theorists themselves. A unique statement of this kind, Erik H. Erikson's The Life Cycle Completed (1982), is considered in context of his other recent work in order to demonstrate theoretical, rhetorical and philosophical elements. The aged Erikson is an example of the need to account for the “person in the paradigm” in aging research in the humanities and social sciences.

Vital involvement in old age: The experience of old age in our time

Vital involvement in old age: The experience of old age in our time

Vital Involvement in Old Age: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time

Vital Involvement in Old Age: The Experience of Old Age in Our Time

Professional Helpers and Resistances to Work with Older People

ABSTRACTResistances to empathy with older service users are outlined, drawn primarily from Jungian psychology. It is suggested that lack of a helper's personal experience of old age allows disproportionate influence to be played by archetypal intrapsychic processes. These are augmented by helpers perceptions of a negative personal future and a tendency either to ignore the age appropriate projects of older persons or replace them with those appropriate for the helper. Consequences for helper training are briefly explored.

To flame with a wild life: FLorida Scott-Maxwell's experience of old age.

To flame with a wild life: FLorida Scott-Maxwell's experience of old age.

The Experience of Old Age

The Experience of Old Age

OLDER WOMEN: HOUSING ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES

AbstractThis article examines the housing circumstances of 70 women over sixty living independently in Sydney, Canberra and Queanbeyan. The four major housing alternatives for older women — home ownership, public rental, private rental and retirement villages —were explored from the women's point of view. Although in line with other studies private rental was revealed as the worst housing option for the aged, important issues were raised concerning problems in the other three sectors. Particular emphasis in the article is placed on the impact of women's social and economic status on their housing experiences in old age.

The Experience of Old Age

Journal Article The Experience of Old Age Get access The Experience of Old Age, by M. A. Lieberman & S. S. Tobin. Basic Books, New York, 1983, 439 pp., $27.50 (hardcover). Journal of Gerontology, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 1985, Pages 118–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/40.1.118a Published: 01 January 1985

The Elderly in Classical Antiquity

ABSTRACTFor evidence about the extent and experience of old age in classical antiquity, one must rely excessively on literature and mythology, with their heavy bias towards the leisured classes and their lack of quantitative data. Nevertheless, there are bases for some plausible inferences: both life expectancy and for most people the standard of living were low, with a consequence of an early commencement of ‘adult’ employment and the absence of any notion (or possibility) of retirement; those hardy and lucky enough to survive of ten appear to have retained a vigorous creativity into very old age; emotional relations (e.g. between parents and children) were coloured by such factors as high infant mortality and the relative early death of parents and grandparents. The absence of really large cities, other than Rome and one or two others, and of rural isolation (the homestead farm, for example) reduced the dangers of the kind of loneliness associated with the modern bed-sitter, though problems of old age fell solely on the family (rather than the community). Medical literature showed a surprising lack of interest in mental illness associated with old age or even in medical problems other than the obvious ones of debility, and there is no way for us to penetrate the silence.

The use of a board game to simulate the experiences of old age.

The use of a board game to simulate the experiences of old age.

The experience of old age as depicted in contemporary novels: a supplementary bibliography.

The experience of old age as depicted in contemporary novels: a supplementary bibliography.

The Experience of Old Age as Depicted in Contemporary Novels

The Experience of Old Age as Depicted in Contemporary Novels