Ageing Gracefully

Affirmative mind set is essential for positive agers. Elderly who mature as they age develop qualities like insight, astuteness, common sense, shrewdness, wisdom and sagacity. Ageing does not necessarily ensure maturity. People who made the most contributions in their own development and the development of others have acquired capacities through maturation. Maturation in old age [...]

Generally elderly people raise a question-“how long will I live” ? The right question which one should raise is – “ if I am going to live such a long time, how can I be happy in the process “? The common worries of elderly are- “I am losing my health”, “ I am losing [...]

Self-centeredness or self-absorption in old age is a complex phenomenon. It is a maladaptive quality related to coping and subjective well being in the last phase of life. The person having self-absorption style of life fails to develop other focused qualities, (which are the signs of wisdom) in old age. Such persons have difficult time [...]

Worry is a mental pre-occupation. It is always not bad. Sometimes it works as a motivation or may help in making a potentially reasonable strategy to deal with stressful life situation. In other words, it helps an individual in the preparation for dealing with a future challenge or a threat. In this sense worry can [...]

The rapid ageing of the world population* has brought about visible changes in the familial, social and economic spheres of human life. The changes have affected areas like the intergenerational equilibrium of population, long term care, gender ageing, and socio-economic condition of elderly. As people live longer, specially the old-old and oldest old, have longer [...]