An active old age

Planning for the elderly

There are signs of a change in that attitude towards the elderly. Even without thinking about slowing the aging rate, so that it takes, for example, 70 years to reach the equivalent of 60, society begins to accept two successive lifestyles, with an educational recycling towards middle age and old age, as well as the recognition of "senior citizens" as a political force.
Many people of both sexes already suffer an identity crisis very similar to a second adolescence at 45-50 years, in which they evaluate their goals and achievements. This is because they expect to reach 70 or 80 years of age. Our ancestors dreamed of rejuvenation, but rarely lived beyond 70 years.
With old age the incidence of diseases increases, which can impair the capacity and effectiveness of learning. Planning that seeks to meet the needs of the elderly should accommodate both those who have sufficient strength to keep fully occupied, and the smaller, but growing proportion of those who are unable to do so and need medical and social help.
Psychological problems
Perhaps the most arduous psychological problems facing the elderly are isolation and the need for adaptation. In addition to its physical impairment and the limited social representation reserved for the elderly, it has to face the loss of the familiar (career, standard of living, physical and personal environment). It is already quite depressing to find in the obituaries another friend who left; but often the elderly do not recover from the death of the spouse. That is why the ability to accept these changes is so important.