Ageing

Ageism

Demographics of ageing

Global aging

Aging in the Philippines – not covered

Process of Aging

Developmental task -concerned with learning and meeting developmental needs

- Addressing needs in relation to developmental changes

Middle age – maturity

-climacteric – critical point where changes happen

45 – 65 – middle age

55 -64 – “later” middle age

55 – 75 – young old

75 – older – old-old

Theoretical views

Erik erikson – a psychoanalyst

-neo-freudian (freud expansion)

-generativity (younger generation) selflessness

stagnation (self) – nothing to offer

-Global and non specific

Peck

Psychologist

Expanded eriksons dev middle age

4 patterns

1. Valuing wisdom vs valuing physical powers

Wisdom over physical strength
Self- actualization is lost due to loss of strength

2. Socializing vs sexualizing

Women – inability to produce offspring

Men – decrease sexual prowess

Sex > companionship – extramarital affairs

Sex<companionship

Sex objects < unique personalities

3. Cathectic flexibility vs cathetic impoverishment

Emotional attachment – ability to transfer to another

Impoverishment – having less of something – less emotional flexibility

Mental flexibility vs mental rigidity

Robert Havighurst

Focused on developmental tasks in western soc

1. Assisting teenage children in becoming healthy and responsible adults

2. Achieving civic and social responsibility
3. Reaching and maintaining satisfactory performance in one’s occupation
4. Developing adult leisure tine activities
5. Relating to ones spouse as a person