Challenges of the Third Age : Meaning and Purpose in Later Life.

Challenges of the Third Age : Meaning and Purpose in Later Life.

The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead, men and women have the freedom, and the need,...

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Main Author: Weiss, Robert S.
Other Authors: Bass, Scott A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Meaning (Psychology)
Older people > Psychology.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.
Older people > Psychology
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Introduction; 1 Holding onto Meaning through the Life Cycle; 2 The Third Age; 3 The Changing Meaning of Aging; 4 Social Sources of Meaning in Later Life; 5 Aging, Place, and Meaning in the Face of Changing Circumstances; 6 Bringers of Allah: The Druse Elders; 7 Aging, Intimate Relationships, and Life Story among Gay Men; 8 Looking for Meaning in a Life's Experience; 9 The Search for Meaning in the Later Years: The Views of a Seventy-Four-Year-Old Gerontological Social Worker; Epilogue: Concluding Note on Meaning and the Possibility of Productive Aging; Index; A; B; C.
  • De; f; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; y.

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