ISBN:
1602567263
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9781602567269
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9780195348682
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0195348680
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 206 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Challenges of the third age
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Older people Psychology
;
Older people Psychology
;
Meaning (Psychology)
;
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
;
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
;
Meaning (Psychology)
;
Older people Psychology
;
Quality of Life
;
Self Concept
;
Aging psychology
;
Aged
;
Goals
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging
;
Meaning (Psychology)
;
Older people ; Psychology
;
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
;
Zin (filosofie)
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Zelfverwerkelijking
;
Ouderen
;
Kwaliteit van het bestaan
;
Electronic Books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume addresses issues of the Third Age -- that time after retirement when financial stability and reduced obligations to others, together, allow for freedom -- and good health makes it possible to enjoy that freedom. This title aims to answer questions such as: how, in this special time of life, is meaning and purpose to be found?
Description / Table of Contents:
Holding onto meaning through the life cycle / Peter MarrisThe third age / Robert L. Rubinstein -- The changing meaning of aging / Harry R. Moody -- Social sources of meaning in later life / Richard A. Settersten, Jr. -- Aging, place, and meaning in the face of changing circumstances / Graham D. Rowles & Hege Ravdal -- Bringers of Allah : the Druse elders / David Gutmann -- Aging, intimate relationships, and life story among gay men / Bertram J. Cohler & Andrew J. Hostetler -- Looking for meaning in a life's experience / Robert Morris -- The search for meaning in the later years : the views of a seventy-four-year-old gerontological social worker / Rose Dobrof -- Epilogue : Concluding note on meaning and the possibility of productive aging / Robert S. Weiss & Scott A. Bass.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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