Aldo
Age-ability --- a new age of old age
Posted on: 04/02/2014 16:44
Our culture of care for the aged is a culture of devaluating negativity towards aging. It undertakes to resist development of elderly people, framing life of the aged as progressive debilitation and deficiencies. Our prevailing attitude is that age is to be resisted by preventing it, treating it like a disease or dysfunction, or at least arresting its progression. The aged are defined by what they were but no longer are, rather than being defined positively by what they are. This is perverse and extremely destructive to personal well-being. It is a human violation of the aged and the old.
Simply put, developing into age requires that people and their care givers (as well as all of society) need to positively adapt to their real actual person and potentials --- that is living well within their functional abilities. I call this realistic and positive approach to development in old age: Age-ability. Age-ability calls for a new age of old age –- in which senior living is based on ‘age-able person formation’ parameters, goals, quality of life activities informing valuation of self-concept, identity and self-esteem.
Age-able normative elder development promotes realistic: cogn-abilities, percpt-abilities, sensat-abilities, emot-abilities, physic-abilities, behaviour-abilities, etc.
It is time to think in terms of and to create a culture of positive, valued and me
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Aldo
Posted on: 04/02/2014 16:51
missing ending...
It is time to think in terms of and to create a culture of positive, valued and meaningful aging.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 04/02/2014 17:39
HEAR HEAR!!!
mrs.anteater
Posted on: 04/02/2014 19:27
At what age do you consider someone old age?
Saul_now_Paul
Posted on: 04/02/2014 19:34
HEAR HEAR!!!
What was that, Sonny?
Aldo
Posted on: 04/02/2014 20:51
...not chronological
I would say we enter into old age when there are changes that affect our identity, self-concept and self esteem in capacity and functionality relating to activities of daily living (e.g. toileting, ambulating, feeding, grooming, orienting, speaking, etc., as well as in cognition and emotion regarding reality testing, inhibiting speech and behaviour, recall, etc.
It is a time to develop anew and to adapt as we have never had to adapt since the first years of infancy and childhood.
Jim Kenney
Posted on: 04/13/2014 22:37
Old age, I beleive, is when we lose a significant amount of endurance, strength, agility, and general mobility. On the emotional side, it is when we lose interest in learning and having new experiences.
Aldo
Posted on: 04/13/2014 23:45
Old age, I beleive, is when we lose a significant amount of endurance, strength, agility, and general mobility. On the emotional side, it is when we lose interest in learning and having new experiences.
why not when these things "change"? Its only a loss if these are connected to what was...
If we change, we should adapt... not to a 'loss' but to the potential we have
If I naturally expect the change, is it a loss?
I think interests and what we seek to experience also changed
... are the losses quantitative or qualitative?
at 25 ....so much endurance, at 50 ....so much endurance, at 85 ...so much edurance.... at each age the right amount.... so at 85 is it a loss? I meet this person of 85 and see his endurance, but have nothing to compare it to... If I take him as he is, I will see no loss and relate accordingly
If we take ourselves as we presently are, and if others do as well... will we be old? or will we just be?
stardust
Posted on: 04/18/2014 22:15
Hi Aldo
Your Quote:
"If we take ourselves as we presently are, and if others do as well... will we be old? or will we just be?"
well said ......
mrs.anteater
Posted on: 04/25/2014 06:19
...not chronological
I would say we enter into old age when there are changes that affect our identity, self-concept and self esteem in capacity and functionality relating to activities of daily living (e.g. toileting, ambulating, feeding, grooming, orienting, speaking, etc., as well as in cognition and emotion regarding reality testing, inhibiting speech and behaviour, recall, etc.
It is a time to develop anew and to adapt as we have never had to adapt since the first years of infancy and childhood.
This would also apply to disability, which can occur at any age. Just the recovery is getting so much more difficult with age.
Aldo
Posted on: 04/25/2014 20:46
...not chronological
I would say we enter into old age when there are changes that affect our identity, self-concept and self esteem in capacity and functionality relating to activities of daily living (e.g. toileting, ambulating, feeding, grooming, orienting, speaking, etc., as well as in cognition and emotion regarding reality testing, inhibiting speech and behaviour, recall, etc.
It is a time to develop anew and to adapt as we have never had to adapt since the first years of infancy and childhood.
This would also apply to disability, which can occur at any age. Just the recovery is getting so much more difficult with age.
you make a very good point....
disability is followed by restoration and rehab, or by adaptation and development...
with aged seniors our culture and all its systems pursue the former rather than the latter... regardless of the irreversibilty of the changes...
...indeed, 60 years ago we were doing to the disabled what we do to aged seniors today.... time for a new age of old age....yes?