Life_Span

Life Span As I volunteered at a retirement home and hospital, I encountered many theories reviewed in class about late adulthood and old age. While speaking to the patients I learned that reminiscence is a factor that many older adults use when talking to people. They use life review elders call up, reflect on, and reconsider past experiences with the goal of achieving greater self understanding. When I watched various old age adults they use this form to serve their social needs and help themselves cope with their life transitions. Other old age adults that I observed were clearly involved in religious activities and made advances to connect to their spiritual self. In the book it states although organized religious participation declines, informal religious activities remain common in late adulthood. Religious involvement is especially high in the retirement home that I volunteered for, had low income and ethnic minority elders. Faith spirituality had advanced to a very high level; it was from a prescribed belief to a more reflective approach. Another patient was always isolating himself from social interactions with other elders around him. This is another theory that was stated in class. The disengagement theory states that interactions with others decline people, retirement, life, home, elders, elderly, states, others, old, activities, social, religious, book, age, adults, very, theory, themselves, self, help, experience, each, adulthood, work, while, volunteered, volunteer, versus, traits, time, support, society, psychological, personality, patients, organized