why is it so hard for middle age to old people find it har dto accept change and other people?

Answer 1

What is the change that we are finding hard to accept? Is it the lack of basic manners, the excessive use of foul language, the vandalism of property that we have worked hard to pay for?
Thing is, we have been younger, we actually DO know what it is like and we do know what we are talking about, so perhaps it's time to listen to what we have to say?
Here is a scary truth for you, we all acted out and rebelled when we were younger, we all thought our parents were wrong and knew nothing, and the most scary thing is that when we grew up we found out just how right they were!
But of course, I am middle aged, so what do I know about anything?

Answer 2

Turn it around.

Why is it that younger people want changes?

Why is a new method of playing music (for example) any better than the earlier way? What are the advantages and why are those advantages of importance?

One of the many likely answers is to do with a sense of 'stability,' and / or may have to do with 'change for the sake of change' and the 'Why' that comes with it.

A guy drives through my village with 500 watts of amps BELTING out nothing but 'Base.' Why? Why disturb my peace? Why should I have to be FORCED to put up with 'the changed and what HE WANTS.'

To hell with what it does to his body and ears, it's the self infliction he chooses. But, if it was MANDATORY by the Government - he'd be bleating on about His Freedom an 'Why the Need for Change!'

...i don't doubt.

Anyway. Maybe you'll find someone younger than you asking you the same question in the not far off future.

Let you into a secret; ''Time can really Fly by.''

Sash.

Answer 3

Many middle or older adults are resistant to change because they already have done so -- and they've made all the change they want to make. They've already made all the decisions to change from A to B to C to D... and with good reason. When they find no more reason to change things futher, they'd rather leave things be. It's just a matter of them having been on Earth twice or three times or four times longer than young people, the old chestnut: been there, done that!

Also many of the very old are no longer used to learning completely new things and find the prospect, er, over-challenging. For example, if they have a really old cooker in their kitchen which hardly works and is nearly dangerous, many times they'll keep it til it conks out -- not because they can't afford a new one, but because getting a new one means having to learn new buttons and knobs and what the symbols and options mean. They're more easily confused than younger adults, so it's a real bother for them to deal with change.

Answer 4

An interesting generalization but not really based in reality.

People who have been around for a number of years begin to learn what works and what doesn’t work. Although it doesn’t seem to be true to younger people, more mature people have already gone through the various phases and issues that young people go through now. Things that seem so critical to younger people are rarely that critical but they are phases that every generation passes through.

If we are going to generalize, it is the young who focus on some issue or perspective and won’t listen to others who are older and have already passed through whatever it is.

It is part of the learning experience for young people to believe that every issue is new with their generation and to reject the advice of those who are older. As the years go by and the young begin to mature, they will see what is said here as being true, but will never believe it until they get some age and life experience.

Not accept change? Consider, in my life I was born before there was penicillin, when plane engines were all piston driven, when Europe was mostly run by kings, before computers existed, when cell phones existed only in the watch radio on the wrist of the comic character Dick Tracy, when movies were black and white, when lawns were all mowed by push mowers our farm still used horses and hay was harvested loose and not in bales, when we had no running water or telephones in the house and mild was delivered to the home by horse drawn trail and cool by ice. Many things have changed during my life and yet I have accepted and used those changes as a normal part of my life.

I believe that you should reexamine the premise of your question.

Answer 5

Some older people are very resistant to change, and are scared of technology etc, others aren't. Both my nanas are 72, only 3 months between them. One nana can't drive, and is wary of using even a TV remote or landline phone, let alone a mobile or a computer. My other nana emails and texts me on a regular basis, keeps in touch with other friends and family by email...she rocks lol. She made an effort to learn how to use a computer because it makes her life easier, and she finds it interesting. My other nana doesn't understand why she'd need to do anything like that.

So not all older people are resistant to change, some are but some aren't

Answer 6

Well I am middle age and I accept change very easy... I get on well with any age, I do think that some ppl are more set in their ways regardless of the age, maybe that middle age person has been like that since young... BUT.. I would like to say that some middle age ppl have learnt certain things with experience through years.. and therefore prefer what they know from experience works for them... maybe forgetting that we all have to go through the process of learning.. and we all must learn from our own mistakes

Answer 7

Well as an older person I would say that in some kinds of change they know that that change would not be a good thing to have as they tried to make it when they were younger themselves. The other problem is that change takes them out of their comfort zone and into new unknown territory, this is a problem because they have worked hard to make their own lives comfortable. The problem comes when others try to force the changes on them.

Answer 8

Yes, we did rebel as well! At seventeen I was going to change the world, at twenty-seven, I found that the world had changed me.I do not agree that all middle aged and elderly people are that way, my neighbour is seventy-one and she wears jeans,has a computer and she can work the timer on her video/DVD player !She rides around on a motor bike (it is only a 175cc) but what the hell! She keeps up with the times.

Answer 9

I'm middle aged, I dont find change hard to accept, especially if the change is for the better

Answer 10

I had an excellent teacher when I was 11 who taught me that change is the natural state of life! So accepting change in not a function of age. It is a mindset!