Can soemone please explain to me the psychological aspects of ageing?

Question

What are they and please point out some things!

if u have any useful sites please list them also thanks. 10 points 4 the best answer after 4 hours.

Answer 1

the main psychological aspect is the loss of ability when your body starts to malfunction.
The inability to bend or reach down for shoe tying or just to pick something up is frustrating.
Looking in a mirror and seeing the person looking back is not the image you have or yourself in the mirror is also another negative aspect.
The loss of friends because they seem to die around you, leaving you to count down the people you know.... is another.
Losing memory is another frustrating aspect.
For couples the loss of a partner proves normally too much for the other partner to cope with and often psychologically they shut down. Not wanting to live without the other.
The rate of progress in the world is something difficult to stay in step with and often leaves older people feeling confused.

On a positive side aging can bring confidence and clarity because of life experience. The ability to look back and draw from the expereinces to advise others and compare problems you may newly encounter and deal with them with confidence.
You usually have done all the things you needed to or wanted to do so feel more contented.

Answer 2

I think that this depends on the person. Some people adjust more than others. Also ageing creeps up on you without warning and it is a gradual process that you dont realise until something brings it to your attention,like seeming to become invisible to shopkeepers, being called "dear" and talked down to, noticing another part of your body has gone south , and after retirement, feeling that you are not contributing to society like you once did. Looking back on your life, things seem to have gone by so quickly and your children have children of their own and you cant see how that happened! Seeing old TV programmes that seem like only yesterday and people in them are now dead, really brings home your own mortality.It can get very depressing coupled with failing health and faculties and the side-lineing by society and accent on youth by the media. I hope this helps with your question

Answer 3

Look up geriatric psychology on a search engine.

As you grow older, your brain may shrink, you may lose neurons through traumatic events, hardening of the blood vessels in brain, strokes, all take their toll. These events affect memory, make learning new ideas difficult. This is a very complex subject and many answers are individual. It depends on what factors affect the individuals body, such as arterial disease, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease. Try to determine specifics.
Also, if specific symptoms have been seen you can give more specific possibilities.
In the end, I have to say I find your question to broad for me to be helpful, but I sense you have a specific need to know since you put a time limit on it.

Answer 4

In various ages we learn differently, our egos have a large part in this. in youth we go thru the process of wanting to age faster than we are, we are sure we have all the answers, and refuse to listen to the older generation finding them outdated and slow...we are consumed by self wanting without regards to what it costs or who it effects...as we reach our middle age, after many life lessons have taught us different things, we understand more of the aspects of why things happen and we are aware we dont know all the answers but are willing to learn...we watch the youth which shows us how naieve we were and we start to listen to the older generation seeing them in a whole new light..our bodies are changing and we start to realize that we are far more fragile than we first thought...our children are ready to go off on their own and we face a new hollowness that leaves you wanting..but a heart full of knowing you did it...we start to value the relationships more than the objects that fill our daily lives...as we age even more and get closer to our time to leave the earth, we find our bodies leave no room for ego, they become frail and we have to accept that we are not what we were before, we find our regrets are the things we didnt do more than the things we did do..we get the chance to look back on our vastness of wrong decisions and mistakes as well as our cherished moments and loves, and we are thankful for all of them, we somehow feel the need to pass on the wisdom and realize that it is the realationship that matters and nothing more....so we try to approach our young ones...and teach...and love to share our life stories...I have found that the tougher the life, the softer the heart underneath...some revert back to youth, because througout all the stages of your life you hold within you your own child, adolecent, adult, and elderly....and to the few who do not believe in the concepts of aging.....(you find old people who have the vibrancy of a 18 year old..as well as an 18 year old that is filled with age and old)....they dont give age a place in their life because they know in their hearts that in reality that age is an attitude...mind over matter..you dont mind...it doesnt matter! hope it helps.

Answer 5

As you age you tend to react slower....not from age..but from a more mature thought process...you ,based on experience, know what aspects of life are the most important and discard the things that younger people think are important...like the color of a car for instance..its a question of taste...but of no importance to the performance of the vehicle..
The negative aspects: you're closer to death and you have a battle with fear of the unknown and acceptance...even with the above mentioned mature reasoning ability...our own mortality is of paramount concern.
Thats a couple of examples for you.

Answer 6

Most of the psychological aspects of aging are neurological and inherited in nature, and there is not a lot you can do about it except maybe try to improve you diet, exercise, maybe take some helpful prescriptions, and try to reduce the amount of stress and anxiety in your life.
The aging tend to struggle more with memory loss, remorse, depression, thoughts of suicide, helplessness, hopelessness, and stress and anxiety than do younger individuals. Not to mention the real physical challenges that are faced with age. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Strange question Pwincezz a. From your name I would guess you are ? Not much to be said about psychological aging, same as physical. Starts out up North and functional and then slides South and out of your...?

Answer 8

As you start to get older, if you are a decent person you realise that certain things like fashion, materialism and money do not matter.

Decency, being kind and **** the government is all that matters!

Answer 9

you pretty much build yourself up through stages, and eventually choose one or the other

from birth to one year you choose from trust vs. mistrust
1-3 yrs- Autonomy vs shame and doubt
3-6 yrs- Initiative vs guilt
6 yrs-puberty - Industry vs inferiority
Adolesence- Identity vs role confusion
Young adulthood- intimacy vs isolation
Middle adulthood- Generativity vs stagnation
Late Adulthood- Ego Integrity vs despair...

not sure if this is right on subject but hope it helps.

Answer 10

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