Title: The Wisdom of the Aged - A new Perspective of Elderly People
Headings: The Wisdom of the Aged
The Wisdom of the Aged
A Cultural Phenomenon
VIDEO: The Wisdom of the Aged
The Elderly Seen Across Cultures
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Content: Dr. Monika Ardelt, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Florida, have begun to study whether older really is wiser. In surveys of people in nursing homes and hospices, she found out that wisdom was positively related to their sense of well-being, even after the researchers controlled for factors like physical health, financial status and social engagement. The frailer or closer to death people became, the greater the role wisdom played in their feelings of well-being. Ancient Romans made use of their elderly and had faith in their wisdom and experience, quoting Cicero: “ For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. “ In African culture, there is less fear around aging, and the older generations usually live with the younger ones ( similar to Latins ) all under one roof as a big happy family. The transition to a positive, active and developmentally oriented view of aging may well result from action by elderly people themselves, through the sheer force of their growing numbers and influence. The collective conscious of being elderly, as a socially unifying concept, can in that way become a positive factor. Bibliography: The Wisdom of the Aged, by the NY Times
Life lessons to learn from the elders, by Listovative
Growing old in different countries, by Ted
Aging and Society, by Wikipedia
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