Psychology of Aging

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the pall that psychiatric disorders can place over elderly people. It also looks at elderly people's physical abilities with psycho-social determinant. The paper then focuses on the implications for models of "SOC" (selection, optimization and compensation) - in discussions of geriatric patients and what is meant by a normal or 'rational' patient.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Transforming Discovery
'Quality of Life'
What is 'Well-Being'?
Concluding Remarks

From the Paper:

"Papers referred to in this paper manifesting an SOC approach can be recommended as one means of addressing psychosocial adjustments of old age, but as argued, one becomes aware of how much is ignored in such studies that pertains to the nature of geriatric experience and notably, the likelihood of mental health impairments that may be the most important variables in all adjustment and adaptation. Old age has been approached incorrectly , it is realized, in past assumptions to do with geriatric impairment and decline that do not match with reality, just as indications of impairment and decline have been misdiagnosed towards many missed opportunities to completely realign a patient's experience of old age. Psychologists may or may not have substantial roles to play in improving awareness of depression or sleep disorders as conditions to transform the patient, very often the patient's entire life situation, and with treatment not provided that could produce an entirely new fundamental situation."

Sample of Sources Used:

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