A Jungian perspective:
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I guess, older people regulate their emotions better. Judging by myself, if you don't have any excitement in life, you feel your life is more predictable and easier to handle? I know that people get wiser with age, so sorry for my previous comments.
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There are challenges the under 50 folks have to deal with that do not remain the same for older people. I believe, people have less stress after a certain age, when they don't have to make a career, raise kids and so on, but just focus on their own needs and desires. The differences are rather practical, not really character or life purpose changes. Wayne Dyer presents young people as almost immature at heart, and I don't understand him. There are quite impressive deeds committed by young people that are far away from the ego, from materialistic inspirations.
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I think, Carl Jung is talking exactly about reaching a level of maturity that is supposed to enrich our world view and makes us more content?
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There are challenges the under 50 folks have to deal with that do not remain the same for older people. I believe, people have less stress after a certain age, when they don't have to make a career, raise kids and so on, but just focus on their own needs and desires. The differences are rather practical, not really character or life purpose changes. Wayne Dyer presents young people as almost immature at heart, and I don't understand him. There are quite impressive deeds committed by young people that are far away from the ego, from materialistic inspirations.
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I think, Carl Jung is talking exactly about reaching a level of maturity that is supposed to enrich our world view and makes us more content?
It is ripe with overgeneralizations. But it reminds me when I was a teenager and didn't care too much about helping around the house. Of course, there are 40-year-olds who do the same when they visit family now.
Younger generations are lonelier and social media doesn't help, survey finds
Loneliness is on the rise and millennials and members of Generation Z are lonelier than older generations, according to a new survey. The Cigna 2020 Loneliness Index is based on a questionnaire answered by more than 10,400 people.
The health insurance company said Thursday 61% of the adults surveyed reported they feel lonely, which is a seven percentage-point increase compared to 2018. It found men are slightly lonelier than women. But the biggest difference may be between generations. Nearly 79% of Gen Z respondents and 71% of millennials reported feeling lonely, compared to just half of the baby boomers.
One major factor could be social media. The survey found instead of bringing people together, social media platforms have a "major impact" on loneliness and avid users were more likely to feel "alone, isolated, left out and without companionship."
Loneliness is also impacting the workplace, especially younger employees. For example, Gen Z respondents said they are twice as likely as boomers to feel "abandoned" by co-workers when they're under pressure, and the majority of Gen Z workers feel "emotionally distant" from colleagues.
Those feelings are impacting performance. Lonely workers said they're twice as likely to call out sick and five times as likely to miss work because of stress. Within the span of just one month, lonely workers said they think about quitting their job twice as often as their non-lonely co-workers.
But making friends with colleagues, sharing more in-person conversations instead of online messages, and creating an environment where workers feel they can share their goals, were all shown to make a difference.
“Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.”
-- Roberto Assagioli
-- Roberto Assagioli
“...what predicts fulfillment at the end of life?
..."Engagement," he said instantly. "Maintaining engagement with the world."
..."When we think about older people who are vital, it's often because they're still thinking and the world and the future. They're keeping up with current events. They're excited to tell you about the book they've read. They're thrilled about the way the garden is coming in this year. They're engaged."
Robert Waldinger with BBH”
― Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
..."Engagement," he said instantly. "Maintaining engagement with the world."
..."When we think about older people who are vital, it's often because they're still thinking and the world and the future. They're keeping up with current events. They're excited to tell you about the book they've read. They're thrilled about the way the garden is coming in this year. They're engaged."
Robert Waldinger with BBH”
― Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
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We have the potential to get happier (and more successful) as we get older. Here’s how
Social scientist Arthur C. Brooks says to be happy, you need to change the metaphor from a canvas you’re filling up to a block of marble that you’re chipping away.
www.fastcompany.com
After about age 70, there are two groups of people in the population—one group gets happier and happier as they age, and the other group gets less and less happy. It’s about 50/50 if you look at the data. Now, most people think that to be on the upper branch, to get happier as you get older, you have to be one of the successful people—the people who do a lot with their lives, who see a lot of worldly success—because then you can dine out on your success and be happy.
Well, it’s not true. The striver’s curse is that the people on the lower branch, the people who tend to get unhappier as they age, tend to be the ones who experienced a lot more success earlier in their lives. And it kind of makes sense—what goes up must come down...
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A huge exception to "older may mean happier" is self-neglect in the elderly (or other vulnerable populations):
www.dshs.wa.gov
Self Neglect | DSHS
Self-neglect is a general term used to describe a vulnerable adult living in a way that puts his or her health, safety, or well-being at risk. Self-neglect by vulnerable adults is a serious problem. It can be difficult to know when or if you should get involved. Law enforcement and social...
Tips for preventing self neglect as you age.
Isolation is common among all types of self-neglect. Avoiding spending too much time alone is very important.- Stay in touch with others. Become involved in senior center activities, church functions, or other groups in your community.
- Get to know your neighbors.
- Make sure another person or two is aware of your health status on a regular basis.
- Schedule and go to regular medical and dental appointments.
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Sizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults (Published 2022)
A new training tool helps to assess whether some seniors can make informed choices about their own care and well-being.
“Financial capacity is probably the first higher-order functional ability affected by neurodegenerative disorders and by normal aging,” he said. Using money proficiently requires complex thought, from “something basic like using an A.T.M. to things that are more complicated, like ‘How should I handle this call from a telemarketer?’” The consequences of diminishing financial capacity — unsafe living conditions, impoverishment, homelessness, institutionalization — can be devastating.
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"To stay healthy after retirement, experts advise people to schedule activities outside the house."
David Baxter PhD
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Getting older is fine, even if frustrating, if you can stay healthy. That's the key.
Do people become more selfless as they age?
Looking for something to binge-watch while you’re hunkering down at home? Consider checking out the popular TV show “The Good Place.” Over four recently concluded seasons, the ser…
www.chicagotribune.com
Older adults do not just act like they are nicer people...Rather, the fact that their reward areas are so much more responsive to experiencing people in need being helped suggests that they are actually, on average, kinder and genuinely more interested in the welfare of others than everyone else...
Most importantly, we don’t yet know why older adults appear to be more generous than younger folks. My colleagues and I are planning to look into whether realizing that you have fewer years to live makes you more concerned about the greater good.
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“Keep moving. Create routines (but sometimes break them). Be opportunistic. Be a mensch. Believe in something. Lighten up. Cultivate a sense of progress. Don’t do it if you don’t love it. Begin now.”
― Bruce Grierson, What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
― Bruce Grierson, What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model
The twenty-first century is witnessing an unparalleled historical increase in longevity worldwide and particularly in Western, industrialized countries (e.
academic.oup.com
A majority of older adults maintains high levels of functioning in their everyday lives. However, on average, aging remains related to declines in physical and mental health, with a sharp increase in the number of health-related problems in old and particularly in very old age (Barnett et al., 2012), and an increase in chronic multimorbidity (Koné Pefoyo et al., 2015).
Based on the biopsychosocial understanding of health, it is not necessarily the physical health alone that defines if people are healthy. Given that many older people are able to maintain a high level of everyday functioning despite illnesses, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a definition of “healthy aging” that takes the specific situation of older people into account, namely as “The process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age” (“World report on aging and health,” WHO, 2015, p. 28), where functional ability denotes the “attributes that enable people to be and to do what they have reason to value” (p. 28).
Thus, if we want to understand “healthy aging,” we need to understand what it is that people “have reason to value” into very old age, and how they can attain and maintain these valued aspects of their lives...
The challenge for healthy aging is to find this “sweet spot” where value and attainability intersect.
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Too poor to retire and too young to die
At the wise age of 79, Dolores Westfall knows food shopping on an empty stomach is a fool’s errand. On her way to the grocery store last May, she pulled into the Town & Country Family Restaurant to take the edge off her appetite.
graphics.latimes.com
Nearly one-third of U.S. heads of households ages 55 and older have no pension or retirement savings and a median annual income of about $19,000.
Predictors of depression among middle-aged and older men and women in Europe
April 29, 2022
Among 56 predictors, self-perceived social isolation and self-rated poor health were the most salient risk factors for depression in middle-aged and older men and women. Difficulties in instrumental activities of daily living (in men) and increased family burden (in women) appear to differentially influence depression risk across sexes.
April 29, 2022
Among 56 predictors, self-perceived social isolation and self-rated poor health were the most salient risk factors for depression in middle-aged and older men and women. Difficulties in instrumental activities of daily living (in men) and increased family burden (in women) appear to differentially influence depression risk across sexes.
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Similar to "social aging" in our society (in contrast to "Blue Zone" cultures that are more social across the lifespan):
www.discovermagazine.com
“We found that deer’s social networks shrink as they grow old and begin associating less with others. This ‘social aging’ appears to be driven by older individuals choosing to live in more isolated locations and engaging with fewer other deer within these sparser areas.”
Study Suggests Red Deer Become More Introverted With Age
Researchers say this new study can help us better understand why older animals become less social than younger ones.
www.discovermagazine.com
“We found that deer’s social networks shrink as they grow old and begin associating less with others. This ‘social aging’ appears to be driven by older individuals choosing to live in more isolated locations and engaging with fewer other deer within these sparser areas.”
Secret to Longer Life is Low-Tech - Blue Zones
Dan Buettner has traveled the world searching for the secrets to a longer life. What he's found isn't a silver bullet, a fountain of youth, or a magic pill.
www.bluezones.com
We won’t find the answer to our current health crisis in a test tube or a line of code. Instead, we need to go backward to move forward. We need to eat and live as our great-grandparents did.
“The world’s longest-lived people don’t pump iron, run marathons or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it. They grow gardens and don’t have mechanical conveniences for house and yard work.”
“The Okinawans call it “Ikigai” and the Nicoyans call it “plan de vida;” for both it translates to “why I wake up in the morning.” Knowing your sense of purpose is worth up to seven years of extra life expectancy.”
“Even people in the Blue Zones experience stress. Stress leads to chronic inflammation, associated with every major age-related disease. What the world’s longest-lived people have that we don’t are routines to shed that stress. Okinawans take a few moments each day to remember their ancestors, Adventists pray, Ikarians take a nap and Sardinians do happy hour.”
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