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Table of ContentsHow might representations and experiences of old age differ across culture and history, and whatare the challenges we face in an ageing society?.............................................................................1REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8.........................................................................................................................................................8
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How might representations and experiences of old age differ across cultureand history, and what are the challenges we face in an ageing society?Old age is the phase of human life cycle which is experienced by every individual withthe passing life course. It is basically a part of life which starts after crossing young and middleage group. This phase has different names in separate context and location like across worldpeople comes in this phase are called as elderly and old age people, whereas, Americans andBritish often usages names seniors and senior citizens for specified life phase of individual. It hasbeen name of this age group also varies according to different culture from which people belongs(Aasbø and et. al., 2016). Old age people owns lots of skills and knowledge which have beengained by them from throughout life experience. These experiences have developed their abilityto take right decision in different situations which occurs in day to day life time. As a result,people belongs to this phase can become a teacher for youngsters or upcoming generation whichwill help them to become successful in life and deal with different situations of life withprovided guidance.The concept of ageing comes with the thought of combination of psychological, socialmechanism and biological components which realises an individual that they have reached toage where they are not able to execute or perform their own work effectively. It can be said thatold age of an individual, their experiences, behaving pattern, representation etc. differs on thebasis of different culture from which they belongs too. The culture of an individual also includestheir upbringing, religion, caste, friend circle, family norms and many other factors which goesthrough whole upbringing process of an individual. It has been observed that this upbringingstage directly influences behaving pattern of individual in old age phase of life. For example: Ifan individual is grown in the traditional family where each and every norm related to religionare followed and is also mandatory for the person too to follow, then this person will always giveentire attention to cultural norms which have been learned by him throughout the life growingprocedure (Barrett and Montepare, 2015). It will also influence thinking process, decisionmaking, behaving, self representation and many other things of a person at the stage when theyare getting older. Along with this, these kind of individual will also expect and force their futuregenerations too, to follow similar traditional norms in their entire life span. On the other hand, ifupbringing of an individual has been done in open family environment and society, then at the1
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