THOUGHTS ABOUT ADLERIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND OLD AGE

Abstract

Old age is not the last, short phase of our life: the progress of medicine, the improvement of hygienic, food and work conditions, a different attention and responsability to take care of ourselves, consent to live in a best way and longer than in the past. During the last thirty years, the self-image of old people and of old age are changed: from the passive resignation we live in the awareness that the old age is not a discomfortable condition but it is possible to live in a dignified way. The Individual Psychology can answer the different problems of old people: from new spurs for unhappy retired people, to the positive memories of their experiences, from the maintenance of the dignity in illness to the aid for assistants