When it comes to aging, you are what you think. How influential is a persons mindset in regards to how well or how poorly a person ages. Across cultures there are varying believes and values associated with aging and functionality. Inevitably people grow older, and eventually die. Life however does not end at age 65 like many believe, but can thrive if given the chance. In order to do so, society and individuals need to change the way it views aging and older adults. .
Culturally speaking, America adheres to a dismal view of aging. This attitude is reflected very clearly in society through the media, employment, and health care of older adults. American society is bombarded daily with magazine and television ads depicting older adults in a negative, declining state of existence. There are products claiming to reduce wrinkles and retain youthfulness painting aging as undesirable. Ads target the negative aspects of aging and give nothing back to the other more important aspects of developing beyond middle adulthood, such as wisdom and experience. Employability for older adults also declines and a person's value is no longer is based on experience and ability but on age. Older adults in America face stereo types and misconceptions of aging. Here are a few; increasing age brings about greater psychological distress, older adults are more depressed than younger adults, as individuals reach old age, they become preoccupied with memories of their childhood and youth, older adults are less satisfied with their lives than younger adults, older adults are alienated from the members of their families and community, increasing age brings about a decline in sexual desire and interest; older adults are not physically capable of engaging in sexual intercourse; and intelligence declines with age (Denmark, internet). .
Other cultures take a different approach to aging and the value of their older adults within society.
Do you pray even when you don't think that you are getting an answer? ... The person will say "I do" State your name, my name is "I think" I think Jesus is faithful, I think he's a good man; I think he died on the cross. ... I"m not going to tell you what I heard. I"m not going to testify about what I think. I"m going to tell you about what I know. ...
For that is what it was then, and that is what it is today. ... We have had a wonderful life together, and I think about it a lot now. ... Though I offer you time to relax, you just smile and say " that's what I am doing right now." ... Kindness, that's what I see what I look at you. ... But I think its time you knew. ...
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who is dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Everything You Think You Know About Politics... and Why You're Wrong, believes that it is. ... If I had to make a criticism about the book, it would be that the title overstates what the book really contains. ... I believe it would be better represented if the title were changed to a more narrow focus such as, Everything You Think You Know about Presidential Politics, and Why You are Wrong. ... What I found most appealing is the author's claims are bas...
Through the years, and probably through the centuries, teachers have struggled to make math meaningful by providing students with problems and examples demonstrating its applications in everyday life. As this classic joke shows, some strategies are more successful -- and more meaningful -- than othe...
You may think they are on your side, but you'd be wrong." ... There are people who think that women ask for rape by a look or a short skirt or a tight shirt, and there are people who think that any sex at all is rape, because men always prey on women. The pure version of these two ideas is served up mostly by fringe groups, but the more watered down versions are what get touted as truth to different groups of people at different times. ... That' what rape boils down to: brutality. ... The truth is, before we open our mouths to discuss someone's rape or accusations of rape, we...
I rolled my eyes, but once class started, I began to zone out and began to think about what the teachers had been discussing in the hallway. What did I believe? ... I was so scared of what my mother would think of me if I believe in same sex couples, that I adopted her views just to please her. ... Once my anger subsided a little, I really began to think about what my mother had spat at me, and what the signs had read. ... I laid there on my bed thinking until I came to a revelation: man has the privilege to choose what he want to believe in; you do not have to follow anyone else. ...
We are brought up in our families to believe in what they believe. ... People fast; give money, sacrifice, and go to worship in different temples but, what if you are doing it all in the wrong name. ... The hard part of the whole situation is no one really knows what you are thinking. I feel if you need a religion to help you go on from day to day then that is what you should do. ... I think we should all come together under one common understanding that good is good and bad is bad, and only you can choose what religion you want to be a part of. ...
So, I was pleased that the Register gave us some advice on what to do if you should happen to encounter one in the woods. ... "How great that you could think so fast," Mr. ... What did they think they were running toward? ... What keeps us running? What do we run for? ...
