Challenges of the Third Age Meaning and Purpose in Later Life
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Challenges of the Third Age Meaning and Purpose in Later Life Description
This volume addresses the issues of the Third Agethat time after retirement when financial stability and reduced obligations to others, together, allow for freedomand good health makes it possible to enjoy that freedom. How, in this special time of life, is meaning and purpose to be found? And what alternatives are available? These difficult questions are responded to by scholars in the field of aging, some themselves in the Third Age.
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| OPC | PDHNPKQ |
|---|---|
| Codes | 0195150252 (ISBN-10) |
| 9780195150254 (ISBN) |
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The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted a time in which they are free from social expectations and to a large extent from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead men and women have the freedom and the need to find new activities that they can imbue with meaning. The term Third Age has been given to this time of life during which for most there is relatively good health financial stability and reduced family obligations. The problems and possibilities of this Third Age serve as the material for this book. How do older people decide how to deploy their continued vitality now that they are free from the demands of work and children? How do they find meaning in daily life? In this book scholars from several disciplines consider the way in which meaning can be found in this important stage of later life. They discuss sociological psychological and religious determinants of responses to the challenges of finding meaningful activity after retirement.
The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted a time in which they are free from social expectations and to a large extent from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead men and women have the freedom and the need to find new activities that they can imbue with meaning. The term Third Age has been given to this time of life during which for most there is relatively good health financial stability and reduced family obligations. The problems and possibilities of this Third Age serve as the material for this book. How do older people decide how to deploy their continued vitality now that they are free from the demands of work and children? How do they find meaning in daily life? In this book scholars from several disciplines consider the way in which meaning can be found in this important stage of later life. They discuss sociological psychological and religious determinants of responses to the challenges of finding meaningful activity after retirement.
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- ISBN Challenges of the Third Age ( Meaning and Purpose in Later Life ) 216 pages English
- ISBN Challenges of the Third Age ( Meaning and Purpose in Later Life ) 216 pages English
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| Language version | English |
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| Release date (DD/MM/YYYY) | 27/05/2004 |
| Number of pages | 216 pages |
| Written by | Robert S. Weiss, Scott A. Bass |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Suggested gender | Any gender |
| International Standard Book Number (ISBN) | 9780195150254 |
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