Paralysis of elders faced with the future

Present social images and structures cast the elders of society into a parochial context and rigid roles. The overemphasis on being economical productive as the major criteria for social usefulness renders retirement as a time of death in relation to society and its needs.

Because they are unable to accept the whole of past experience, including tragic as well as happy occurrences, older people are unable to identify with the present fast pace of society; they cannot see demands on their skills as part of historical development; nor can they use their insight into history to generate a vision of the future.

1. Limited social guidance by older generations
2. Lack of ability
3. Inhibited capacity to visualize a creative future
4. Psychological stress of time passing

1. Unmeaningful social roles for the aged
2. Restrictive patterns of tradition-bound lifestyle
3. Limited strength of elders
4. Limited social guidance from older generations
5. Boredom of the elderly
6. Predatory delay

1. Temporal deprivation
2. Lack of facilities for educating older people
3. Historically determined concerns
4. Glorification of the past
5. Fear of increased autonomy
6. Failure to profit from patterns of history
7. Denial by old people of the significance of the past

1. Limited community responsibility of adults
2. Disorientation of youth in a culturally turbulent environment

1. Stimulating future interest for the elderly
2. Reinventing elder's roles
3. Envisioning future development
4. Abstaining from developments for the aged

1. Age
2. Lack
3. Paralysis
4. Inability