Maintaining community elders

There are some fundamental principles which produce an expectation and perception that people can contribute to society well beyond their retirement age: (1) Integration: housing the elderly in physical proximity to a vital community, including all segments of society; (2) Engagement: providing the necessary impetus for making full use of the capabilities, experience, expertise, intellect and heart of the elderly; (3) Opportunities for contribution: arranging for a deliberated matching of capabilities of older persons with genuine needs within the community.

1. Ensuring cyclical roles

1. Witnessing trans-social symbols
2. Providing for ageing people
3. Providing auxiliary services by the old to the young
4. Conserving social heritage

1. Transmitting historical perspective
2. Reinventing elder's roles
3. Providing advice
4. Personifying archetypal figures
5. Holding information within a culture
6. Demonstrating fullness of life cycles
7. Demanding honour for all stages of life
8. Assuming contemplative role

1. Seeking wise counsel
2. Requiring social vision
3. Ensuring structured participation of elders
4. Embodying future vision
5. Developing relevant policies for the elderly
6. Demanding symbolic leadership

1. Retaining leadership
2. Demonstrating absurdity through contingency
3. Demanding acceptable behaviour in the young

1. Testing tradition pragmatically
2. Testing cultural relevance

1. Community
2. Anticommunity