NEW LATE LIFE STAGES: MILD AUTUMN OR SEVERE WINTER?
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NEW LATE LIFE STAGES: MILD AUTUMN OR SEVERE WINTER?
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It is affirmed that a person’s main task at the late stage of life is to withstand actively social stereotypes of «old age», which lead a person to passivity and limit his/her consciousness to a restricted sphere of everyday life. An idea is advanced that an aged person should develop his/her concepts a lit the future and should not be absorbed with his past to the detriment of the present. It is proved t at if the person reveals m the surrounding the spheres of his/her autonomy and ability to control current events and make own choices the How of his/her life would be satisfying.

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period of life in late ages, control and responsibility in aged people, psychological «prosthetics» of the environment, social stereotypes of aging.
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01.05.1994
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