Old age: ethical and psychological perspectives
Binetti, P.
La Clinica Terapeutica 155(11-12): 547-552
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-9074 PMID: 15861970 Document Number: 580802
PREMISED: The extension of the average life and the contraction of the births have generated a negative evaluation of the future social models. The old age is seen more as a problem than as possible resource, more as something to be frightened from than something belonging to all of us. The current study aims at overturning this negative point of view that sees senility as a continuous recourse to Medicine and not as a progressive resource investment, seems to be dominating today the relation of care witch seems the old aged needing is a connection point in dialogue among generation opens new possibilities of interaction. For this reason it is important to understand the meaning of senility for the cognitive point of view grasping the elements of specific richness that are important to keep obtaining a new point of view of the old age. Bioethics and psychology can help induce to think that senility is that phase of life in which the subject nevertheless all the psycho-physical limitations, individualises the answer to important questions of life and death, that are removed when the pragmatic realization is more pursuing.