Working with Seniors: Health, Financial, and Social Issues

Chapter 5: The Experience of Aging

Seniors face key developmental tasks in later life. They develop various strategies toward aging, which you learn about in this chapter, as well as the importance to seniors of finding meaning in their lives.

This chapter enables you understand how the world of old age is different from the world of youth or middle age, and what you must know and do to respond to these differences when you work with seniors.