CRIZA VÂRSTEI A TREIA: PROBLEME ȘI SOLUȚII

Liliana SALCUȚAN Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Аннотация

THIRD AGE CRISIS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS The transition process to the market economy has increased socio-economic issues, including worsening of living standard, poverty phenomenon, social differentiation, latent unemployment, worsening of housing maintenance and utilities board, poor accessibility of medical, educational and social services, which all had a negative impact on demo- graphic processes. As an individualized process, old age is a concept that includes physical changes in human body after adult life, individual psychological changes, mental capacity. The ageing evolution is a result of multiple phenomenon with con- tinuous and irreversible changes in human body. These changes lead to a decrease in the individual ability to adaption to the environment. The association of natural changes of involution with chronic diseases cause domestic problems turning them into the group with the highest risk of illness. These are caused by the inability to the changes adaption in social life, which is often manifested by the crisis of the third age. The purpose of this article is to identify the psychosocial features of the third age crisis, proposing the application of practical working methods: training citizens for the retirement process, individual and group counseling of people who have been taken up by work or family life. In social work, these techniques can not be achieved because of unwanted and unprepared professionals to work with older people. In conclusion, some older people go to this stage of their life – the retirement – not being prepared for and supported by anyone. But others need guidance of professionals (psychologists, social workers etc.) to reduce the third age crisis. Keywords: third age, older people, identity crisis, desperation, preoccupation, passive roles, individual counseling.