By Science News — 2019
Early retirement can accelerate cognitive decline among the elderly, according to new research.
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One of Erikson’s most important contributions was to describe this as a psychosocial phenomenon—an interaction between someone’s sense of who he or she is as a person and society’s recognition of that person as an individual.
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Should a doctor replace an accustomed identity with a meaningless “reality”?
Recognize the emotional fear factors to make the leap.
As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.