In the book The Ageless Self (1986), author Sharon Kaufman explains how older people create a connection of self by unfolding the sense of their lives which is discovered over the life evaluation process. They preserve a logic of self and of constant uniqueness throughout their lifetime and, therefore, can "be themselves" in old age. In order to accomplish self-integrity, they assimilate and accept different incidents of their lifetime into what Kaufman calls themes. These themes are produced by people as a means by which they interpret and evaluate their life experiences. Themes are logistic and helpful indicators which attach and assimilate diverse experiences and build and sustain stability. Themes fall into different types. Certain themes …show more content…
In order for two things to be perfectly equal, they would need to be the same and it should be obvious that a man and a woman are not the identical. Not only are they dissimilar on the somatic level but they differ in nearly every style that they relate to the world around them. Men and women have different communication skills, different uses of emotion and even different perceptions of discomfort. However just because men and women are different does not mean that one is superior than the other, in fact the actual being of humanity hinge on these differences. These differences are what we might call harmonizing and they are part of the productivity and design of humanity Bernard Toutounji …show more content…
Women apply for resources such as Medicare, which allows them to visit doctors and try to maintain healthy (medicines). Women seek outside resources to assist with maintaining a healthy and active body and mind. For examples, they take classes to engage with others, and walk or swim to maintain physically active. The family is also usually the center for most elder women as they are also the center of family, so children and grandchildren are usually always around.
According to the article Why Women Live Longer than Men women, as a group, live longer than men. In all developed countries and most undeveloped ones, women outlive men, sometimes by a margin of as much as 10 years. In the U.S., life expectancy at birth is about 79 years for women and about 72 years for men. The gender discrepancy is most pronounced in the very old: among centenarians worldwide, women outnumber men nine to one. The gender gap has widened in this century as gains in female life expectancy have exceeded those for