Older Adulthood

Older Adulthood
Old age is a time for reflecting upon one's own life and its role in the big scheme of things, and seeing it filled with pleasure and satisfaction or disappointments and failures. Older adulthood is a period between 60 years of age and death and is the time to enjoy the successes of life with integrity or despair over the failures of life and fear death. In order to get a better grasp on this period in one's life I interviewed my 62 year old neighbor Jim. Jim is retired and has been for about 3 years, but still continues to work on the side for his old company because it…