Life span in psychology
Quality life for old widowed women
Struggling with the loss of loved ones and the issues that come with ageing like boredom, helplessness, and loneliness can be a very hard task for the elderly widows. As much as their loved ones would want to provide for the basic things like clothing and food, the care of the widow’s social and mental well-being is also very crucial. There are various other ways that family members or foundations can ensure that the elderly widows live a good life. Firstly, caregivers should always consider older women. Events will always keep the older women to be busy and always be hopeful of something. Events like having parties together or taking them to meet their loved ones will make them feel connected to the family members and friends. This will also help the caregivers to have some break and be excited to do their work (Vondracek, Lerner, & Schulenberg, 2019). Secondly, the family members or the people taking care of the widows should consider employing individuals who will be providing home care, companionship and transportation to events or places where the elderly will be able to interact with others by either taking coffee, playing some games or just taking a ride. This will also relieve some of the duties entrusted to the caregivers like preparing meals for them, cleaning their clothes and giving them some medication. This will also help in minimizing stress among the elderly widows. Lastly, the caregivers or family members should allow the elderly widows to share their feelings with their friends or professional counsellors. They should be allowed to talk about their loss because grief is a process, and therefore they should always be listened to.
Quality life for women who were not married but lost their partner
Losing a partner can be a very challenging moment for the lady. Therefore, to ensure that they go through the process, the caregivers should bring professional counsellors who will help the lady go through the grief. The caregivers can also offer to take the women to people who have gone through the same experience so that they share their experience (Baltes, Rudolph & Zacher, 2019). This will help the ladies to heal by encouraging them that they will still get some other partner.
Elderly preventive measures to avoid poverty.
The ageing individuals should come up with a savings plan before retiring. The savings should be automatic and should only be allocated for retirement purposes. This will help them during their old days because they will not have to depend on relatives and the government. The individuals should also engage in various investment methods that will bring income when they are on retirement. Investments in things like real estate will always bring income, and an individual won’t be in trouble one he or she gets old (Schaie, 2016). The individual will be able to take care of the hospital bills and any rising challenges in their old age days. Lastly, the adults should always try to live within their means for them to live a debt-free life in their old age. Debts bring pressure ones someone is old and might reduce the lifespan of the individual.
References
Schaie, K. W. (2016). Theoretical perspectives for the psychology of ageing in a lifespan context. In Handbook of the psychology of ageing (pp. 3-13). Academic Press.
Baltes, B., Rudolph, C. W., & Zacher, H. (Eds.). (2019). Work across the lifespan. Academic Press.
Vondracek, F. W., Lerner, R. M., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2019). Career development: A lifespan developmental approach. Routledge.