Involving older people after retirement in society and family

• Author: Florentina Nina Mocanasu
• Position: Faculty of Law, Journalism, Psychology and the Science of Education, Hyperion University, Popa Nan Street, nr 90-92, Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 118-123

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, ww w.juridicaljournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 4 (2014), pp. 118-123

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INVOLVING OLDER PEOPLE AFTER RETIREMENT IN SOCIETY

AND FAMILY

F. N. Mocanasu

Florentina Nina Mocanasu

Faculty of Law, Journalism, Psychology and the Science of Education

Hyperion University, Popa Nan Street, nr 90-92, Bucharest, Romania

*Correspondence: Nina Florentina Mocanasu, Hyperion University, Bucharest,

Romania

Email: motornina@yahoo.com

Abstract:

In recent years sociologists believed that for individuals withdraw from active life was

an event with exclusively negative consequences, recent research has shown that especially

when seniors are in good condition and have adequate income they feel satisfied with the

changes of retirement. In some fields (education, medicine) they can continue their work a few

years in the private sector.

In the society we live competence should be a key factor that makes people to be open

or not to social change and not to age discrimination. Currently, to biological and

psychological aging are added social aging that leads the individual to social exclusion,

because, unfortunately, old age often came to be associated by others, with the disease,

impotence, conservatism, lack of discernment, irritability and dependence on others.

Older people are often treated with contempt and looked that overall they represent a

wealth of society.

Often society associated aging with loss of sensory capacity, with changes in mobility

and retirement; however, some researchers have shown that for most older people, these

changes are not so burdensome, nor so obvious as one might imagine.

Keywords: active life, change, discrimination, degree of competence, social

aging, retirement, addiction, contempt.

The significance of social problems is neither clear nor obvious to all people living

in a country. From this point of view, some individuals may feel that this is a harmful or

undesirable condition, but other will appreciate that this is a benefit to society. Such is the

paradigm of retirement; it is a recognized social and legal problem but also supports extensive

debate on the need for retirement from older age or younger, usefulness ofthose people or

their exclusion from the labor market and their adaptability to new social conditions of family,

friends and former coworkers. Interpretation of this social problem, thus involving different

perspectives, even conflicting because some consider a solution for reducing unemployment

and creating new jobs while others consider it a social problem for both retirees and those who

take their place and are deprived of experiences.

The event most often associated with old age is retirement period or period of time

when the individual retires from active professional life. Retirement brings many changes in

the individual's life some with negative character and other with positive character. For people

who have acquired a certain routine of life the effects of retirement can be felt more severely

than those who have not activated permanently in the same professional field. No matter how

they are perceived in society, retirees still feel useless, stigmatized, discriminated against and

removed from society.

Therefore, for a better assessment it should be given the response for two questions:

•Who defines this social problem?