stories emerge of people like poppies in a wheat field, individual dots may interrupt the dazzling golden objectivity. Similarly, and perhaps even more The company is underpinned by individual walks of life who break the forms of categorization and the general.
There is a well-defined social category, that of the elderly, sometimes if we are talking about an older person we tend to put our attention on that feature, according to the stereotype, prejudice, or as defined by Erving Goffman, stigma, must distinguish the category of old, namely "loss" : physical strength, mental energy, financial resources, emotional and sexual relationships, social role. But because the older we all look the same? Perhaps, on reflection, we can say that we adults tended to place them in a category categorize because it is a process that allows us to cope with new situations with a slight expenditure of psychic energy, so it is convenient to add a person and / or situation connected to it in the category known, the old .
We might try another location! (?)
Discover the subjective dimension of the life stories of older people from the stories. Telling and tell is full of implications for the person, the story helps your identity, the constant coming and going, past and present, of thoughts helps the elderly person to be represented as a specific unit, consistent, unique, despite the biological changes, psychological and social.
course, in some cases there must be a person willing to listen and prepared to meet the demands and needs of the person in front of him, to establish an interpersonal relationship based on empathy, authenticity and spontaneity, to transmit confidence in the elderly partner with an active and a non-judgmental attitude, thus creating a climate of freedom in the use of verbal and nonverbal communication, but in many cases each of us has the potential to raise feelings, emotions and experiences that make up the budget of a whole life lived by the old grandfather, father, uncle, or unknown old met on the street.
"Talking is good, if we were talking with the elders know and maybe we could understand that there are monsters, not the negative reflection of what we are, but there will only appear as a single poppy in a cornfield ...
Massimo Tumini
There is a well-defined social category, that of the elderly, sometimes if we are talking about an older person we tend to put our attention on that feature, according to the stereotype, prejudice, or as defined by Erving Goffman, stigma, must distinguish the category of old, namely "loss" : physical strength, mental energy, financial resources, emotional and sexual relationships, social role. But because the older we all look the same? Perhaps, on reflection, we can say that we adults tended to place them in a category categorize because it is a process that allows us to cope with new situations with a slight expenditure of psychic energy, so it is convenient to add a person and / or situation connected to it in the category known, the old .
We might try another location! (?)
Discover the subjective dimension of the life stories of older people from the stories. Telling and tell is full of implications for the person, the story helps your identity, the constant coming and going, past and present, of thoughts helps the elderly person to be represented as a specific unit, consistent, unique, despite the biological changes, psychological and social.
course, in some cases there must be a person willing to listen and prepared to meet the demands and needs of the person in front of him, to establish an interpersonal relationship based on empathy, authenticity and spontaneity, to transmit confidence in the elderly partner with an active and a non-judgmental attitude, thus creating a climate of freedom in the use of verbal and nonverbal communication, but in many cases each of us has the potential to raise feelings, emotions and experiences that make up the budget of a whole life lived by the old grandfather, father, uncle, or unknown old met on the street.
"Talking is good, if we were talking with the elders know and maybe we could understand that there are monsters, not the negative reflection of what we are, but there will only appear as a single poppy in a cornfield ...
Massimo Tumini
