The Gerontologist, Vol 30, Issue 3 362-368, Copyright © 1990 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Confronting developmental tasks in the retirement transition

A Antonovsky and S Sagy
Department of the Sociology of Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.

This paper considers retirement as a widespread developmental transition. It seeks to exploit and advance Erikson's life cycle model, taken as a heuristic device, in three ways: noting major transition challenges between generativity and integrity; distinguishing between tasks and outcomes in such transitions; and viewing such tasks as derived from historical, biological, psychological, and sociocultural realities. Analysis of such realities in the lives of Israeli retirees pointed to four care tasks: active involvement, reevaluation of life satisfaction, reevaluation of a world view, and a sense of health maintenance.

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