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 It is seen that older adults who show openness to new experiences, more striving
and achievementoriented behaviour prefer to keep busy and are better adjusted.
 Children usually are busy in their careers and families and may set up independent
homes.
 Older adults may depend on their children for financial support and to overcome
their loneliness which might trigger-off feelings of hopelessness and depression in
some people.
 In old age feeling of loss of energy, and dwindling of health and financial assets,
leadto insecurity and dependency.

 Although death is more likely to occur in late adulthood, death can come at any
point in development.
 Death of a spouse is usually seen as the most difficult loss.
 Widows by far out-number widowers, because studies show that women live longer
than men.
 People in different cultures view death differently.
~ In the Gond culture in our country, it is believed that death is caused by magic and
demon.
~ In the Tanala culture of Madagascar, natural forces are thought to cause death.