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This work addresses divergent perspectives about the later life stages and elaborates upon the many-sided conflicts and challenges for those in their later years, which I choose to call “the Age of Wisdom and Experience”. It also addresses treatment implications in our work with those in their later stages, and the confusions and possible impasses which can occur when patients and their therapists are in the same later life stage.
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Ruderman, E.G. Later Life Stages—Generativity Versus Cultural Stereotypes: Treatment Considerations. Clin Soc Work J 44, 135–142 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-016-0580-7
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