Abstract
‘My memory is not what it used to be’; ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ — how many comments are frequently made with the implication that mental deterioration in age is inevitable and inexorable, not only by the population at large but, as indicated by the first remark, reinforced by the elderly themselves? How true are these negative expectations of mental capabilities in later years?
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Huyck, M.A., Growing Older — What You Need to Know about Ageing, Prentice-Hall, 1974
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Further reading
Midwinter, E., Mutual Aid Universities — A Self-help Approach to the Education of Older People, Croom Helm, 1983
Puner, M., To the Good Long Life — What We Know about Growing Old, Macmillan, 1979
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© 1987 Gill Garrett
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Garrett, G. (1987). The psychology of ageing. In: Health Needs of the Elderly. The Essentials of Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09486-8_3
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