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Using literary, scientific and personal elements, the author articulately reflects on the way that men and women face old age in wisdom.
Senility is a condition that involves for human beings profound existential crisis and continuous search of meaning.
Modern contexts and extension of human life span need a new approach to old age from three points of view: state, family and personal ones. These perspectives are deeply examined below.
Keyword in english
wisdom; senility; existential crisis; search for meaning