5 Types of Personality in the Elderly
Mental function. In general, a decline in cognitive and psychomotor function. Cognitive function includes prises learning, comprehension, understanding, action and others decreased, so that the behavior tends to be slower. Old age dementia, change and decline in cognitive function will be clear and progressive.
Psychomotor functions which include encouragement / act in general began to slow down so that the reaction and coordination also becomes slow. While a positive thing that is respected, elders, respected, wiser, more careful in action, where to seek advice. Broadly speaking there are 5 types of personality in elderly :
- Constructive Type: People from youth can accept the fact and life, become old accepted with ease. They have properties that are tolerant and flexible, so flexible in accepting the fact for example; retirement, loss of a spouse, and so on, they receive but not resigned.
- Dependent types: passive nature is not ambitious, optimistic was implemented late marriage, dominated by his wife. In the elderly happy for retirement and relaxing, plenty to eat and enjoy the holiday. But if they lose their spouse feel lost depends who is a big problem, so it is not rare that they constantly sick and eventually followed his partner more quickly.
- Independent type (self): At a young age who are active in social interaction, the reaction is quite good adjustment, and tend to reject the bid / help others. The situation is likely to be maintained until old age so anxious to face old age, for example, tends to delay retirement or remain active in the profession or job and did not seem to enjoy old age.
- Hostile Type: People who tend to blame others for his mistakes, often complain, aggressive, suspicious, employment history is not fixed, can not see the positive side in the elderly, fear of death, jealous of the young people. Often behave as if they are looking for tranquility as the picture depicts him uneasy.
- Type of self-hate: People who are critical of themselves, are not ambitious at work. Marriage less happy because a lot of self-pity, and children's lives, as if the past is supposed to be filled with all the desire has passed, finally resigned but not "nrimo". so much in crisis.
