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Old age
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- Accelerated physical decline with influence on selfconcept and lifestyle.
- Can accept self and personality as a whole; continued emphasis on physical self, with increased emphasis on inner, emotional self.
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- Ill health —> fear of invalidism, hypochondriasis.
- Denial related to feelings of threatened incapacity and fear of declining functions.
- Despair over loss of beauty, strength, and youthfulness, with self-disgust about body projection of criticism onto others.
- Regression.
- Isolation (separation of affect and thought) leads to less intense response to death, disease, aging.
- Compartmentalization (focus on one thing at a time) causes narrowing of consciousness, resistance, rigidity, repetitiveness.
- Resurgence of egocentrism.
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