Psychologists Agree: when People Older than 70 Start Giving Away Their Things They Seek to Distribute Proofs of Their Life
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Although some family members may worry about this action, it does not always have a negative connotation
Far from domestic cleansing, this intentional redistribution of objects seeks to preserve identity and strengthen family ties, ensuring that their personal history lasts beyond a will.
When an older person begins to give away objects that he has preserved for decades, such as a tableware, paintings, books or decoration pieces, his family members can interpret it as a sign that he no longer attaches importance to material things. Psychology offers a more complex explanation. Over the years, belongings can acquire a different meaning, since some are no longer necessary, while others become memories that the person wants to trans…
Psychology says when people over 70 start giving things away — the china, the tools, the rings — they aren't decluttering; they've reached the stage where distributing proof of a life matters more than keeping it
When my grandma turned 74, she started giving things away. She gave my brother her record collection, the one she’d been building since her twenties. She gave my sister the china tea set that came out every Sunday and every holiday for as long as any of us could remember. My mom got the painting that had hung in her hallway forever, the one my mom always stopped in front of when she visited. And she gave me the gold chain with the locket. The bi…
Psychologists say that people who age the most beautiful at age 70 are not necessarily the most active. Mind & Matter's publication shows that many of them have gradually given up on something specific. They no longer seek the approval of people who would never give it to them. What research shows about social selectivity Psychologist Laura Carstensen from Stanford has developed the theory of socio-emotional selectivity. According to Stanford, a…
Psychologists say the adults who seem to age most gracefully in their seventies aren't the ones who stayed busiest, they're the ones who slowly gave themselves permission to stop auditioning for approval from people who were never going to hand it out
Consider how a river changes as it approaches the sea. In its upper reaches it argues with every rock, cuts new channels, tries to prove something to the landscape. By the time it widens toward the delta, it has stopped fighting the terrain. It moves slower, carries more, and does not appear to need the noise it once made. Something similar seems to happen to certain people in their seventies. Not all of them. But enough of them that it is worth…
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