Role of the Family and of the Social Services in Elderly Persons’ Life

Abstract

The structure of the ego, the manner in which there are exercised the person’s needs and impulsions in his/her relations with the environment, meet, once with retirement, a new psychological context. This way, the retired person enters a crisis of the interests and of the professional capacities trained up to the retirement, to which there adds the prestige crisis. This paper brings to the forefront the elderly person’s identity, which may be maintained or modified by the persons whom the former interacts with.