Aging and spirituality: reclaiming connection through storytelling.

In this article, the author indicates it is possible for older somebodys to renew community connections with storytelling and, from one side this means, to ask a certain number of compelling questions. The answers to these questions provide a faculty of perception of meaning and purpose for a life well lived.

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The last stage of life provides an individual with the opportunity to approach the crucial tasks of adjusting to many losse maintaining outside interests, and adjusting to retirement. Erikson (1959) noted that felicitous resolution of this stage offers when individuals can direct the eye back on the past