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Question: What are the factors that might lead to a loss of identity during ageing? How might care workers support people during this process?
Answer: Our identity is like a complicated woven fabric. It is made up of several different areas that change and build as time goes on. Your name, the street you live on, your family connections and their history, your race, your marital status, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses, your hair colour, your career, your likes and dislikes, whether you have children; the list is endless. Of course a large part of these are changeable from one decade to another, and as we age and experience change, the previous ‘you’ becomes your past – your history. It is still part of your overall identity even if it currently isn’t the foremost thing in your life. A feeling of identity-loss can occur as a person gets older and frailer. It may happen over several years, or seemingly all at once but as things change they can feel like they are losing ‘themself’ and who they are. For example,...(short extract)
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- Subject: Nursing
- Course: K100
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 87%
- Words: 1622
- Date submitted: January 13, 2009
- Date written: August, 2004
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 116
