scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF THE OLD AGE IN THE TOWNS OF THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN TIMES

2018 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
T. Hoshko
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
The Town

From ancient times, philosophical treatises divided human life into separate periods. The most extreme of them were childhood and old age. If the first of these stages is relatively well represented both in legal literature and documentary sources, the second one is paid much less attention. There was no clear dating of the beginning of old age. The attitude towards older people was ambivalent, which was dictated by both Christian views and the practice of life. These views were widespread in the towns of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. The town law to some extent protected older people, but in most cases, they did not act as subjects of law. The important groups of sources for the history of old age are the codes of law and burghers’ testaments.

Medicine and Old Age

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susannah Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
The West ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
Male Ageing ◽  
Human Life Span

This article attempts to pull together recent developments and to summarize our knowledge of old age. It primarily focuses on the history of ageing in the West and compares it with other cultures. It concerns the limits and possible extension of the human life span. It includes discussion almost exclusively on male ageing. There are a few medical texts written specifically on female ageing and these focus primarily on menopause. Most studies of the history of ageing, and certainly those most relevant to the history of medicine deal with the demographic and social history of old age and a few larger works have framed the discussion of old age history more generally as centred on the question of continuity versus change in the historical expectations and experiences of old age. There is currently a burgeoning literature on pensions and on old age institutions.

Kiedy w starożytności rozpoczynała się starość?

Vox Patrum ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 185-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Jurkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Old People ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Chronological Time

When does man begin to be old: when he is sixty, sixty-five and perhaps seventy? Nothing is more uncertain than the beginning of the old age. Is man`s age the matter of his heart, brain, mood, or chronological time? In the ancient world, there was no clear understanding regarding the beginning of the old age. We have different classifications of the stages of human life, but there was no specified year, which would mark the old age. It was a year between 46 and 60 years of age. Today the age of 46 is not the beginning of the old age. In the ancient world, life was much shorter, so it is not surprising that 46 years old was regarded as the beginning of old age. There were two trends in ancient Greece and Rome. One represented by Plato and Cicero: older people are wise, experienced, worthy of reverence and respect. The second trend represented by Aristotle: older people are quarrelsome, greedy, cowardly. The life of old people was different. The rich lived very well, but in general the old age in ancient times was a difficult time.

Aging and Twentieth-Century Britain

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Charlotte Greenhalgh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
British State

Existing scholarship on the history of old age displays several puzzling contradictions. Its chronological definitions of old age, which usually begin at around sixty, encompass people of enormous diversity in health, wealth, and even age. Meanwhile, older people themselves reject such definitions. Instead, elderly Britons have typically looked to their own lives in order to understand what it has meant to grow old. In the twentieth century, experiences of old age were shaped by the increasingly humane treatment of older Britons. Yet the British state simultaneously tolerated persistent poverty among the aged. This book addresses these tensions by uniting the public and private histories of aging and by putting the particular challenges of researching old age at the heart of its account.

scholarly journals The Complex History of old age in Pre-Modern and Modern England

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 867-871
Author(s):  
Susannah Ottaway
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age

Paying for Old Age: Past, Present, Future

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thomas ◽  
Paul Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on one fundamental aspects of an ageing population — how to pay for old age, individually and collectively. It also presents a study of the history of old age support in the UK and US and concludes that despite the quite different beginnings of the public pension and social security systems, government policy in both countries has become similarly locked in to a set of institutional arrangements which were devised to respond to immediate social and economic problems, but which have acquired a rationale and a dynamic of their own.

History of Old Age: From Antiquity to the Renaissance.

1991 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 1506
Author(s):  
David G. Troyansky ◽  
Georges Minois ◽  
Sarah Hanbury Tenison
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Old Age
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