Yet, the capacity to change, according to prevailing stereotype, decreases with age. '' Learning capacity'' falters with time, and it is fair to say that the major portion of gerontological research throughout the country is concerned almost enthusiastically with measuring decline in variouscognitive, perceptual, and psychomotor functions. Comparable attention toward studies of the individual, of growing wisdom, of the meaning of experience, is not ordinary.
It is therefore of interest to notice the positive, affirmative changes reported by the aged themselves as part of their life experience, and to find constructive alternations in character, possibly as a consequence of the life review.
それは、彼らの人生経験の一部として、熟成自体によって報告された、肯定的な変化に気づくため、おそらく、人生の見直しの結果として、文字で建設的な交代を見つけることは興味深いことである。