SOWK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Disengagement Theory, Role Theory, Activity Theory
9 May 2016
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Activity theory: holds that people age they have a decrease in life satisfaction and that this can be relieved by engaging in various activities such as joining clubs, volunteer work, or sports. Disengagement theory: asserts that individual adjustment to aging is accomplished by withdrawing from social life and that this is a natural inevitable process. Continuity theory: suggests that to age successfully, one must maintain a consistent lifestyle. According to this view, elders will be most satisfied if they continue roles and activities as middle age. Based on notion that old age is a continuation of a person"s past rather than a break with it. Role theory: seeks to understand the adjustment of aging people to the new oles, entailed in getting older. In context of disengagement, for example, role theory looks at how normal aging involves a functional and voluntary process in which elderly withdraw from social life, letting go of social roles and activities.
