Ageing and Senility: A Major Problem of Psychiatry

1946 ◽  
Vol 92 (386) ◽  
pp. 150-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubrey Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Senile Dementia ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reproduction Rate ◽  
Old People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Net Reproduction

The psychiatric aspects of ageing are a major problem in any country which, like our own, has a low net reproduction rate and a high standard of social responsibility: the proportion of old people in the community steadily increases, so that they provide an increasingly high proportion of our mentally infirm population who must be cared for. But it is not only senile dementia and the other senile and presenile psychoses described in textbooks that make up the problem: less conspicuous failings which may accompany old age also call for attention if the social and preventive sides of our work are to be given due weight. Therefore it is psychiatric aspects of ageing rather than senile psychoses alone that are intended by the title of this paper.

scholarly journals Planning services for the elderly

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Greg Spencer ◽  
David Jolley
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Reproduction Rate ◽  
Old People ◽  
Net Reproduction

“The psychiatric aspects of ageing are a major problem in any country which, like our own, has a low net reproduction rate and a high standard of social responsibility. The proportion of old people in the community steadily increases so that they provide an increasingly high proportion of our mentally infirm who must be cared for”.

scholarly journals “Greying population”: Economic, social, and ethical appreciation of old age

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Gałuszka
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Old People ◽  
Main Motivation ◽  
The Social

As the population is growing older, sociologists and economists are becoming more interested in analyzing this phenomenon. There are two paradigms for interpreting old age. The first one points to excluding old people from social and economic life. It is argued that there should be a balance between activities and possibilities of old people. The other paradigm points to the social, political and economic activities of old people until the end of their lives. It emphasizes their life experience and competencies. The article presents new processes and socio-cultural phenomena that refer to seniors. Some of them are negative like ageism, social isolation, deprivation, the uncertainty of fate and existence. Others are positive and described as “the cult of age” like the dynamic expansion of the grey people industry, development of health care and consumer projects for the elderly. The article argues that the sense and dignity of life of the elderly should be defended, as it is the main motivation and reason for living.

scholarly journals Biomimetic Organisations: A Management Model that Learns from Nature

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2329
Author(s):  
Edita Olaizola ◽  
Rafael Morales-Sánchez ◽  
Marcos Eguiguren Huerta
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social

Since the end of the last century, different approaches for corporate management have been appearing that try to incorporate the social advances that are being produced and disseminated thanks to the greater capacity of communication available through social networks and other traditional avenues. Among the best known are Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, the Circular Economy, and Collaborative Economics. All of them add value to organisations, and all of them have a common characteristic: they are anthropocentric approaches. Our proposal goes a step further: we need a worldview that is capable of placing organisations in a position of continuous learning looking at nature, because it is the best way to integrate into it as a more ecosystem and thus achieve its flowering respecting the once to all the other subsystems that make up the planet: Organizational Biomimicry. This work compares the anthropocentric vision with the worldview at the same time that it offers a guide of the essential steps so that Organizational Biomimicry is the new model of corporate management.

Aging, Meaning, and Well-Being: Musings of a Cultural Historian

1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Old People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Cultural Historian ◽  
Cultural Dominance

The social integration and well-being of old people depends in part on a culturally viable ideal of old age. Growing out of widely shared images and social values, an ideal old age legitimates norms and roles appropriate to the last stage of life. This article discusses the “late Calvinist” and “civilized” models of old age that flourished in Protestant, middle-class America between 1800 and 1920. It argues that the growing cultural dominance of science and the accelerating pace of capitalist productivity undercut the essential vision underlying these models: the view of life as a spiritual journey. The result has been a serious weakening of social meaning in aging and old age.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Management of Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Nitesh Raj
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Social

<p><em>These days when the Central Government is interested in Make in India campaign the scale of management or evaluation of business is not as if used to be about fifty years ago. At that time only that business organization was considered good which was earning profit for its owner but today the situation is absolutely changed. Today business has to look to the interest of many other stakeholders along with the interest of the owner. The employees- line and top management, consumers, suppliers, competitors, government, community, environment and even the world happen to be the other stakeholders. This responsibility of business, which includes the satisfaction of these parties along with the owner, is called the social responsibility of business or corporate sectors.</em></p>

Vitamin C in Senile Psychoses

1940 ◽  
Vol 86 (363) ◽  
pp. 675-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Berkenau
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Senile Dementia ◽  
Brain Cells ◽  
Old People ◽  
Histological Changes ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Constitutional Factor ◽  
The Brain

The senile psychoses are in regard to their origin an unsolved problem. Much valid work has been done in the field of anatomy and histology in approaching this problem, but as the mental diseases of old age cannot be separated from the growing old of body and mind generally, this problem is more or less a biological one. The borderline between old age and senile dementia is not a sharp one. In brains of old people without clinical symptoms of dementia there have been found histological changes, such as are usually found in cases of senile dementia. This makes it probable that the extent of degeneration of brain cells alone is not decisive for the appearance of senile psychoses. The finding of the characteristic plaques in the brain of senile psychoses may give evidence of the extent of the process and the severity of clinical symptoms, but it does not tell us anything about their nature and origin. Whether a constitutional factor is decisive or whether the histological changes are a reaction to an unknown noxa is undecided. Heredity may have its share too.

Prometheus Chained

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter J.D. Drenth
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Behavioral Scientist ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Demand Censorship

The Chained Prometheus is introduced as a metaphor for the behavioral scientist. Science (including psychology and pedagogy) is no longer taken for granted. Society, politics, and the media pose critical questions and not infrequently demand censorship or at least control of science. An analysis is given of the types of criticism and skepticism with respect to science, and to psychology in particular. The (behavioral) scientist faces a dilemma: On the one hand, science cannot exist and develop without freedom; on the other hand, this does not mean the freedom to amass knowledge at any price and without any restrictions. Thus, we balance ourselves between freedom and ethical/social responsibility. This presentation reflects on the question of the social and ethical limitations of (behavioral) science: Who should control what and on which criteria?

Corporate social responsibility á la the liberal communist

Organization ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Cederström ◽  
Michael Marinetto
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dynamic Structures ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Practical Nature

This article explores the ‘liberal communist’, a conceptual and satirical figure originally elaborated in the work of Slavoj Žižek (2008). The liberal communist claims (1) that there is no opposition between capitalism and the social good; (2) that all problems are of a practical nature, and hence best solved by corporate engagement and (3) that hierarchies, authority and centralized bureaucracies should be replaced by dynamic structures, a nomadic lifestyle and a flexible spirit. This analysis of the liberal communist has at least two implications for research on CSR. First, it examines the ideological role of CSR by moving beyond a propaganda view, instead offering an ideological reading that focuses on the ways in which CSR seeks to obliterate any existing contradictions between ‘philanthropic actions’ on the one hand and ‘profit-seeking business activities’ on the other hand. Second, it demonstrates how critique is not necessarily what corporations seek to avoid, but something that they actively engage in.

From Wisdom to Witchcraft: Ambivalence Towards Old Age in Rural Ghana

Africa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sjaak van der Geest
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Old People ◽  
Rural Ghana ◽  
Rural Town ◽  
Cultural Code

AbstractThis article presents fragments of conversation with elderly and younger people in the rural town of Kwahu Tafo. The statements of the various speakers are often contradictory. The borders between respect and hatred, admiration and envy, affection and fear prove porous. The article is an attempt to understand the changing sentiments of the young towards the old, and vice versa. Elders pronounce both blessings and curses. Their spiritual power is sometimes appreciated as wisdom, the fruit of lifelong experience. At other times that spiritual power is denounced as witchcraft. Theologically these statements sound confusing and contradictory. From a sociological point of view, however, they make sense. They express the basic ambivalence of young people towards the old. On one hand there is respect, a cultural code which is almost ‘natural’: one regards with awe and admiration what came before. On the other, old people engender resentment because of their overbearing attitude and their refusal to ‘go’. The fact that young people die while old people remain alive is a reversal of the natural order and reeks of witchcraft.

The Social Responsibility of Information Systems Developers

2003 ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. F. du Plooy
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Information Systems Professionals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Side ◽  
The One

Information systems professionals have often been accused of ignoring issues such as ethics, human factors, social consequences, etc., during the development of an information system. This chapter aims to put into perspective that this attitude or ‘fact’ could be a result of a somewhat outdated mechanistic view of information systems and their role in organizations. Organizations adopt and use information systems for a variety of reasons, of which some of the most influential on the outcome or success of the systems often are neither planned nor anticipated. It is these reasons and their consequences that are the main point of discussion in this chapter. The importance of viewing information systems as social systems is stressed and it is pointed out that the ‘social side’ of information systems is the ‘other side of the coin’ of technical development methodologies. In the modern organization all work is so intertwined with the use of information technology that the one side cannot be considered, planned or developed, without considering the other. It is furthermore argued that it is the social responsibility of information systems professional to ensure that the human environment within which systems are being developed is cultivated and nurtured.

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