title: Confronting developmental tasks in the retirement transition.
abstract: This paper considers retirement as a widespread developmental transition. It seeks to exploit and advance Erikson's life cycle model, taken as a heuristic device, in three ways: noting major transition challenges between generativity and integrity; distinguishing between tasks and outcomes in such transitions; and viewing such tasks as derived from historical, biological, psychological, and sociocultural realities. Analysis of such realities in the lives of Israeli retirees pointed to four care tasks: active involvement, reevaluation of life satisfaction, reevaluation of a world view, and a sense of health maintenance.
authors.affiliation: Department of the Sociology of Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Antonovsky
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sagy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*