[Psychotherapy].
The human being faces social, physical, and mentally various changes with aging. It is a view of anti-aging to maintain the quality of life, to improve and to aim at a healthy long life in such change that is not avoided. For example, the loss of social roles will be experienced more often. Moreover, the fall of a physical function is felt and it comes to experience the anxiety over illness or death. Thus, in experience that "the thing" which there was commonly loses, comes to feel loneliness, depressive mood, and sadness. In this paper, we want to introduce about the psychotherapy as a purpose which maintains a healthy mental activity, taking such the elderly people psychology into consideration.
Kawasaki
Yohsuke
Y
Department of Psychiatry, Kyosai Hospital.
Hishi
Mami
M
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*