Ageing, thresholds and vulnerability

Jean Bouisson

Jean-claude Reinhardt

Sciences humaines et sociales Bien-être et développement personnel

Publié par L'Harmattan, le 01 janvier 2002

144 pages

Résumé

Throughout the multitude of life experiences there exist moments of particular vulnerability, or " thresholds ", where personal resources of the individual are tested and give birth to vastly different trajectories of aging. In light of the concepts of " thresholds " and " vulnerability ", the autors demonstrate that one can begin to discriminate in such circumstances the differences between normal and pathological compnents of aging.