Question

In Dr. Gawande’s book Being Mortal;

How does Laura Carstensen’s Socioemotional Selectivity Theory fit with the main points of the book?

Answer 1

Being mortal is a meditation on how people can better live with age related frality,serious illnesses and approaching death.Writer recommended that instead of focusing on survival ,practitioners should work to improve quality of life and enable well being .

The book Being mortal is not a plea for assisted death.although writer Gawande is not against the idea of making drug available to terminally ill people who are suffering.He is mainly concerned that reliance on assisted death is yet another distraction from what makes the end of life meaning full,not only for the dying ,but also for those around them. Our failure to give any value to the last phase of life,our insistence on health and safety above all,has led to a dependence on Care home that are little more than parking place.

Laura carstensen socioemotional selectivity thoey is a life span theory of motivation.According to this theory,older adults systematically honer their social networks so that available social partners satisfy their emotional needs.

The gawande book being mortal discuss about improve of quality of life at end stage .Laura carstensens socioemotional selectivity theory discuss about how peoples in later life achieve their goals and make emotionally happy.

The improvement in quality of life in later stages helps to meet their emotional needs and make their life meaning full.