During this time people again depend on others, because they can no longer work, or they are too sick to care for themselves. The growth into old age in our society means leaving behind past roles and becoming dependent again. This page shows us just how much society wants the elderly to become young again. It shows medicines and cremes to make the elderly look younger, and feel younger. Our society physically isolates dying people.
Most people now die in hospitals or homes for the elderly, alone.
Our society does not cope well with death so we want to keep it as far away and out of sight as possible. This page allows you to enter information, and it will then give you back a readout of when your death will be. This page tells how society reacts to death, and it also gives links to other related sociology sites that deal with death. First, although the essential traits of each stage of life are linked to the biological process of aging they are also socially constructed. Second, each phase of the life course in any society presents characteristic problems and transitions that involve learning something new and, in many cases, unlearning what has become familiar.