Surveys of retired men in the UK and US consistently find the same uncomfortable pattern: a significant share report a loss ...

Azadeh “Azi” Block’s American story is the confluence of many. On her maternal side, Block is a descendant of Stephen Hopkins ...

The disconnect between what I was expecting to feel and what I actually felt was so large that, at the end of last year, I ...

A middle-aged parent is gently offering an umbrella or adjusting their adult child's collar before they leave for work. Image Credit: Gemini ...

Generativity, first conceptualised within a psychosocial framework of adult development, denotes an individual’s concern for and commitment to nurturing subsequent generations. It emerges most ...

Paula Payne Hardin crossed her Rainbow Bridge in her own home as she most hoped she would on March 27, 2026, at the age of 92. She was a resident of Vero Beach, Florida. She was born in Kansas City, ...

This article presents a narrative-based case study about chronic illness and genetic uncertainty and their relationship to generativity throughout the life course. Our focus is a woman who experienced ...

Erik Erikson was a German psychologist who theorized that there's a specific psychological struggle that takes place through the eight stages of a person's life. These struggles, he believed, ...

Older adults who exhibit concern for guiding and contributing to future generations, a quality known as generativity, are more likely to enjoy psychological well-being and lead fulfilling lives, ...

This issue explores how different theoretical traditions have conceptualized the generative capacities of language and thought, and how these ideas intersect with contemporary developments in AI. We ...

As generational gaps grow wider, those living in their old age are getting a bad rap. Younger generations see baby boomers as disgruntled, quick to anger, and hard to deal with. However, not everyone ...