ABSTRACT
The “graying of America” is a subject often written and spoken about in contemporary society. McFadden (1995) stated,“Among the many changes in the human self-concept produced by developments in the twentieth century has been the emergence of the expectation that a long life is normative” (p. 161). The elderly population itself is aging, and at the turn of the recent century nearly half of this population was 75 or older.
