ABSTRACT
The moment of birth and the process of life are attachment-based. The differentiation of pleasure and pain and attempts to attain more pleasure, achievements, successes, and pride are all stories of emotional and social attachments. Emotional detachment helps the senior individual to free himself/herself from the clutches of emotionality and underlying attachment. In fact, the gero-transcendent individual experiences a redefinition of time, space, life, death, and the self, being engaged in the process of emotional detachment. Gero-transcendence involves a change in the perspective of looking at life from a materialistic and pragmatic view to a much broader, more cosmic, and transcendent one in perceiving the world at large. The cosmic dimension is reflected by means of the gradual shift from egoism to altruism which is noteworthy at this juncture along with the development of a generative self. The senior detached self enjoys the bliss of solitude, being liberated from the strings of attachment.
