| Abstract: |  | | | The age and being old are commonly associated with the image of the man who walks or reached the end of his life.
In fact, today, improving the quality of living conditions and hygiene, the evolution of medical disciplines and scientific ones, allowed to significantly extend the life prospects, turning what was the final phase of existence, in often a period of nearly twenty years' duration.
In this period, the action of changes in status or social behaviors and the onset of disease, could make the man a "person without a personality." The attitude of
society in respect of the 'old age' than in the past has, in recent decades, changed, altering the ratio of individuals with their own traditions and culture of belonging, leaving an empty man "identity."
The emergence of New Age practices, so fashionable gathered legions of followers, is the expression of the need to bridge this gap, finding ancestral signs of their existence.
Man, post-modern view of the whole, however, is committed in the search for deep roots, so remote as to escape, at times, even the memory of the living. Old age in today
is very different from that of the past and should therefore be divided into two distinct periods, that of "seniority" in which man is an active and present in the community of belonging, and that of the 'advanced old age "in which, Because of the onset of illness or disabling event, the person is deprived of the opportunity to take active roles in society.
In the latter condition and especially if in need of care and no longer self-sufficient, the old is removed from having to be the guardian of experiences and values, because it no longer considered capable of transmitting and teach their knowledge and converted so subject to 'social' to 'object' of social concern.
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