O SEGREDO DA SABEDORIA DO "VELH® CONSISTE EM DESFRUTAR A VELHICE

Abstract

This paper summarizes and comments lhe last Skinner's book, wrote for non-prof essionals, about a program of self-management in old age. Enjoy old age dependes of making environmental and behavioral changes appropriated to this age, in order to arrange a balance between their gains and tosses. The program facuses mainly on stimulus control practices designed to improve the motivation to keep busy, the management oj deficits on the sensorial, motor, cogni­ tive, affective and social domains in aged person's behavior, which affect their interaction with their physical and social environment.