Welcome to Senior Esteem!
Ladies and gentlemen: Welcome to Senior Esteem!
Our goal is to raise the self-esteem of senior citizens, and to raise their esteem in the eyes of “junior citizens,” meaning all their younger colleagues.
If it’s a joke, a program, a respectful caretaker or a skillful counselor, it all adds up to one goal: Light up a lifetime!
Raising the spirit of a senior citizen is to light up 65+ years of life!
This is not just a beautiful message; it is IMPORTANT. A little bit of research shows how widespread the problem of waning self-esteem is, and how serious it is.
In a professional study[1] of self-esteem among senior citizens between ages sixty and eighty , 36% of the age 70-80 group was diagnosed as suffering from low self-esteem (measured according to the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale).[2] Here are some quotes from the conclusions of that study:
“This study confirms the links between self-esteem, anxiety, and depression in the elderly.”
“According to Alaphilippe, self-esteem is an indicator of mental health, personality maturity, and adaptive capacity. Thus, low self-esteem is closely linked to low life satisfaction, loneliness, depression, and anxiety.”
Although low self-esteem would probably cause anybody problems, elderly or not, unfortunately it seems that many people have a decline specifically in old age.
From another study: “The self-esteem of older adults shows a degree of general decline compared with that of young adults.”[3]
It’s going to take a lot of more blogs to explain why this happens. No two people are exactly alike, but there are many common phenomena all lead to the same bottom line; loss of self esteem.
But wait a minute? If this problem is so common and widespread among the elderly, shouldn’t someone have started tackling this subject a while ago? Take a look at the next blog to find out what’s been done until now.
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[1] Essid N, Anes I. Low Self-Esteem in Older Adults and Associated Factors: A Descriptive and Analytical Study. Journal of Psychiatry and Psychological Disorders. Vol. 4 Issue 2, (2025). DOI: 10.58489/2836-3558/033.
[2] This scale consists of answers to ten questions asked to the subject about how he feels about himself. The subject’s answers are tallied to a score between 10 and 40. A score under 30 is considered low self-esteem. It was first described in Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton University Press. The questions and way to calculate the score at presented simply at https://socy.umd.edu/about-us/using-rosenberg-self-esteem-scale .
[3] Chen, Jing, Kangjia Zheng, Weihai Xia, Qi Wang, Zongqing Liao, and Yutong Zheng. “Does inside equal outside? Relations between older adults’ implicit and explicit aging attitudes and self-esteem.” Frontiers in psychology 9 (2018): 2313.