1.Disengagement theory is the natural withdrawel of older adults from the society."aging is the mutual,inevitable withdrawel of older citizens from the society they are belongs to".
2.The thery is by two social scientists Elaine cumming and Warren Earl Henry 1961-in their book Growing old.
3.The theory holds greater challenges of older population.
The loneliness they feel is due to the social withdrawel.But the theory got critisism because the theory states the change is inevitable,innate and natural like a universal law.
The situation can be chaged by the caring people around the older citizens without leaving them loneley.
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