Abstract
This article examines the psychosocial issues of the elderly which social workers may deal with in direct practice. In the first section, the author discusses reasons why Erikson's theory of human growth is important to understand the elderly's need properly. The second section clearifies, on the one hand, what life review/reminiscence method is, and shows, on the other, how the practice of this method meets the elderly's needs. In the final section, the author suggests that there are gender differences in focusing developmental stage (s) in life review/reminiscence processes especially when we take into account the particularity of women's psychology.
