[Time factors and lack of motivation in the elderly]

The time-being experienced by the elderly is analyzed through different nosologic frameworks. The older depressive person is haunted by the unpermanency of life whereas the unmotivated elder persons gives himself over to mortification. In dementia, the present time being, even unnatural seems to be the only working reference; but it is source of despair for it refers to an impossible imaginary, source of resignation for it is without pleasure and without any gratifying support for tomorrow. This insistence on the present focuses on a personal and familial will mechanism of time fixing in order to avoid the crisis and to refuse any risk in changing.