One out of every eight Americans is sixty-five years of age or older. Studies show that by 2018, older adults will out number children under the age of five for the first time in history. Two things have caused the growth in older adults: the increased life expectancy for the older adult and the fertility of the United States population. Everyone is going to age and get old, but in society today the aging process is put off for as long as possible. Age is no longer embraced as wisdom and a right of passage. Instead, you are written off by society and sometimes treated with little to no respect. If everyone has to get old, why doesn’t everyone embrace it? This paper will discuss how Douglas Ainslie, a character from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, copes with abrupt changes in his life and how he embraces old age in order to establish a better quality of life for himself.
Douglas is married to Jean Ainslie and is a retired older adult. The movie introduces this couple…show more content… His failed attempt shows that he is trying to understand the culture of the market and shows that he is engaged in understanding how the market works in India. Afterwards, he and Evelyn go to India’s version of a plumber in order to get a leaking faucet fixed. He decides to fix the faucet himself even though he has never fixed anything before. Surprisingly he fixes the faucet and this makes him so excited, because even he had doubted himself. If he had still been in England, he probably would not have been inclined to fix the faucet himself. Fixing the faucet shows his willingness to engage in his life so that he can increase his quality of life. An argument against the theory is that it doesn’t acknowledge the constraints of physical, social, and economic resources that an older adult may have. However, Douglas and his wife were broke and he still made the most of his experience, which gives value to the next