This book discusses the reworkings and resolutions in old age of those earlier conflicts which arise throughout the life cycle. The elderly subjects described by the authors were involved in the Guidance Study, an investigation of families begun in Berkeley sixty years ago. Erik Erikson participated in the study in the 1940's. He prepared summaries of the first decade of life and of the family milieus of fifty children. The surviving parents of the fifty children seen then were selected for the present study. They now range in age from their seventies through their nineties.