Erik Homberger Erikson

The Eriksons returned to the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Both worked at Mt. Zion Hospital. Again after 10 years, they shifted to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Finally, in 1981, he undertook with Joan Erikson and Helen Kivnick an intensive study of 29 octogenarians. These people were the parents of children studied in the Guidance Study at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. The results of this research were published in Vital Involvement in Old Age.

After leading a full and fulfilling life for 92 years, Erik Homberger Erikson breathed his last on May 12, 1994 at Harwich, Massachusetts. His wife, Joan Erikson, died in 1997.