Successful aging.

By M. Mezey, T. Fulmer. The American Journal of Nursing, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Positive Development in Adolescence: The Development and Role of Intentional Self-Regulation (2008, background): “…means to optimization, such as practice, but in contrast to optimization, compensation actions are aimed at counteracting or avoiding losses in the face of a loss of goal-relevant means, rather than at approaching positive states [Freund & Baltes, 2002; Freund & Riediger, 2003; Wiese et al., 2000].”
Older Adults' Views of “Successful Aging”—How Do They Compare with Researchers' Definitions? (2004, background): “Remaining in good health until close to death.(2,6,8,12) 92.”
Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2008, background): “In this article, I argue that the management of resources can be understood best when three interrelated processes are taken into account, namely, selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC; Baltes & Baltes, 1990; Freund, Li, & Baltes, 1999; Freund & Riediger, 2001, 2003).”
Reproducing and Resisting the Master Narrative of Decline (2001, methodology): “For example, scores of popular texts, with titles like Successful Aging (Rowe & Kahn, 1998), intimate that lifestyle and attitude, both of which are ultimately the enterprising individual’s responsibility, are more important than sociopolitical circumstances or genes in determining how well one ages”
The association between activity and wellbeing in later life: what really matters? (2006, background): “Engagement in activity was among the first identified correlates of successful ageing (Havighurst and Albrecht 1953) and persists as a major wellbeing predictor in recent gerontological thought (Rowe and Kahn 1997).”
Promoting Community Wellbeing: The Case for Lifelong Learning for Older Adults (2014, background): “” First proposed by Rowe and Kahn in a 1997 article followed by a popular book of the same title in 1998, successful aging consists of three factors: avoidance of disease and disability, maintenance of high physical and cognitive functioning, and sustained engagement in social and productive activit”
Measuring active and healthy ageing in Europe (2017, background): “…addition to paid work, in their definition of ‘successful ageing’, Rowe and Kahn (1987) make a distinction between ‘usual’ and ‘successful’ ageing and emphasize the importance of ‘physical and cognitive functioning’ and older people who are ‘socially and productively engaged’ (Rowe and Kahn, 1997).”
Older Golfers: Serious Leisure and Successful Aging (2003, background): “This qualitative study investigates the premise that serious leisure supports successful aging (Rowe & Kahn, 1997).”
Expanding, Reducing, Concentrating and Diffusing: Post Retirement Leisure Behavior and Life Satisfaction (2007, background): “This study supported activity theory (Havighurst, 1963).”
Sex, stress and the hippocampus: allostasis, allostatic load and the aging process. (2002, background): “Individual differences in the aging process can be conceptualized as an accumulation of wear and tear of daily experiences and major life stressors which interact with the genetic constitution and predisposing early life experiences[52,164,175] .”
Learning in Later Life: What Seniors Want in a Learning Experience (2008, background): “Older adults can learn new things, and they learn them very well (Rowe & Kahn, 1998).”
Having More by Doing Less: The Paradox of Leisure Constraints in Later Life (2008, background): “Other researchers addressing successful aging put emphasis on functional good health and personal investment (Rowe & Kahn, 1998) or social integration (Phelan & Larson, 2002).”
The benefits of and constraints to participation in seniors’ online communities (2014, background): “…supported by the fact that seniors’ online communities offer both enjoyable leisure activity and an expanded social network, which are the two key factors in explaining the well-being of older adults and successful ageing (e.g. Antonucci & Akiyama, 1991; Gabriel & Bowling, 2004; Rowe & Kahn, 1998).”
Aging Successfully: A Four-Factor Model (2011, methodology): “The finding was supported by the findings of other researchers (Chou & Chi, 2002; Lin, 2006; Rowe & Kahn, 1987, 1998; Kahng, 2008).”