What is successful ageing and who should define it?

By Ann Bowling, Paul A. Dieppe. British medical journal, 2005

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“I've been independent for so damn long!”: Independence, masculinity and aging in a help seeking context (2007, background): “This included avoiding health services where men were likely to feel threatened or alienated (Britten, 1995), resulting in the majority of interviews being conducted at the homes of our participants.”
Sport Participation and Happiness Among Older Adults: A Mediating Role of Social Capital (2020, background): “2005; Pan 2018), and quality of life (Bowling and Dieppe 2005; Chen et al.”
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “Higgs and Rees-Jones draw on Bourdieu’s conceptualisation of habitus, the life-long dialectic between ‘disposition and position’ through which individuals set limitations on their perception of choices and settle on a position.”
Aging Successfully: A Four-Factor Model (2011, methodology): “Summarizing from available literature, Bowling and Dieppe (2005) identified the three most examined factors that researchers use to define successful aging: physical health, psychological well-being, and plenty of social activity.”