New Frontiers in the Future of Aging: From Successful Aging of the Young Old to the Dilemmas of the Fourth Age

By P. Baltes, Jacqui Smith. Gerontology, 2003

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “While everyone copes with change across their lives, for those in their third and fourth ages psychosocial processes and individual needs, though variable, may offer some common awareness of issues relating to autonomy, choice, vulnerability and mortality (Baltes and Smith, 2003), all of which may i”
The aging self : shifting from promoting gains to balancing losses (2005, background): “For very old age, this negative view appears to be empirically supported (Baltes & Smith, 2003).”
Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: from striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses. (2006, background): “Age-related changes in cognitive and physical functioning are examples of these increasingly negative changes with advancing age (Baltes & Smith, 2003, 2004; Cleary, Zaborski, & Ayanian, 2004; Schaie, 2005).”
To Volunteer or Not (2015, background): “In later life, physical limitations become more commonly experienced (e.g., Baltes & Smith, 2003), potentially restricting volunteer engagement (Hank & Erlinghagen, 2009; Komp, van Tilburg, & van Groenou, 2012).”
Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2008, background): “First, with increasing age, adults— and, in particular, older adults—face more and more resources losses caused by declining health and cognitive functioning, retirement, and death of loved ones (Baltes & Smith, 2003).”
I'll keep you in mind: the intimacy function of autobiographical memory (2007, background): “It is true that the gains usually outweigh the losses in childhood, and that there are limits to gains, especially in very late life (Baltes & Smith, 2003).”
The power of music in the lives of older adults (2013, background): “In contrast, the stereotype of the Fourth Age is one of a period of disengagement and dependency, involving physical and mental decline, and a decrease in subjective well-being (Baltes & Smith, 2003; Smith, 2003).”
Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany (2010, background): “19 References: Baltes, M.M. & Smith, J. (2003). New Frontiers in the Future of Aging: From Successful Aging of the Young Old to the Dilemma of the Fourth Age.”
Cognition in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE): The First 10 Years (2004, background): “Specifically, and together with a few others studies of this sort (Bäckman, this issue; for review, see Bäckman et al., 2000), BASE has helped to extend our knowledge about cognitive aging into the very old segment of the elderly population, or the Fourth Age (Baltes & Smith, 1999, 2003; Singer et”