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This essay offers a summary of personal wellbeing and describes its relationship with sociodemographic parameters and other relevant quality of life (QoL) domains, as well as its association with Active Ageing (AA ). Based on a positive and holistic viewpoint, AA is constructed around four pillars (health , lifelong learning , participation , and security ) and interacting determinants that indicate whether a person is experiencing an AA with good QoL (WHO 2002; ILC-BR 2015). In this paradigm, QoL is structured as an outcome measure of AA. Based on the seminal conceptualization of AA , the Active Ageing Index (AAI ) has been designed to identify the level of AA in Europe (Zaidi et al. 2013). As an indicator of QoL , the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI ) has been developed to...
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Rojo-Perez, F., Fernandez-Mayoralas, G., Rodriguez-Rodriguez, V. (2021). Active Ageing and Personal Wellbeing Among Older Adults in Spain. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_4001-3
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