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Validation of an integrative multidimensional model of successful aging in community-dwelling older adults: what is successful aging all about?
The concept of successful aging has raised much debate and intrigued researchers for over four decades. However, a consensus regarding its definition...
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Processing speed and working memory are predicted by components of successful aging: a HUNT study
BackgroundResearch has demonstrated that cognitive heterogeneity occurs with aging both within and between individuals. The purpose of this study was...
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Lifestyle Factors and Successful Cognitive Aging in Older Adults
The majority of older adults express a desire to age successfully. Over the past decade, there has been an increased focus on understanding the...
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Sciences of Aging and Anti-aging in Modernity
This chapter focuses on the sciences of aging. For biomedicine perceives of aging as a pathological problem tied to discourses of decline and...
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Aging, Disability, and Caregiving
Rapid population aging is a global phenomenon that is also accompanied by increased disability rates. These increased disability rates pose social...
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Theorizing Aging: Sociological Approaches
In this chapter, we move on from the biomedical model that espoused growing old would primarily be a process of inevitable physical and mental...
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Power, Gender, and Aging
Physical changes (e.g., in health or attractiveness), changes in financial and social status (e.g., retirement), and ageist stereotypes (e.g.,...
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Enhancing Foreign Language Learning Approaches to Promote Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the best approaches to teaching a foreign language to older people to help them achieve the desired...
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Self-Compassion and Positive Aging
Older adulthood presents newfound joys and freedom, as well as simultaneous changes to health, social roles, and identity. Some people can embrace...
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Aging and Shame: Mutual Transformation and the Virtues
What bearing do virtues have on how feelings of shame influence the emotional well-being, mental health, sense of purpose and social relationships of...
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How to Age More Positively? Analyzing Determinants that Shape Attitudes Towards Aging
A considerable amount of research has illustrated that negative attitudes toward one’s own aging can directly hinder mental and physical well-being...
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The relationship between the digital literacy and healthy aging of the elderly in Korea
The purpose of this study is to verify the relationship between the level of use of information and communication technology and healthy aging of the...
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Retirement is not the end of the road: Essentialist beliefs about aging moderate the association between future time perspective and retirement adjustment
Objective : The present study aims to investigate whether changes in future time perspective could influence individual’s retirement process and...
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Improving preclinical to clinical translation of cognitive function for aging-related disorders: the utility of comprehensive touchscreen testing batteries in common marmosets
Concerns about poor animal to human translation have come increasingly to the fore, in particular with regards to cognitive improvements in rodent...
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Promoting Postsecondary Educational Success Among Young Parents in and Aging Out of Foster Care
This paper explains why more attention should be paid to promoting the postsecondary education of parents in and aging out of foster care. It reviews...
