Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics Carl Eisdorfer Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics Springer Publishing Company New York 334pp. H/B $34.95
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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. licence. www.econstor.eu If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. Even after major negative life events, most people often quickly adapt and return to their characteristic levels (Brickman & Campbell, 1971), and such 'set-points' are typically positive rather than neutral or negative (see Diener, Lucas, & Scollon, 2006). In this chapter, we review recent and ongoing endeavors that highlight the utility of focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture of well-being does not necessarily prevail. Drawing from notions of terminal decline, we argue that the changes in well-being that occur late in life provide a venue for the examination of between-person disparities and the factors that contribute to them. In a first step, we review empirical evidence to suggest that such steep end-of-life declines in well-being and psychological health may indee...
Late-Life Decline in Well-Being Across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine how long this period lasts. In all three nations and across the adult age range, well-being was relatively stable over age, but declined rapidly with impending death. Articulating notions of terminal decline associated with impending death, we identified prototypical transition points in each study between three and five years prior to death, after which normative rates of decline steepened by a factor of three or more. The findings suggest that mortality-related mechanisms drive late-life changes in wellbeing and highlight the need for further refinement of psychological concepts about how and when late-life declines in psychosocial functioning prototypically begin. KeywordsSelective mortality; successful aging; differential aging; psychosocial factors; well-being; multiphase growth model Publisher's Disclaimer: The following manuscript is the final accepted manuscript. It has not been subjected to the final copyediting, fact-checking, and proofreading required for formal publication. It is not the definitive, publisher-authenticated version. The American Psychological Association and its Council of Editors disclaim any responsibility or liabilities for errors or omissions of this manuscript version, any version derived from this manuscript by NIH, or other third parties. The published version is available at www.apa.org/pubs/journals/PAG NIH Public Access Empirical evidence indicates that individuals throughout adulthood and old age typically report being satisfied with their lives (see Diener et al., 2006). The objective of this study is to corroborate and extend recent studies that challenge this prevailing view (Gerstorf, Ram et al., 2008a,b;Mroczek & Spiro, 2005). Drawing from notions of terminal decline, we argue that individuals usually have enough resources to maintain a sense of well-being, even in the face of age-related risks for social losses and declining health (Guralnik, 1991;Suzman et al., 1992). At some point before death, however, additional mortality-related burdens and systemic dysfunction may become too difficult to cope with and functionality declines straight into death (Kleemeier, 1962;Riegel & Riegel, 1972). Despite these notions having been around for several decades, specific conceptual predictions and empirical descriptions regarding if and how terminal decline involves well-being have not yet been developed. Our purpose here is to use longitudinal data from three nationally representative samples to ask two questions about terminal decline in well-being: Do normative late-life changes in well-being across the adult life span conform to a pattern expected by terminal decline? If so, when does terminal decline prototypically begin?Theories of self-regulation and lifespan development b...
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