Successful Aging and Its Discontents: A Systematic Review of the Social Gerontology Literature

Martinson, Marty; Berridge, Clara

doi:10.1093/geront/gnu037

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“…The study results show different associations between positive mental health and individual and social factors relative to age grouping. Such findings support the heterogeneity of the elderly population, a focus that requires service providers to understand varied life courses influenced by context (Bülow & Söderquvist, 2014;Martinson & Berridge, 2015). Members of the interdisciplinary team who offer services to support the positive mental health of seniors are best positioned with an understanding of age-specific differences.…”

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Protecting the mental health of Ontario seniors

Montgomery

Nangia

Mossy

et al. 2017

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Background: Chronic disease management has been the emphasis of research with elderly populations. Building upon this work, there is a need to examine protective practices and supports for the mental health of older adults. There are no Canadian empirical studies that examine those factors in relation to positive mental health. Aim: This study identified associations between protective factors and self-rated mental health for senior, community-dwelling Ontarians. Methods: A secondary analysis was undertaken to examine a subset of variables from the population-based Canadian Community Health Survey (2012) data. Statistical analysis correlated a range of extracted individual, social, and environmental variables for two major age groups of Ontarian seniors (N = 6,121), those aged 65 to 79, and those 80 years and older. Results: Positive mental health was significantly associated with marital status, co-habilitation, income, perceived health, life stress, and health behaviours. This grouping of personal and social characteristics lost significance for positive mental health among seniors aged 80 years and older. Regardless of the seniors’ age, flourishing mental health was predicated upon physical activity, positive self-rated physical health, and finally, limited life stress. Conclusion: Based on provincial data, trends in self-rated positive mental health suggest that key factors ought to be integrated into the delivery of coordinated and interdisciplinary services to protect the mental health of seniors.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Protecting the mental health of Ontario seniors

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Nangia

Mossy

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“…The specific lines of theoretical work we are drawing on will be apparent from the literature we cite throughout. 4 See, for example, the special issue of The Gerontologist in 2014 (volume 55, issue #1) which was devoted to critical commentary on the concept of successful aging including [5][6][7][8].…”

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“…He was our Superman growing up". 7 As the father is assumed to be´lost´to dementia by the time of the sisters' future weddings, the staged wedding photos with him become a reparative device, an attempt to restore a lost future and reinforce the generativity disrupted by dementia. If dementia is assumed to cause unhappiness and an unwanted future, the enactment of the hetero-happiness epitomized in weddings becomes a way to enable successful aging in spite of illness/disability.…”

Section: Repairing the Future?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Queering Aging Futures

Sandberg

Marshall

2017

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This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a 'queering' of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen to adhere to some bodies and subjectivities over others. Drawing on feminist, queer, and crip theories, we build on existing critiques of 'successful aging' to interrogate the assumptions of heteronormativity, able-bodiedness and able-mindedness that shape the dividing lines between success and failure in aging, and which inform attempts to 'repair' damaged futures. Conclusions suggest that recognizing diversity in successful aging futures is important in shaping responses to the challenges of aging societies, and presents an opportunity for critical cultural gerontology to join with its theoretical allies in imagining more inclusive alternatives.

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“…Confronting an individual with age and adapting to age is very variable, so the rate of successful aging is also different. Successful aging is an expression which means greater flexibility [1] and is associated with the well-being and ability to adapt to the changes that age brings [2].…”

Section: Pielęgniarstwo XXI Wiekumentioning

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Connection between psychological holistic factor and life satisfaction in old age – propensity score methods

Kaučič

Filej

Ovsenik

2017

Pielegniarstwo XXI Wieku / Nursing in the 21st Century

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Introduction. Holism has been poorly researched in the field of health and social gerontology. The old man is a whole, therefore he needs a holistic treatment. It means that we consider his bio-psycho-social and spiritual needs. The purpose of the research is to determine the relationship of a psychological holistic factor with life satisfaction in old age.Material and methods. For the needs of the research work, a quantitative research method was used. A simple random sample was selected from the statistical set. The survey included 1064 elderly people in Slovenia (65 years and over) in ten statistical regions living in the domestic (n=532) and institutional (n=532). Environment. Sample realization was 61.6 % (656 correct questionnaires). According to demographic data, the survey involved 470 (71.6%) women and 186 (28.4%) men. The average age of the respondent was 78.2 years. The data was analyzed with the R MICE package. The analysis of causal effects and conditional associations advanced statistical methods, i.e. propensity score methods, and a questionnaire as a structured measurement instrument were used.Results. Obtained research results imply a scientific contribution in the field of quality management of people in old age and their life quality. On the basis of statistical calculations, the hypothesis that the psychological holistic factor (R2=0.21) is related to life satisfaction in old age is confirmed. We proved that indexes: social networks (R2=0.176), positive emotions (R2=0.366), loneliness (R2=0.151), cognitive abilities (R2=0.162) studied within a psychological holistic factor affect life satisfaction.Discussion and conclusion. Research confirmed that within the psychological factor, the most intimately related to life satisfaction is the emotional index, followed by the index of social networks, cognitive abilities and the last index of loneliness. For the holistic treatment of old man, in which the psychological factor is the only one of the four holistic factors, both structural and process changes are required for achievement of better outcomes, in our case, higher levels of satisfaction with life in old age.

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Successful Aging and Its Discontents: A Systematic Review of the Social Gerontology Literature

Cited by 372 publications

References 69 publications

Protecting the mental health of Ontario seniors

Protecting the mental health of Ontario seniors

Queering Aging Futures

Connection between psychological holistic factor and life satisfaction in old age – propensity score methods

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