“…However, in several studies, it was also recognized that to uphold a positive outlook, one needed to accept one's situation and come to terms with declining abilities to be able to make use of realistic opportunities [34,38,43,44,47]. Tis process was not always easy or linear, meaning that the older adults had also developed strategies for consciously choosing to foster social participation [36, 38, 40, 41, 44-47, 49, 50] by regulating their emotions to reach acceptance [40,49] and to remain positive [38,39,41,43,46]. Tis regulation could mean that the older adults from time to time needed to have delimited outlets of negative emotions.…”