Promoting Successful Aging

Caprara, María Giovanna; Ruvalcaba, Neyda Ma Mendoza

doi:10.1017/9781316677018.029

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“…to the biological and social aging changes, in the sense conveyed by Caprara and Mendoza-Ruvalcaba [2]. These questions represent interesting avenues for future research.…”

Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 90%

“…Human aging is one of the major societal challenges in the 21 st century. Aging is a multidirectional, multidimensional, and multicausal process that reflects biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences, which act in distinct combinations throughout the life-span [1,2]. Each individual has an inherent potential to change and to develop reserve capacity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Caprara and Mendoza-Ruvalcaba [2], promoting successful aging requires making people acknowledge the harmful effects of unhealthy habits and adopt new habits (physical activity). Optimal cognitive functioning can be achieved through life learning and engagement in activities that enhance memory, judgment, and problem-solving activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal

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Objectives Human aging is a multidirectional, multidimensional, and multicausal process that reflects biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences, which act in distinct combinations throughout the life-span. Proactivity towards avoiding the usual aging process is needed. This study analyses the long-term effects of participation in Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being. Method A sample of 150 community-dwelling participants enrolled in Community-Based Programs, aged 55 to 84 years and living in three Portuguese localities were matched by age (55–64, 65–74, 75–84 years), gender, and locality with a comparison group of non-participants. We administered a multidimensional gerontological protocol which included socio-demographic information, measures of health/disease, functional ability, social network, cognitive performance and psychological well-being. Hierarchical regression models were used to test the effects of Community-Based Programs on psychological well-being adjusting for remaining variables. Results Overall, psychological well-being is positively associated with household income and satisfaction with health. Nevertheless, in participants, psychological well-being builds predominantly upon social network and is not associated with a moderate inability or cognitive deficits, contrasting with psychological well-being in non-participants. After adjusting for background variables, psychological well-being was positively associated with health satisfaction and social network and negatively related to moderate inability. Further, a significant interaction of participation in Community-Based Programs with age, points out higher levels of psychological well-being in participants contrasting with a downward trend in non-participants. After stratification by age, psychological well-being increases with time attending Community-Based Programs in the oldest (75–84 years) contrasting with the remainder. Conclusions Participation in Community-Based Programs may improve the negative effects of the aging process on psychological well-being. This positive effect as age increases may be linked to a reinforcement of social network, valued more by participants in Community-Based Programs. Furthermore, the programs may act as a healing/maintenance strategy in persons with moderate inability and/or cognitive deficits.

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“…to the biological and social aging changes, in the sense conveyed by Caprara and Mendoza-Ruvalcaba [2]. These questions represent interesting avenues for future research.…”

Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…In order to promote and increase active or successful aging, several intervention programs have been developed, most of which have been tested by researchers and academics, while political efforts at different levels have also been planned by national and international organizations. Researchers have recently reviewed the programs which have been evaluated so far and emphasized that those which were more multidimensional and took psycho-behavioral actions into account yielded better results [16][17][18][19]. Examples of programming developed within the active aging framework include the "I am Active" program, addressing the domains of physical activity, nutrition, cognitive performance, and quality of life among adults 60 years and above [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

Active Aging for L.I.F.E.: An Intergenerational Program for Addressing and Changing Attitudes Toward Longevity

Roberts,

Clare,

Balasubramanian

et al. 2023

OBM Geriatr

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The global population of adults 65 years of age and older will increase dramatically over the next several decades, presenting economic and social challenges requiring sustainable solutions. Aging is a process in which everyone is already involved, it is a lifelong experience not just a later life occurrence. Changing world demographics illustrate that people are living longer, among the world’s young people, survival to age 80 is expected to be commonplace. This new found “longevity dividend” needs to be maximized and enjoyed. Increased longevity and worldwide aging are constantly in the public view, yet preparing people for this long life has received little attention. People need to be prepared to live a long life in an aging world and one way to achieve this is through aging education. Aging education across the lifespan can prepare people for the long life ahead of them, promote aging with optimism, and combat ageism. This paper reports on the Active Aging for L.I.F.E. four-part education program which was shared with 91 high school students. The program brought the domains of Longevity, Independence, Fitness and Engagement to the high school students through an intergenerational team of older adults and college age students, using an experimental design to test the outcomes in student perceptions of their own longevity in the context of the L.I.F.E. programming. The treatment group findings showed that the students perceptions about aging and longevity were impacted. In addition, written responses reflected the value of the programming through participant understanding of the impact of lifestyle, diet and social interaction on successful aging through the lifespan.

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“…This idea is supported not only by psychology and gerontology but also new research in neuroscience, supporting the new concept of neurogenesis; in other words, neural or cognitive plasticity remains in old age; new neurons as well as new synaptic connections can grow in old brains [133,154,155], and cognitive functioning can thus be improved. SOC has inspired cognitive training as well as most of the program for promoting active, healthy or successful aging over the last thirty years, with very good results (see [156].…”

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Cognition in Healthy Aging

Sánchez‐Izquierdo

Fernández-Ballesteros

2021

IJERPH

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The study of cognitive change across a life span, both in pathological and healthy samples, has been heavily influenced by developments in cognitive psychology as a theoretical paradigm, neuropsychology and other bio-medical fields; this alongside the increase in new longitudinal and cohort designs, complemented in the last decades by the evaluation of experimental interventions. Here, a review of aging databases was conducted, looking for the most relevant studies carried out on cognitive functioning in healthy older adults. The aim was to review not only longitudinal, cross-sectional or cohort studies, but also by intervention program evaluations. The most important studies, searching for long-term patterns of stability and change of cognitive measures across a life span and in old age, have shown a great range of inter-individual variability in cognitive functioning changes attributed to age. Furthermore, intellectual functioning in healthy individuals seems to decline rather late in life, if ever, as shown in longitudinal studies where age-related decline of cognitive functioning occurs later in life than indicated by cross-sectional studies. The longitudinal evidence and experimental trials have shown the benefits of aerobic physical exercise and an intellectually engaged lifestyle, suggesting that bio-psycho-socioenvironmental factors concurrently with age predict or determine both positive or negative change or stability in cognition in later life.

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Promoting Successful Aging

Cited by 5 publications

References 41 publications

Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal

Engagement with life and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Findings from community-based programs in Portugal

Active Aging for L.I.F.E.: An Intergenerational Program for Addressing and Changing Attitudes Toward Longevity

Cognition in Healthy Aging

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