Psychosocial Factors in Aging

Is the relationship between subjective age, depressive symptoms and activities of daily living bidirectional?

“…Subjective age or self-perceived age is an important feature of later life, since it is relevant to appraisals of health and physical limitations, satisfaction with aging, cognitive fitness and wellbeing (Larzelere et al, 2011). Discrepancies between chronological age and subjective age are often wider in older age than earlier in life (Kastenbaum et al, 1972;Kotter-Grühn et al, 2009) and most older adults feel younger than their chronological age (Hughes et al, 2013;Rubin and Berntsen, 2006).…”

Percepciones de un grupo de epidemiólogos en formación acerca de su propia vejez

“…Las primeras expresiones sobre envejecimiento exitoso, estaban más ligadas al concepto biomédico de ausencia de enfermedad, sin embargo, los participantes, refirieron «la importancia de hacerse exámenes médicos como medida preventiva». No obstante, la investigación en envejecimiento activo ha revelado que este concepto va más allá de no estar enfermo, y se ha encontrado varios predictores multidominio, como variables psicológicas, intelectuales, de personalidad y motivacionales (21), que fueron mencionadas por algunos participantes, como preparación psicológica para enfrentar crisis de ciclo de vida de la senectud, y preparación académica permanente como factor protector de deterioro cognitivo (22), solidez e independencia económica y la espiritualidad como factor protector, y se ha demostrado que esta última se relaciona con hábitos de vida saludable (23).…”

Later life civic engagement of elderly in Ahwaz -Iran

“…The connection within social participation, civic engagement, and aging is referred as active aging and aged friendly-city as well. Active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age and recently, it has turned as a common reliable concept in literatures and research in the field of Social Gerontology (35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42). In an agefriendly city, policies, services, settings and structures support and enable people to age actively by:…”

“…That means the increasing dependency of aged citizens on their society for basic needs accompanied the growth of their own social participation. The variables such as fatalism, a sense of belonging to one's city, health status, and a sense of satisfaction of urban services have more significant relationships with civic engagement of ageing (38)(39). Thus the data indicated that there is no significant relationship between civic engagement and religiosity and did not show any difference between religiosity and social participation (19)(20)(21)(22).…”