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| Prospective predictors of successful aging in community-residing and institutionalized Canadian elderly | | Author(s) | Gary T Reker |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 27, no 1, Winter 2001-02 |
| Pages | pp 42-64 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Quality of life ; Mental health [elderly] ; Death ; Attitude ; Living in the community ; Care homes ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Multiple hierarchical regression is used to examine the relative contributions of existential variables (purpose in life, religiousness, and death acceptance) and traditional resource measures (social resources, intellectual competence, and cognitive competence) as predictors of successful ageing for community-living or institutionalised older people. Baseline successful ageing, social resources, purpose in life, and low religiousness predicted successful ageing in older people living in the community 14 months later. For institutionalised older people, baseline successful ageing, social resources, purpose in life, and being male gender predicted successful ageing. Intellectual and cognitive competence and death acceptance failed to account for significant variance in successful ageing, although the latter approached significance in those living in the community. In both samples, the existential variable of purpose in life accounted for unique variance in successful ageing over and above that accounted for by demographic, baseline successful ageing, and traditional predictors. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020806214 A |
| Classmark | BG: F:59: D: CW: DP: K4: KW: 3J: 7S |
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