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Adapting to aging losses
— do resources facilitate strategies of selection, compensation and optimization in everyday functioning? | | Author(s) | Frieder R Lang, Nina Rieckmann, Margret M Baltes |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 6, November 2002 |
| Pages | pp P501-P509 |
| Keywords | Mental ageing ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Longitudinal surveys ; Germany. |
| Annotation | Previous cross-sectional research has shown that older people who are rich in sensorimotor-cognitive and social-personality resources are better functioning in everyday life and exhibit fewer negative age differences than those who are "resource-poor". These findings are examined using 4-year longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE), and which also compare cross-sectional indicators of adaptive everyday functioning of survivors and non-survivors. Apart from their high survival rate, resource-rich older people invest more social time with their family members, reduce the diversity of activities within the most salient leisure domain, sleep more often and longer during the day, and increase the variability of time investments across activities after 4 years. Overall, findings suggest that older people who are resource-rich make greater use of selection, compensation, and optimisation strategies in everyday functioning, compared to those who are resource-poor. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021216259 A |
| Classmark | D6: CA: C4: 3J: 767 |
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