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New frontiers in resilient aging
— life-strengths and well-being in later life | | Author(s) | Prem S Fry, Correy L M Keyes |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010 |
| Pages | 365 pp |
| Source | Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge, CB2 8RU. http://www.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Well being ; Physical capacity ; Self esteem ; Adjustment. |
| Annotation | A typically pessimistic view of ageing is that it leads to a steady decline in physical and mental abilities. Some leading gerontologists and geriatric researchers explore older people's [potential to overcome the challenges of old age and to pursue active lives. The contributors believe that the idea of resilience diminishing with age is a misconception. They argue that individuals may successfully capitalise on their existing resources, skills and cognitive processes in order to achieve new learning, continuing growth, and enhanced life-satisfaction. By identifying useful psychological resources such as social connectedness, personal engagement and commitment, openness to new experiences, social support and sustained cognitive activity, the authors present a balanced picture of resilient ageing. While coping with adversity and losses, older people can be helped to maintain a focus on psychological strengths, positive emotions, and regenerative capacities to achieve continued growth and healthy longevity. Thus, the common conception of aging as 'decline' is dispelled, and is replaced with a vision of ageing as a period of continual growth and enrichment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120723006 B |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: BI: DPA: DR |
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