PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Positive Psychology, Psychological Resilience, World Health Organization
20 Apr 2016
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Class notes - successful aging chapter 14. Absence of disease and disability: unclear, high cognitive and physical functioning, overly focused on health. Lacking psychological traits (e. g. , spirituality: doesn"t take social context into account. A longitudinal investigation of adults ages 51 and older. Developed a successful aging measure incorporating the criteria of: no major disease no limitation in activities of daily living. Ability to perform a variety of tasks (e. g. , walk a block) and a telephone-based assessment of cognitive functioning. Hrs measures were assessed over 4 times from 1998 2004. Participants of the hrs sample who met all four criteria for successful aging decreased during the six years of the study from about 12% to 11% from the first until the fourth time period. Roughly half of the sample met the criteria for successful aging across the entire 6-year period in terms of. World health organization model of the determinants of active aging.
