Successful aging: psychosocial aspects
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https://doi.org/10.25118/2763-9037.2011.v1.977Keywords:
aging, elderlyAbstract
Since the publication of the influential article written by Rowe and Kahn, in 1987, in the journal Science, the concept of successful aging has been re-discussed. These authors suggested that healthy aging would be characterized by a low probability of illness or disability, excellent cognitive and functional capacity, and sustained social engagement. This concept has been criticized by several authors, among other reasons, for not including the positive acquisitions of aging (eg, resignation, resilience), as well as socio-cultural differences in the health-disease concept (Minkler and Fadem 2002; Torres, 2004). Among the numerous factors potentially related to successful aging, it was up to us to present recent research papers that discussed the importance of psychological aspects associated with it, or the preventive strategies that could be adopted to prevent symptoms or mental illnesses from collaborating with pathological aging. Consulting the MEDLINE database, from 1994 to 2071, we found 115 articles, using the keywords “aged”, “successful aging”, “epidemiology”, “psychopathology”, and “depression”. Of this total, the most relevant and current articles were selected as a source of data for this review.
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