Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1. Integrating Personality and Relationship Science to Explain Physical and Mental Health (Hannah Brazeau) -- Chapter 2. Aging with Purpose: Developmental Changes and Benefits of Purpose in Life Throughout the Lifespan (Gabrielle N. Pfund) -- Chapter 3. Personality Disorders and Disordered Aging: Personality Pathology as Risk Factors for Unhealthy Aging (Patrick J. Cruitt) -- Chapter 4. Affective Aging on Different Time-Scales (Marko Katana) -- Chapter 5. Coordinated Data Analysis: A New Method for the Study of Personality and Health (Sara J. Weston) -- Chapter 6. Using Ambulatory Assessments to Understand Personality-Health Associations (Joshua J. Jackson) -- Chapter 7. Sounds of Healthy Aging: Assessing Everyday Social and Cognitive Activity from Ecologically Sampled Ambient Audio Data (Burcu Demiray) -- Chapter 8. Exploring the Role of Mobility and Personality for Healthy Aging (Michelle Pasquale Fillekes) -- Chapter 9. Promoting Cognitive, Physical, and Social Activities for Healthy Aging by Targeting Personality (Damaris Aschwanden) -- Chapter 10. Personality and Cognitive Health in Aging (Brennan R. Payne) -- Chapter 11. A Lifespan Perspective on the Interconnections between Personality, Health, and Optimal Aging (Daniel K. Mroczek).

Life review -- The formative years -- A professional apprentice -- Forging Washington connections -- Butler at the National Institute of Aging -- Expanding the scope of geriatrics -- Recasting the new gerontology through the international longevity center -- America's aging visionary.

Front Matter -- Reviewers -- Contents -- Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nutrition Issues of Concern in the Community -- 3 Transitional Care and Beyond -- 4 Transition to Community Care: Models and Opportunities -- 5 Successful Intervention Models in the Community Setting -- 6 Research Gaps -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: Moderator and Speaker Biographical Sketches -- Appendix C: Workshop Attendees -- Appendix D: Abbreviations and Acronyms.

Abstract
Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption–saving paradox, increase in expenditure on healthcare, and most importantly, social capital among the developing countries. Furthermore, there is a likely challenge of old age security in terms of income and expenditure due to increasing healthcare costs and low earning incentives at older ages. India currently has the second largest population globally, with >9% of its population accounting for aging. Based on the multidimensional aging index (AI) using the latest longitudinal survey data of older adults in India, we examined the possible challenges of the economics of aging in India while examining the economic health and social outcomes of the elderly. Our results found that the elderly in India are highly exposed to negative impacts due to vulnerability in socio-economic and health spheres of life. Low labor force participation, lack of skills, and low literacy are the prevalent challenges faced by the elderly Indian population, particularly women. Similarly, the fiscal challenges include increased income tax and insurance coverage for the elderly, while health challenges imply a greater proportion of the disabled and multi-morbid, leading to more burden on the health and welfare system of India. Thus, given the possible short- and long-term effects of aging on the path of economic growth in India, policy incentives are required to minimize the impact and avert the burden of population aging in the country.

Healthy aging and physical activity practice: The missing link
Isabelle J. Dionne, PhD, Professor, Université de Sherbrooke, walks us through physical activity practice and how it impacts research on healthy aging. Major public health agencies around the world urge the older population to get on the move while cities and states invest more and more in safe and attractive infrastructures and programs. Nonetheless, physical activity (PA) levels of aging adults remain low in most developed societies. It appears that the healthcare systems and the general public do not take advantage of the skills and competencies of qualified PA professionals trained in universities around the globe to support evidence- based physical activity practice and healthy aging. This weakest link needs reinforcement.

"This book provides a public health perspective of aging, based on the five social determinants of health. These determinants form the framework for these chapters, as they outline a lifespan approach to healthy aging. This book is for practitioners and public health professionals who work with older adult populations"--

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Defining a problem -- What is a substance use problem? -- What is a mental health problem? -- What is problem gambling? -- What are concurrent disorders? -- The continuum of severity -- Recognizing problems -- Aging can increase vulnerability to problems -- Ageism and other forms of stigma -- Ageism and other forms of stigma create barriers -- Diversity -- Gender -- Disability -- Sexual orientation and gender identity -- Ethnocultural groups -- Problems are complex -- 2 Improving our response -- The evolution of care

AbstractAlthough social and intellectual engagement have been consistently associated with late-life functioning, rather than true causation, these associations may reflect the experiential choices of high functioning individuals (i.e., selection effects). We investigated the association of social activity with late-life physical functioning, cognitive functioning, and depression symptomatology using data from 1112 pairs of like-sex twins who participated in the Longitudinal Study of Aging Danish Twins. Consistent with previous research, we found that social activity was significantly correlated with overall level of physical functioning, cognitive functioning, and depression symptomatology. We also found that social activity was significantly and moderately heritable (estimate of .36), raising the possibility that its association with late-life functioning might reflect selection processes. Further, social activity did not predict change in functioning and in monozygotic twin pairs discordant on level of social activity, the more socially active twin was not less susceptible to age decreases in physical and cognitive functioning and increases in depression symptomatology than the less socially active twin. These results are interpreted in the context of the additional finding that nonshared environmental factors, although apparently not social activity, are the predominant determinant of changes in late-life functioning.