Lecture 10 - Successful aging Flashcards
What are the 3 interactive components of successful aging?
Absence of disease & disability, maintaining high cognitive & physical function, and active “engagement with life”
What are the flaws with the Rowe & Kahn model?
Overly normative (doesn’t include people that don’t meet the criterion such as people in wheelchairs), fails to take into account sociocultural factors, doesn’t take into account subjective meanings, & criteria aren’t well specified in the model
What is active aging?
Optimizing opportunities for health, participation, & security to enhance quality of life as people age
What is active & healthy aging?
Maximizing
opportunities
related to health,
participation, and
safety in order to
improve quality of
life
What are the factors of active aging?
Economic determinants, gender, health & social services, behavioral determinants, personal determinants, culture, physical environments, & social determinants
What did the survey of health, aging, & retirement in Europe (SHARE)?
Wanted to expand the concept of successful aging of Rowe & Kahn
Measured the absence of major disease diagnoses, or limitations in daily activities, high levels of cognitive and physical functioning
and social engagement
Expanded the assessment of active & healthy (AHA) by including more criteria like physical, mental, & social well-being
Includes both objective & subjective assessments
Why is cognitive ability importance?
Crucial for adapting to challenges of daily life & many people think of it as a fundamental part of their identity
What is successful cognitive aging?
Cognitive performance above average for an individual’s age group
What are superagers?
People that are over 80 with episodic memory that is comparable to or better than middle-aged adults
What are the aspects of successful cognitive aging?
Higher cortical thickness, greater brain plasticity, higher white matter density, faster encoding, “super-aging” phenotype, & improved network connectivity
What is positive psychology?
Perspective that is intended to give a better understanding of the pros & virtues that allow people & communities to thrive
What is life satisfaction?
Overall assessment of someone’s feelings & attitudes about their life at a specific point in time
What is subjective well-being?
Individual’s sense of happiness
What is the paradox of well-being?
People might experience high subjective well-being despite facing challenges in their life
What is the social indicator model of well-being?
Perspective that demographic (age, gender, etc.) & social structural (like social class, etc.) variables account for individual differences in levels of well-being too
Why do older adults see and interpret situations differently
than younger adults?
Coping skills, grew up in a different time when expectations for life were different from
those of younger generations, & survival effect
What is set-point perspective?
Subjective well-being reflects one’s personality traits
An association between subjective well-being and longevity is not
supported by research
What is an age friendly environment?
Allows people of all ages to participate in their communities, treat everyone with respect, regardless of age, making it easier for older people to maintain their social connections & helps people maintain their health & activity even at the oldest ages
What is communicative ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA)?
Proposes that the way older adults communicate about aging influences the way they feel about aging and, ultimately, their actual ability to age successfully
Express?
What is creativity?
Ability to gencrate products or idcas that are orginal, appropriate, and
nave an imbact on others
Characterized by originality and appropriateness
What is Big C creativity?
Renowned artists, who continue to produce celebrated works well into their later years
What is little C creativity?
What is mini C creativity?
What is greater creativity in adulthood associated with?
Greater cognitive reserve
What personality trait supports creativity?
Openness to experience
What is creativity in adulthood associated with?
Greater cognitive reserve
What are the benefits of having the openness to experience trait?
Linked with reduced mortality
What is the Planck hypothesis?
The tendency of peak scientific
broducuvity to occur in early adulthood
What did Dean Simonton propose?
Proposed a mathematical model to examine age & creativity that controls for individual differences
What is Simonton’s mathematical model?
Creative potential + # of ideas + ability to turn ideas into products = creative output
What is career age?
The age where an individual begins to embark on his or her career
What does Simonton’s model not control for?
Early death
What are equal odds?
Positive relationship between quality and quantity of work produced
What is Blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory?
Proposal that true creativity requires producing a large number of ideas in rial-and-error fashion, the best (most creative) of which will remain in tho
wake of all the failed ones
What is old age style?
special quality common to the work of older artists and writers
• Approach to one’s creative work that eliminates the fine details and instead presents the works intended meaning
What are negative features of last works?
More pessimistic view of life, sense of isolation, choice of tragic themes, and feeling imminent departure
What are positive features of last works?
More expressive, less realistic, accumulation of symbolism, more freedom in use of paint strokes, and richer in meaning
What was Lindauer study on?
examined whether undergraduate students
could discriminate between pairs of images from artists at younger and older ages and had them rate which were completed in late life
Two-thirds of the students were able to make the correct identifications
• Style differences, age and detail
What is a swan song?
The last burst of creativity of an older musician
• Simplistic, lacks detail and distractions
‘ No rehable evidence has been shown to support the existence ol
swan song
What is lastingness?
*Ihe qually of an older arist’s work that allows it to persist over umo
Shift in the prionities work of academics and scientists output
with age
What are some benefits of creativity?
serve to increase feelings of subjective well-being
•Creative older adults are “ase busters
How can creativity be expressed daily?
cooking, crafts, gardening, etc.
