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La oferta de actividades para personas mayores ha estado ligada en las últimas décadas a oportunidades de aprendizaje, remarcándose así la importancia de la formación para el desarrollo personal a lo largo de todo el ciclo vital. Nuestro objetivo es revisar si esta visión se replica también en la población general, estudiando con metodología cualit...
The aim of this study is to validate the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) in a representative multi-ethnic sample of older Chilean adults, 71% of whom are indigenous (aymara and mapuche).
Introduction
The main goal of the present study was to examine the stereotype content model (SCM) assumption for universality and to test whether the mediating role of cultural views about older adult caregivers is maintained in other health care contexts.
Methods
One hundred and sixty professionals and volunteers who worked with older adults in d...
Family and community social networks act as social resources that promote well-being at advanced ages. In this study, we analyze the association between social support received from personal social networks (social support from various family members and friends) and community social networks (social support from neighbors and the neighborhood, age...
Introduction: Scientific research has slowly been incorporating the factors that influence the process of ageing. Among them, gender has been considered a cross determinant which may affect all other factors of Active Ageing (World Health Organization, 2002). This paper provides a review of the role of gender on ageing well.
Material and methods: A...
Background:
There is a broad semantic network of aging stereotypes; where different concepts and their measurement are confused: personal stereotypes, self-stereotypes and self-perception of aging.
Method:
First, we analyze the translated version of the Image of Aging Scale (IAS) measurement model through exploratory and confirmatory factor anal...
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine, from the stereotype content model (SCM) perspective, the role of the competence and warmth stereotypes of older adults held by professional caregivers.
Methods
A quasi-experimental design, ex post facto with observational analyses, was used in this study. The cultural view on competence and warmth w...
Active aging is one of the terms in the semantic network of aging well, together with others such as successful, productive, competent aging. All allude to the new paradigm in gerontology, whereby aging is considered from a positive perspective. Most authors in the field agree active aging is a multidimensional concept, embracing health, physical a...
University Programs for Older Adults (Programas Universitarios para Adultos Mayores or PUMAs) have been developed throughout the world as an outcome of two worldwide policies: Life Long Learning (LLL) and Active Aging as a priority direction (UN, 2002). According to these policies, older persons should become full participants in the development pr...
“Aging well” is a common expression used by lay people as synonymous with a set of verbal labels emerging from scientific literature attributed to a positive trajectory of aging—healthy, successful, competent, optimal, vital, active, or productive aging. These terms
with tightly semantic relations conform to a semantic network. This chapter provide...
Throughout history, formal education has been “age-based,” in the sense that primary, secondary, further, and higher education have been planned and implemented with the main objective of preparing citizens for working life. However, gerontological research on cognitive plasticity in the latter half of the 20th century provided evidence of learning...
The main goal of the present study is to examine to what extent age and cognitive impairment contribute to learning performance (cognitive plasticity, cognitive modifiability, or learning potential). To address this question, participants coming from four studies (Longitudinal Study of Active Aging, age range, 55-75 years, N = 458; Longitudinal Stu...
IntroductionThe aim of this study was to analyse whether the activity is a protective factor of intellectual decline, and specifically to examine whether intellectual activity versus other activities, is a better predictor for the maintenance of cognitive functioning in a group of people over 90 years, independent in basic daily living activities a...
The aim of this study was to analyse whether the activity is a protective factor of intellectual decline, and specifically to examine whether intellectual activity versus other activities, is a better predictor for the maintenance of cognitive functioning in a group of people over 90 years, independent in basic daily living activities and having pr...
It is commonly assumed that older adults are "unproductive" as soon as they retire and begin receiving a pension from the social security system, as occurs in most European countries. This article deals with the concept of unpaid work and social productivity, on the basis of data collected in the base line of the Estudio Longitudinal sobre Envejeci...
In the Anglo-Saxon scientific literature, successful aging has been consolidated during the last four decades. Nevertheless, several terms have been used as synonymous: healthy, active, productive, optimal, positive aging. Although, all these terms have been described through a broad set of bio-psycho-social factors, usually, research in this field...
Attrition is one of the most important threats for longitudinal studies on aging mainly due to refusal and mortality. This study deals with those individuals who were assessed in the base line of 90+ project but died, dropped out or were examined in the follow-up. Participants of the 90+ project baseline consist of a sample of 188 older than 90 yea...
En la literatura científi ca anglosajona, envejecimiento con éxito es un término que ha ido consolidándose en los últimos años, al mismo tiempo que ha ido adoptando distintas denominaciones: «envejecimiento activo», «productivo», «saludable», «óptimo» o «positivo». A pesar de que estos conceptos han sido descritos mediante factores bio-psicosociale...
