Thomas R. Cole’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America
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June 1993

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199 Citations

Journal of American History

Richard Wightman Fox

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Thomas R. Cole

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... While the active aging model has been operationalized into specific actionable components [17], there is no measurement framework beyond a list of activities that people could or should do to remain active and thus to achieve well-being. As emphasized by thought leaders on aging in the 1990s, "Aging is not a problem to be solved rather a mystery to be lived", [19] and "the strong modern bias toward medicalizing the problem of aging needs forcefully to be fought" [20]. ...

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Measuring what matters to older persons for active living: part I content development for the OPAL measure across four countries
The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America
  • Citing Article
  • June 1993

Journal of American History