PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Cardiovascular Disease, Dysthymia, Human Musculoskeletal System
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In recent decades, research on the health and function of aging persons has tended to focus on the prediction of negative outcomes such as disability, dependency, morbidity, and mortality or to be based on samples limited to frail individuals. Aging has sometimes been defined as a progressive functional decline or a gradual deterioration of physiological function with age associated with inevitable, and irreversible age-related process of loss of viability and increase in vulnerability. In the 20th century, this optimistic perspective has found a new expression in the term successful aging. It is therefore necessary to specifically outline what these underlying assumptions are and to recognize their limitations. In 1998, rowe and kahn identified 3 components of successful aging that included the absence of disease, maintenance of high cognitive and physical function and an active engagement with life. The model is hierarchical in that having good health would enable having the other two.
