Health Sciences 3701A/B Chapter 14: What is Optimal Aging

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Opimal aging is more than just good health; it must include noions of adult development as well. Use opimal aging instead of successful aging to avoid connotaions of compeiion that the word success brings and lead people to believe there is only one way to age successfully. Erikson thought his stages were never fully resolved but rather coninually revisited. So no one is either integrated or despairing in late life. The struggle to resolve these issues begins anew with each new challenge. Opimal aging implies that there may be diferent ways of aging well, people start with diferent coniguraions, resources that afect how we age, it unfolds by the choices we make. Ways to measure opimal aging: (one-dimensional) longevity, avoidance of paricular illness, self- reported health-more complex models are needed. Everyone ages diferent so models for opimal aging must be muli-dimensional. Models of aging are teleological (specify a desirable outcome or goal)

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