ReviewClinical interventions in aging2016
Successful aging: considering non-biomedical constructs.
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- Quo Vadis Gerotranscendence? A Systematic Literature Network Analysis of Existing Themes and Emerging Trends in Gerotranscendence Theory with a Focus on International Applications.Journal of religion and health · 2025Pooled it
- Religion's Influence on Successful Aging: Mediating Mechanisms of Life Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Brazil.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Study protocol for applying flourishing to healthy aging: a cross-cultural exploration of older adults' lived experiences and experts' perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- But Is Ageing Really All Bad? Conceptualising Positive Ageing.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Call for Integrated Approaches in Digital Technology Design for Aging and Disability.The Gerontologist · 2025Review
- Successful sexual aging: conceptualization and Bi-Country (Croatia and Germany) measure validation.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Understanding entangled human-technology-world relations: use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults.Information research · 2025Article
- How Does Successful Aging Apply to Black Women? A Latent Class Analysis.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- What Does It Mean to Successfully Age?: Multinational Study of Older Adults' Perceptions.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Frailty index in the Colonias of the Rio Grande Valley: health related quality of life and resilience.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- A behavioural activation intervention to increase engagement with life and wellbeing in older adults: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Mental well-being among the oldest old: revisiting the model of healthy ageing in a Finnish context.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2020Article
- Psychosocial Resources for Hedonic Balance, Life Satisfaction and Happiness in the Elderly: A Path Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Healthy aging through the lens of community-based practitioners: a focus group study.BMC geriatrics · 2020Article
- The Sense of Coherence, Self-Perception of Aging and the Occurrence of Depression Among the Participants of the University of the Third Age Depending on Socio-Demographic Factors.Clinical interventions in aging · 2020Article
- Does fitness attenuate the relationship between changes in sitting time and health-related quality of life over time in community-dwelling older adults? Evidence from the EXERNET multicenter longitudinal study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Successful aging, change in sexual interest and sexual satisfaction in couples from four European Countries.European journal of ageing · 2019Article
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- Determinants of Successful Aging in a Cohort of Filipino Women.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Successful Aging and Frailty: A Systematic Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
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Abstract
objectivesSuccessful aging continues to be applied in a variety of contexts and is defined using a number of different constructs. Although previous reviews highlight the multidimensionality of successful aging, a few have focused exclusively on non-biomedical factors, as was done here.
methodsThis scoping review searched Ovid Medline database for peer-reviewed English-language articles published between 2006 and 2015, offering a model of successful aging and involving research with older adults.
resultsSeventy-two articles were reviewed. Thirty-five articles met the inclusion criteria. Common non-biomedical constructs associated with successful aging included engagement, optimism and/or positive attitude, resilience, spirituality and/or religiosity, self-efficacy and/or self-esteem, and gerotranscendence. DISCUSSION: Successful aging is a complex process best described using a multidimensional model. Given that the majority of elders will experience illness and/or disease during the life course, public health initiatives that promote successful aging need to employ non-biomedical constructs, facilitating the inclusion of elders living with disease and/or disability.
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