Trial reportThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Population Priorities for Successful Aging: A Randomized Vignette Experiment.
Trial report in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Clarifying healthy aging: building a common language for policy innovation within the Age-It Research Program.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Polyphenols, aging, and health: What can we expect from the food industry in the technology era?Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Definitions of Ageing According to the Perspective of the Psychology of Ageing: A Scoping Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Using a Factorial Survey to Estimate the Relative Importance of Well-Being Dimensions According to Older People: Insights From a Repeated Survey Experiment in Flanders.Innovation in aging · 2022Article
- Community-Based Peer-Led Intervention for Healthy Ageing and Evaluation of the 'HAPPY' Program.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesAging populations have led to increasing interest in "successful aging" but there is no consensus as to what this entails. We aimed to understand the relative importance to the general population of six commonly-used successful aging dimensions (disease, disability, physical functioning, cognitive functioning, interpersonal engagement, and productive engagement).
methodTwo thousand and ten British men and women were shown vignettes describing an older person with randomly determined favorable/unfavorable outcomes for each dimension and asked to score (0-10) how successfully the person was aging.
resultsVignettes with favorable successful aging dimensions were given higher mean scores than those with unfavorable dimensions. The dimensions given greatest importance were cognitive function (difference [95% confidence interval {CI}] in mean scores: 1.20 [1.11, 1.30]) and disability (1.18 [1.08, 1.27]), while disease (0.73 [0.64, 0.82]) and productive engagement (0.58 [0.49, 0.66]) were given the least importance. Older respondents gave increasingly greater relative importance to physical function, cognitive function, and productive engagement. DISCUSSION: Successful aging definitions that focus on disease do not reflect the views of the population in general and older people in particular. Practitioners and policy makers should be aware of older people's priorities for aging and understand how these differ from their own.
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