New Frontiers in Resilient Aging

Corey. L. M Keyes

ISBN 10: 0521509858 / ISBN 13: 9780521509855

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A typically pessimistic view of aging is that it leads to a steady decline in physical and mental abilities. In this volume leading gerontologists and geriatric researchers explore the immense potential of older adults to overcome the challenges of old age and pursue active lives with renewed vitality. The contributors believe that resilience capacities diminishing with old age is a misconception and argue that individuals may successfully capitalize on their existing resources, skills and cognitive processes in order to achieve new learning, continuing growth, and enhanced life-satisfaction. By identifying useful psychological resources such as social connectedness, personal engagement and commitment, openness to new experiences, social support and sustained cognitive activity, the authors present a balanced picture of resilient aging. Older adults, while coping with adversity and losses, can be helped to maintain a complementary focus on psychological strengths, positive emotions, and regenerative capacities to achieve continued growth and healthy longevity.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Frontiers in Resilient Aging
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521509858
• ISBN 13: 9780521509855
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 25D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 711 grams

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Synopsis

A typically pessimistic view of aging is that it leads to a steady decline in physical and mental abilities. In this volume leading gerontologists and geriatric researchers explore the immense potential of older adults to overcome the challenges of old age and pursue active lives with renewed vitality. The contributors believe that resilience capacities diminishing with old age is a misconception and argue that individuals may successfully capitalize on their existing resources, skills and cognitive processes in order to achieve new learning, continuing growth, and enhanced life-satisfaction. By identifying useful psychological resources such as social connectedness, personal engagement and commitment, openness to new experiences, social support and sustained cognitive activity, the authors present a balanced picture of resilient aging. Older adults, while coping with adversity and losses, can be helped to maintain a complementary focus on psychological strengths, positive emotions, and regenerative capacities to achieve continued growth and healthy longevity.

About the Author

Prem S. Fry is Research Professor in the Graduate Psychology Program of Trinity Western University, British Columbia.
Corey L. M. Keyes is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University, Atlanta.