Successful Aging

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Chapter 14

• Successful Aging

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theoretical perspectives on successful
agingMacArthur Foundation Study
High physical and cognitive functioning
Absence of disease
Maintain engagement with life
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theoretical perspectives on successful aging
paradox of well-being

• Social Indicator Model
• Older should have LOWER well-being
• Instead, they have HIGHER well-being

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Subjective Well-Being

• Subjective Well-Being
• Positive Affect
• Negative Affect
• Life Satisfaction
• Set Point Perspective

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theoretical perspectives on successful aging
possible ways to achieve high well-being

• Adaptation
• Progress toward goals
• Coping strategies
• Social comparison
• Create a positive life story

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Creativity

• Creativity
• Lehmans study peak of productivity is prior to
  age 40

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Creativity, cont

• Dennis study
• A new peak around age 77
• Problems

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Simontons Model of Age and Creative Productivity

• 3 Assumptions
• creative potential
• 2-step process
• Ideation
• Elaboration
• career age

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productivity and creativity Simontons model of
age and creative productivity
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productivity and creativity Simontons model of
age and creative productivity

• Equal Odds Rule
• Later life productivity
• High creative potential
• Longer span for highly creative
• possibility of highly creative older people

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productivity and creativitycharacteristics of
last works
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successful agingfinal perspectives

• Older adults can achieve new forms of creative
  expression
• Creative potential may have genetic basis
• Supportive environment is needed
• Ordinary adults can create personal narratives