Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age

This paper examines the contributions that generativity in older age may make to the concept of successful ageing. To this end, two perspectives on successful ageing are described: successful ageing as a set of clinical criteria, and successful ageing as the application of adaptive processes aimed a...

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Autor: Villar Posada, Feliciano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/44303
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Palabra clave:Envelliment
Psicologia de la vellesa
Aging
Older people psychology
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spelling Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older ageVillar Posada, FelicianoEnvellimentPsicologia de la vellesaAgingOlder people psychologyThis paper examines the contributions that generativity in older age may make to the concept of successful ageing. To this end, two perspectives on successful ageing are described: successful ageing as a set of clinical criteria, and successful ageing as the application of adaptive processes aimed at achieving efficient functioning. After showing the limitations of the first perspective, particularly from a developmental point of view, the paper argues that the adaptive version of successful ageing helps to put ageing into a developmental frame, but needs to be complemented by identifying specific content and goals that guide these adaptive processes and establish new feasible gains for older people. Generativity in older age could play that role and provides a conceptual framework that enriches the concept of successful ageing, both by emphasising the social context in which people age and by highlighting a personal growth component.Cambridge University Press2012info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/44303Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000973Ageing & Society, 2012, vol. 32, num. 7, p. 1087-1105http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000973(c) Cambridge University Press, 2012info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/443032026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
spellingShingle Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
Villar Posada, Feliciano
Envelliment
Psicologia de la vellesa
Aging
Older people psychology
title_short Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
title_full Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
title_fullStr Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
title_full_unstemmed Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
title_sort Successful ageing and development: the contribution of generativity in older age
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Villar Posada, Feliciano
author Villar Posada, Feliciano
author_facet Villar Posada, Feliciano
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Envelliment
Psicologia de la vellesa
Aging
Older people psychology
topic Envelliment
Psicologia de la vellesa
Aging
Older people psychology
description This paper examines the contributions that generativity in older age may make to the concept of successful ageing. To this end, two perspectives on successful ageing are described: successful ageing as a set of clinical criteria, and successful ageing as the application of adaptive processes aimed at achieving efficient functioning. After showing the limitations of the first perspective, particularly from a developmental point of view, the paper argues that the adaptive version of successful ageing helps to put ageing into a developmental frame, but needs to be complemented by identifying specific content and goals that guide these adaptive processes and establish new feasible gains for older people. Generativity in older age could play that role and provides a conceptual framework that enriches the concept of successful ageing, both by emphasising the social context in which people age and by highlighting a personal growth component.
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Ageing & Society, 2012, vol. 32, num. 7, p. 1087-1105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000973
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