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Rethinking social relationships in old age: Digitalization and the social lives of older adults.
American Psychologist, 2020Interactions with technology have been shaping human society since its beginning. Recently, digitalization has pervaded all aspects of our lives and provided us with new ways to communicate with our social contacts and develop new social ties. We address
G. Hülür, Birthe Macdonald
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1973
To the Editor.— The EDITORIAL, "How to Grow Old Without Aging" (224:1289, 1973), considers the possible factors that have resulted in persons reaching unusual ages in some remote communities in the world. One factor that strikes me as being of possible importance is the very remoteness of these areas and the probable lack of much medical care for the ...
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To the Editor.— The EDITORIAL, "How to Grow Old Without Aging" (224:1289, 1973), considers the possible factors that have resulted in persons reaching unusual ages in some remote communities in the world. One factor that strikes me as being of possible importance is the very remoteness of these areas and the probable lack of much medical care for the ...
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Age Stereotypes in Middle-Aged through Old-Old Adults
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010The primary goal of the study was to compare adult age groups on aging bias, with measures of knowledge of aging in the physical, psychological, and social domains and life satisfaction. The study sample, consisting of 752 men and women, 40 to 95 years of age, was tested using Neugarten, Havighurst, and Tobin's (1961) Life Satisfaction Index (LSI) and
Neil Carter, Davis, Douglas, Friedrich
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1976
ABSTRACT: One hundred old people (age range 60–94 years) were studied with respect to the state of their emotions. The chief factors leading to emotional sterility were loneliness, retirement and decline in sensory and locomotory functions.
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ABSTRACT: One hundred old people (age range 60–94 years) were studied with respect to the state of their emotions. The chief factors leading to emotional sterility were loneliness, retirement and decline in sensory and locomotory functions.
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2009
This chapter presents trends in childlessness over the course of the twentieth century. It also provides a review of the antecedents and consequences of childlessness among older adults. Childlessness has only recently started to figure prominently on the research agenda of the social sciences.
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This chapter presents trends in childlessness over the course of the twentieth century. It also provides a review of the antecedents and consequences of childlessness among older adults. Childlessness has only recently started to figure prominently on the research agenda of the social sciences.
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Predictors of frailty in old age–results of a longitudinal study
The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2015ObjectivesTo investigate time-dependent predictors of frailty in old age longitudinally.DesignPopulation-based prospective cohort study.SettingElderly individuals were recruited via GP offices at six study centers in Germany.
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2021
This chapter examines the legal and social responses to old age. It considers the competing images of “active ageing” and “vulnerable older people”. It considers the legal response to age discrimination and elder abuse and the assumptions around old which underpin them.
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This chapter examines the legal and social responses to old age. It considers the competing images of “active ageing” and “vulnerable older people”. It considers the legal response to age discrimination and elder abuse and the assumptions around old which underpin them.
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1998
Abstract Just as the jackal, even when it is young, is calledjarasigala [the ageing fox], and just as the galoci creeper, even when it is tender is called piitilata [the putrefying creeper], in the same way [the human body], even on the day of its birth, even when it is golden-hued, is [described as] perishable because it is [potentially]
John Ross Carter, Mahinda Palihawadana
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Abstract Just as the jackal, even when it is young, is calledjarasigala [the ageing fox], and just as the galoci creeper, even when it is tender is called piitilata [the putrefying creeper], in the same way [the human body], even on the day of its birth, even when it is golden-hued, is [described as] perishable because it is [potentially]
John Ross Carter, Mahinda Palihawadana
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