A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, Marcus Richards, Yoav Ben-Shlomo (eds).

A Life Course Approach to Healthy Ageing.

Developmental aspects of a life course approach to healthy ageing.

We examine the mechanistic basis and wider implications of adopting a developmental perspective on human ageing. Previous models of ageing have concentrated on its genetic basis, or the detrimental effects of accumulated damage, but also have raised issues about whether ageing can be viewed as adaptive itself, or is a consequence of other adaptive processes, for example if maintenance and repai...

A life-course approach to healthy ageing: maintaining physical capability

Research on healthy ageing lacks an agreed conceptual framework and has not adequately taken into account the growing evidence that social and biological factors from early life onwards affect later health. We conceptualise healthy ageing within a life-course framework, separating healthy biological ageing (in terms of optimal physical and cognitive functioning, delaying the onset of chronic di...

A life-course approach to fertility

BACKGROUND The life-course approach as a methodological framework for the empirical analysis of longitudinal individual-level data has fundamentally changed the agenda of demographic research. However, these methodological innovations have not been paralleled by a similarly successful theoretical integration in the life-course field. OBJECTIVE We aim to show that the life course is an indispens...

A latent variable approach to executive control in healthy ageing.

It is a well-established finding that the central executive is fractionated in at least three separable component processes: Updating, Shifting, and Inhibition of information (Miyake et al., 2000). However, the fractionation of the central executive among the elderly has been less well explored, and Miyake's et al. latent structure has not yet been integrated with other models that propose addi...