Active Ageing: Mapping of Scientific Coverage

Active Ageing to Gerotranscendence.

Introduction Ageing, old age and death have piqued the interest of philosophers and writers since antiquity. Confucius related ageing to maturity and wisdom,1 while Shakespeare described it as a “second childhood”.2 Cicero, perhaps with premonitions of his own demise, viewed death with fondness in a metaphor, likening it to a ship approaching a harbour.3 Confronted by ageing demographics, Singa...

Older people and 'active ageing': Subjective aspects of ageing actively.

Following a critical overview of the active ageing concept, a thematic decomposition of 42 transcribed interviews with British people aged 72 years and over indicates that active ageing is understood in relation to physical, cognitive, psychological and social factors, but that these co-exist in complex combinations. The notion of activity in active ageing is grasped in relation to an active/pa...

On Active and Healthy Ageing

SECOND WORLD ASSEMBLY ON AGEING A strategy for active ageing

This article argues that a strategy of active ageing, by linking the key policy domains of employment, pensions, retirement, health and citizenship, provides a sound basis for industrialized countries to respond to the challenges presented by population ageing. The article outlines the genesis of the concept of active ageing and the principles that should be embodied in a modernized, comprehens...

Perceptions of active ageing in Britain

Objective: to identify perceptions of, and associations with, active ageing among ethnically diverse and homogeneous samples of older people in Britain. Design and setting: cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys of older people living at home in Britain. Measures: active ageing, health, psych-social, socio-economic circumstances, and indicators of quality of life. Results: respondents defined...