Bringing Successful Aging Theories to Occupational Practice: Is Selective Optimization With Compensation Trainable?

Increased Responsiveness to Novelty is Associated with Successful Cognitive Aging

The animal literature suggests that exposure to more complex, novel environments promotes neurogenesis and cognitive performance in older animals. Studies in humans indicate that participation in intellectually stimulating activities may serve as a buffer against mental decline and help to sustain cognitive abilities. Here, we show that across old adults, increased responsiveness to novel event...

Successful aging as management of resources: The role of selection, optimization, and compensation

One of the central tenets of life-span psychology is that the process of development entails gains and losses that occur over the entire life span. Thus, Paul and Margret Baltes (1990) conceptualized successful aging as a lifelong process of maximizing gains and minimizing losses by means of three processes: selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC). This article reviews empirical studies...

Successful Aging at Work: Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of Selection, Optimization and Compensation Questionnaire

Citation: Segura-Camacho A, Rodríguez-Cifuentes F, Sáenz De la Torre LC and Topa G (2018) Successful Aging at Work: Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of Selection, Optimization and Compensation Questionnaire. Front. Psychol. 9:410. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00410 Successful Aging at Work: Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of Selection, Optimization and Compensation Quest...

Successful aging: is there hope?

Successful Aging Under Religious Believes

The purpose of this article is to review investigate the relation between religion and religion belief with successful aging (mental health). Depression and anxiety is obvious among age's successful aging and religion is defined. The role of religion in successful aging is showed. The vocabulary of successful aging suggested by ballets and ballets in 1990. Airport divided two tendency of religi...