Older people and ‘active ageing’: Subjective aspects of ageing actively

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...

British HIV and ageing study. HIV and ageing: older people with HIV, who are they?

Objectives The life expectancy of HIV positive individuals has improved dramatically with the advent of HAART. The cohort of older people living with HIV is steadily increasing in size. Both advancing age and HIV are associated with an increased likelihood of comorbidities and polypharmacy independently, but little is known about their combined impact and how this will shape the care required f...

Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing.

Subjective wellbeing and health are closely linked to age. Three aspects of subjective wellbeing can be distinguished-evaluative wellbeing (or life satisfaction), hedonic wellbeing (feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and pain), and eudemonic wellbeing (sense of purpose and meaning in life). We review recent advances in the specialty of psychological wellbeing, and present new analys...

Drug use and ageing: older people do take drugs!

While usually perceived as behaviour of the young, use of illicit drugs by people aged 50 and over is increasing in Europe and the USA. This increase largely reflects the ageing of general populations, and people who use drugs continuing to do so as they age. For those people dependent upon drugs [usually users of opiates (heroin) and stimulants (cocaine, crack cocaine and amphetamine)], the la...

Well-being of Older People in Ageing Societies