PREDICTORS AND BENEFITS OF OLD AGE WISDOM

Wisdom and life satisfaction in old age.

According to previous research findings, objective life conditions such as physical health, socioeconomic status, financial situation, the physical environment, and social involvement cannot fully explain the well-being of older persons. Instead, personality characteristics and developmental influences appear to have a stronger impact. This study combines personality and individual development ...

Interrogating the age-old wisdom of exercise.

W e have long known that exercise is good for us. Hippocrates declared more than 25 centuries ago that " if we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. " There is now a wealth of evidence indicating that the benefits of physical activity extend across multiple organ systems and span t...

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Old-Age Insurance Benefits, 1955

with respect to the proportion of oldage assistance recipients receiving old-age and survivors insurance. As the coverage of the insurance Program becomes virtually universal, this proportion will no doubt aPpreach loo percent. It will never reach it, however, because many individuals at the lowest economic levels (low-income farmers and migratory and occasional farm and domestic workers) will ...

The getting of wisdom: theory of mind in old age.

Theory of mind, the ability to attribute mental states, has been little explored beyond the early school years. Yet, later development, including possible patterns of breakdown, has important implications for current debate concerning the modularity/domain-specificity of the cognitive and neurological systems underlying theory of mind. This article reports a first study of theory of mind in nor...