Successful Aging for Women
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چکیده
We are no longer concerned just with living through our third decade but with how we are living through our sixth, seventh, and eighth. For many of us, physical survival is no longer the primary issue and attention has turned to the quality and nature of that survival, to patterns of development, and to what comprises successful aging. To be concerned with such issues is a luxury as there are still many in day's world for whom "successful aging" continues to mean physical survival. Certainly, physical growth and health also are of concern today in North America, especially as we become more cognizant of the interactive process of aging; but in addition, social scientists study and describe aging in psychological, and increasingly psycho-social and sociological terms.
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