Abstract Objectives Because End of life (EOL) is becoming an increasingly long life stage,
this paper aims to describe the delineation of EOL by reviewing studies which examine (a) …

Objective: to identify and synthesize studies that approach the co** strategies used by the
elderly to deal with aging and death. Method: an integrative review was performed in seven …

Empirical evidence over the past 20 years has documented that key aspects of personality
traits change during adulthood. However, it is essentially an open question whether and …

Mortality-related processes are known to modulate late-life change in cognitive abilities, but
it is an open question whether and how precipitous declines with impending death …

We examined stability, change, and dedifferentiation of well-being in 124 participants with a
baseline age between 87 and 97 years (M= 90.56, SD= 2.92) across 7 measurement …

Is it possible to maintain a positive perspective on the self into very old age? Empirical
research so far is rather inconclusive, with some studies reporting substantial declines in self …

Recent research has repeatedly demonstrated that well-being typically evinces precipitous
deterioration close to the end of life. However, the determinants of individual differences in …

Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but
individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood …

A large body of research has documented changes in self-esteem across adulthood and
individual-difference correlates thereof. However, little is known about whether people …

Notions of terminal decline propose that late-life change is primarily driven by processes
closely tied to pathology and mortality rather than chronological age. We use the rationales …