Psychological wellbeing and healthy aging: focus on telomeres

M Boccardi, V Boccardi - Geriatrics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Stress and depression are known to modulate the aging process, and might also affect
telomere biology. In fact, exposure to some biochemical pathways involved in stress-related …

Population health management for older adults: review of interventions for promoting successful aging across the health continuum

R Tkatch, S Musich, S MacLeod… - Gerontology and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The older adult population is expanding, living longer, with multiple chronic
conditions. Understanding and managing their needs over time is an integral part of defining …

Effect of purpose in life on the relation between Alzheimer disease pathologic changes on cognitive function in advanced age

PA Boyle, AS Buchman, RS Wilson, L Yu… - Archives of general …, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
Context Purpose in life is associated with a substantially reduced risk of Alzheimer disease
(AD), but the neurobiologic basis of this protective effect remains unknown. Objective To test …

The relationship between change in self-perceptions of aging and physical functioning in older adults.

KA Sargent-Cox, KJ Anstey, MA Luszcz - Psychology and aging, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Negative self-perceptions of aging (SPA) have been linked to poor physical health and
functioning outcomes in late life, yet the direction of this relationship remain unclear. Using …

Aging and subjective well-being in later life

S Jivraj, J Nazroo, B Vanhoutte… - Journals of Gerontology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Objectives. This paper examines age-related changes in subjective well-being (SWB) in
later life using multiple measures that cover eudemonic, evaluative, and affective …

The influence of cognitive decline on well-being in old age.

RS Wilson, PA Boyle, E Segawa, L Yu… - Psychology and …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
This study addressed the hypothesis that late life cognitive decline leads to loss of well-
being. Participants are older persons from the Rush Memory and Aging Project. Beginning …

Neuroticism and extraversion in youth predict mental wellbeing and life satisfaction 40 years later

CR Gale, T Booth, R Mõttus, D Kuh, IJ Deary - Journal of research in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Neuroticism and Extraversion are linked with current wellbeing, but it is unclear whether
these traits in youth predict wellbeing decades later. We applied structural equation …

Life satisfaction shows terminal decline in old age: longitudinal evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP).

D Gerstorf, N Ram, R Estabrook, J Schupp… - Developmental …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Longitudinal data spanning 22 years, obtained from deceased participants of the German
Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; N= 1,637; 70-to 100-year-olds), were used to examine …

Decline in life satisfaction in old age: longitudinal evidence for links to distance-to-death.

D Gerstorf, N Ram, C Röcke, U Lindenberger… - Psychology and …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Using 12-year longitudinal data from deceased participants of the Berlin Aging Study (N=
414; age 70–103 years, at first occasion; M= 87 years, SD= 8.13), the authors examined …

Occupational activity and cognitive reserve: implications in terms of prevention of cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease

S Adam, E Bonsang, C Grotz… - Clinical interventions in …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the relationship between the concept of activity (including both
professional and nonprofessional) and cognitive functioning among older European …