Understanding Very Old Age : Looking Back and Thinking Forward
(2016) In Journal of Aging and Social Policy 28(3). p.208-217- Abstract
Understanding human development among the oldest old is a sequential building process taking into account building-block data, theories, and models from childhood, adulthood, and old age toward a new territory of oldest-old survivors who have lived way beyond the average life-span. A central question is whether the oldest-old survivors have developed specific survival techniques and/or protective environments that nurture survival. Or are the oldest old statistical outliers who by happenstance continue to survive further into old age? This commentary provides a historical framework on the papers in this series that describe challenges confronted by the oldest-old survivors in order to advance our understanding of survival of the oldest... (More)
Understanding human development among the oldest old is a sequential building process taking into account building-block data, theories, and models from childhood, adulthood, and old age toward a new territory of oldest-old survivors who have lived way beyond the average life-span. A central question is whether the oldest-old survivors have developed specific survival techniques and/or protective environments that nurture survival. Or are the oldest old statistical outliers who by happenstance continue to survive further into old age? This commentary provides a historical framework on the papers in this series that describe challenges confronted by the oldest-old survivors in order to advance our understanding of survival of the oldest old. A clear understanding of the contributors to longevity could guide public policies toward well-being and life satisfaction among our oldest-old citizens.
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- author
- Poon, Leonard W. ; Martin, Peter and Hagberg, Bo LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-07-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Aging, centenarians, longevity, oldest old, quality of life
- in
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- pmid:27128448
- wos:000379256300005
- scopus:84975303238
- ISSN
- 0895-9420
- DOI
- 10.1080/08959420.2016.1163954
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 609aa91f-ff40-402f-b39f-78371eae054c
- date added to LUP
- 2017-01-16 14:09:46
- date last changed
- 2025-01-12 19:33:25
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