Successful Aging and Social Activity in Older Japanese Adults

2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Ohno ◽  
Rie Aoki ◽  
Akiko Tamakoshi ◽  
Takashi Kawamura ◽  
Kenji Wakai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Successful Aging ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Health Habits ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Japanese Adults ◽  
Varied Diet

To explore successful aging and high social activity in old age, data from a self-administered survey of 5,239 participants aged 65 years or more were analyzed. The questionnaire inquired about physical conditions and lifestyles of Japanese seniors during middle age and their present social activities in 4 regions of Japan in 1993. The authors first defined social activities and then developed a social-activity measure. Next, they examined the association between present social activity and physical conditions and lifestyles during middle age. Data analysis revealed that the most socially active seniors rated themselves as healthy and physically active during middle age. Socially active seniors differed from less active seniors: They had participated in more hobbies during middle age, had higher levels of education, and had had a more varied diet between the ages of 30 and 50. The data suggest that maintaining general health habits and lifestyles from middle age on is important for successful aging and high social activity in old age.

scholarly journals Trajectories of social activities from middle age to old age and late-life disability: a 36-year follow-up

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 790-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Agahi ◽  
C. Lennartsson ◽  
I. Kareholt ◽  
B. A. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Social Activities

Multidomain trajectories of psychological functioning in old age: A longitudinal perspective on (uneven) successful aging.

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 2309-2324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Morack ◽  
Nilam Ram ◽  
Elizabeth B. Fauth ◽  
Denis Gerstorf
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Successful Aging

Attitude towards Health and Fitness of Middle Age and Old Age Citizens of Gwalior

10.26524/1312 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 06-15
Author(s):  
Rajender Singh ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Sonu Kumar ◽  
Prabal Pratap Singh
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Health And Fitness

Old age support in kind

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAZUTOSHI MIYAZAWA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Formal Care ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
Transfer Policy ◽  
Endogenous Growth Model ◽  
Disincentive Effect ◽  
Inter Vivos Transfer

AbstractIt has been argued whether a transfer policy for elderly people should be in kind or in cash. This paper presents a rationale to answer the question in an endogenous growth model with a two-way intrafamily transfer in middle age, education for the child as an inter-vivos transfer, and informal parental care in exchange for a bequest. We have two analytical results. First, a transfer in cash, such as a public pension, prevents economic growth because a strategic behavior concerning caregiving generates a disincentive effect on education. Second, a transfer in kind, such as public formal care, promotes economic growth because the valuation of the service generates an additional benefit of education, which dominates the disincentive effect. Our results show that old age support should be in kind rather than in cash in the context of economic growth and also welfare if bequests are strategic.

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Wheaton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Age ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
South West ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Equipment Performance

Surfing has consistently been framed as a youth focused, male-dominated sport and culture. Despite surfing’s ageing demographic, neither the ways in which age impacts on surfing identities and mobilities, nor older surfer’s experiences and subjectivities, has been given scholarly attention. In this paper, I discuss research exploring the experiences and identities of middle-aged and older recreational male and female surfers in the south and south-west of England. The research illustrates that participation in surfing as a sport and lifestyle remains highly significant for some men and women through middle-age and into retirement. I consider the cultural barriers and challenges in dealing with a loss in physical performance through ageing, such as adaptations to their equipment, performance, and style, and the implications for how individuals negotiate bodily capital, space and identity. Nonetheless, older surfers also embrace different ways of being a surfer which challenge some of the more exclusionary aspects of surfing identities. Theoretically the paper develops an intersectional approach to sporting identity that explicitly recognises and accounts for the contribution of age to social identity. The research also contributes to the growing literature on physically active ‘post-youth’ leisure lifestyles, illustrating how shifting definitions of ageing have given ‘rise to new expectations, priorities and understandings’ of sporting lifestyles amongst those in middle age, and beyond.

Perceptions of Ideal and Typical Middle and Old Age

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy C. Sherman ◽  
Joel A. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Three Dimensions

An investigation of attitudes toward typical and ideal old age was carried out with seventy-eight undergraduate students. Half of the participants responded to semantic differential scales for typical and ideal old age and half to middle age stimulus objects. The scales were analyzed in terms of three dimensions produced in previous research. No difference was found between the middle and old age conditions for the personal acceptability dimension but differences were found for both the autonomous-dependent and instrumental-ineffective dimensions. The old and middle age objects were rated alike at ideal but the old age object was rated less autonomous and less instrumental at typical.

Personality stability and change over a 30-year period—middle age to old age.

1979 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria R. Leon ◽  
Brenda Gillum ◽  
Richard Gillum ◽  
Marshall Gouze
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Personality Stability

scholarly journals Effects of Participation in Social Activities on Cognitive Function Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jongnam Hwang ◽  
Sangmin Park ◽  
Sujin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Groups

Cognitive function is a critical health issue in later life, the decline of which disrupts well-being and daily life function. Cognitive decline in older ages can also be understood in the context of the social environment such as social connectedness and engagement in personal life. This study aimed to examine: (1) whether participation in social activities contributes to preventing cognitive decline, and (2) what type of social activities are beneficial to maintaining cognitive function. Data from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLOSA) 2006–2014, a longitudinal survey of the household-dwelling population aged 45 and older in Korea were used. The results revealed that Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores decreased with increasing age, at a rate of approximately 0.18 units across all age-gender groups, and the decrease was steeper for adults aged 65 and over. Participation in social gatherings was likely to delay the decline in cognitive function after the age of 65. In a gender-stratified model, social activity may not have an impact on the decline of cognitive function for men, whereas participation in social gatherings was negatively related to the decline of MMSE scores in women. This study suggests the need for a gender-stratified policy for preventing the decline of cognitive function while promoting engagement in social activities in Korean older adults.

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