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- Title
A More Complete Story of Aging: Age as Deficit and as Asset.
- Authors
Morrow-Howell, Nancy
- Abstract
My research career began focused on age-as-deficit; then, when studying productive aging, I moved to an age-as-asset perspective. I have come to another understanding of later life: deficits and assets exist within older adults and within the older population. We must tell the full and accurate story of aging and eliminate artificial limits curtailing engagement in life. Real limits exist as our bodies grow old; but powerful artificial limits are created by physical and social structures, policies, organizational practices, attitudes, expectations, and internalized beliefs about aging. If we eliminate artificial limits, we might handle real limits better, both individually and as a society.
- Subjects
HEALTH policy; AGEISM; ACTIVE aging; LABOR productivity; JOB involvement; SOCIAL attitudes; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; CORPORATE culture
- Publication
Generations, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0738-7806
- Publication type
Article