Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians

Living Longer and Better
Herausgeber: Poulain, Michel; Mackowicz, Jolanta

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Produktbeschreibung

Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians evaluates the mechanisms of positive ageing in a uniquely interdisciplinary way to explore the question of how we age and how some people age successfully.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780367753634
• ISBN-10: 0367753634
• Artikelnr.: 62234568

Autorenporträt

Michel Poulain is Professor Emeritus at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Senior Researcher at Tallinn University, Estonia. He specialises in longevity studies and is the initiator of the concept Longevity Blue Zone. Jolanta Mackowicz is Associate Professor at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland. She specialises in gerontological and educational research.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Preface
Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz
1. Blue Zone: A model to live longer and better
Michel Poulain and Anne Herm
2. The impact of population ageing on the future expectations of the
ageing self among younger generations
Saori Yasumoto and Yasuyuki Gondo
3. Intergenerational transmission of value of Polish centenarian
teachers
Jolanta Mackowicz, Joanna Wnek-Gozdek and Ewa Sliwa
4. Exceptional longevity: Exploring personality factors and resilience
among Canadian centenarians
Martine Lagacé and Caroline D. Bergeron
5. Ikigai: Meaning of Life and Other Psychosocial Factors for Longevity
Sabina Misoch
6. Life satisfaction and survival in centenarians
Laetitia Teixeira, Lia Araújo, Rosa Marina Afonso, Constança Paúl
and Oscar Ribeiro
7. Longevity and the role of biological factors in the context of
lifestyle
Jacek Witkowski, Ewa Bryl, Anna Mikosik-Roczy¿ska and Tamas Fulop
8. Longevity: Cultural and social influences of a unique non-Westen
lifestyle
Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya and Victor Molinari
9. A closer look at life expectancy among cohorts of Danish centenarians
Anthony Medford and Jesús-Adrian Álvarez
10. Environmental support among centenarians
Peter Martin, Rotem Arieli and Joseph Kim
11. Implications for ageing society
Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz
12. Concluding remarks and reflections
Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz