Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000451931
• Artikelnr.: 62503945

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.

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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-Roczynska 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