Successful Ageing: Definition, Historical Models, and Approaches

Successful ageing can be
achieved by everyone

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Definition of successful ageing..............................................................................................3
Historical models....................................................................................................................3
Proactive approaches..............................................................................................................5
Psychological approaches.......................................................................................................6
Opinion ..................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Successful ageing has fully grown all over the past few decades in popularity. Ageing is
the spontaneous and gradual from infant to young adult and mature to old age. In the life, at
some point individual become obsessed about ageing as well as want to know what to evaluate
and deflect or ways to accommodate (Breheny and Griffiths, 2017). Successful ageing basically
focus on what is important for an individual and what individuals are being able to do in their old
age. The following essay is going to cover successful ageing. Furthermore, it will focus on
psycho-social factors and relationship between health, illness and well-being subsequent life-
course.(VanVoorhis,2016).
Definition of successful ageing
A successful ageing is multifaceted and complicated concept which alter matter among
persons, even time, disciplines. If a person have aged with success upon having reached old age
with their mental well-being, spirit still intact, physical health.
Historical models
These are the frameworks which describe about the concepts of successful ageing for
older adults. Some of the historical models or theory are discussed here.
Disengagement theory: This theory is related with ageing assertion which is satisfactory
and natural for older adults to recede from society and individual kinship as they age. This
hypothesis further suggests that society responds to the successful ageing disengagement with a
sort of mutual recognition that the elder will soon pass and society should prepare to function in
their absence (Wirths and Williams, 2017). As such, the theory argues that it is natural and
accepted for flourishing senescent people to retreat from society.
This theory, miserable from a deficiency of verifiable support, has mostly been
discharged by social scientists and gerontologists. This conception is developed by in context of
successful ageing, it proposes that adults become progressively unsocial a they get aged. In
increasing old age a formal controversy for why older adults would naturally disengage from
society. It is important because that ageing is an inevitable, resulting in decreased interaction
between the ageing person and other in the social system, mutual withdrawal of disengagement.
The use of this theory that is rely upon their capability to explain the predict and present the