Association between Psychological Factors and Successful Ageing

Running head: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE1
Successful ageing is defined as the concept of simple living, where the person is
devoid of any chronic physical illnesses or disorder. There are three primary components of
successful ageing, which includes low likelihood of illness and disease-connected debility,
high physical and cognitive functional ability, and energetic engagement or involvement with
life. There are different physical, social and psychological factors that contribute towards the
process of successful ageing. The essay will focus on the association between the good
psychological factors and effective or successful ageing (Aldwin et al. 2017).
In psychological factors, that reduced proportion of depression and increased
proportion of resilience is considered as the most significant factors that is directly related
with the process of successful ageing. The above mentioned factor determine the mental
health condition of an individual, as being mentally fit is the key concept towards successful
ageing because the person tends to feel happy and secure that eventually result in better
health condition. Psychological resiliency is defined as the person or individual capability to
successfully adapt to difficulty and stress (Mlinac and Schwabenbauer 2018). Hence, if an
individual develop enhanced level of resilience, they can partake a positive step towards
successful ageing. The other important psychological factor that is highly responsible for
successful ageing is determining the purpose or reason of life, which act as an indicator for
successful ageing as it reduce the risk of mortality among people. The people who age from
20 to 50 develop a mature defence that allow them to overcome from the effect of
psychological factor. There are other associated psychological factors that is responsible for
successful ageing in older people includes physical health, social support, financial stability
and personal income, cohesiveness and family dynamics, variety of stress-management
strategies, developing meaning or purpose of life, maintaining optimal standard of cognitive
function, self-justification towards negative aspect of life and their outcomes, mastery of
widowhood and bereavement and strategies adapted to prevent from depression and personal