Many longitudinal or retrospective studies of life course influences on later life focus on predicting specific outcomes, such as dementia diagnosis. These studies include identifying the impacts of health behavior, physical health, mental health or social circumstances on these outcomes. However, the predictors of other important outcomes (e.g., well-being, quality of life, activities of daily living, ability to cope with adversity, and need for care and support in later life) remain poorly understood. Indeed, ‘unexplained’ individual differences in psychological resilience and independence suggest that there remains a dearth of knowledge regarding life course and societal influences in later life.
This Research Topic therefore aims to provide insight into positive ageing from societal, behavioral, socio-cognitive, and emotional perspectives. This Topic and its associated research areas carry important implications for the field of public health, for policies, and for communities. We welcome articles written from different disciplinary perspectives that may have implications for a range of everyday independence activities. Issues of gender and socio-economic inequalities should also be a key area of focus for some of the submitted articles to this Topic. For example, what are the ways in which gender in older age modulates health, health behaviors, life chances, and inequalities? What are some advantages and disadvantages?
Specific sub-topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Lifespan impacts on applied aspects of cognition;
• Cognitive reserve;
• Cognitive frailty;
• Resilience, coping, and problem solving;
• Quality of life and need for (and/or use of) care and support in older age;
• Lifespan influences on later life well-being;
• Ageing and sociocultural variables,
• Influences of gender and inequalities on positive ageing;
• Socio-emotional cognition in older age.
The Topic Editors plan to provide a multidisciplinary synthesis of the accepted articles, drawing together the implications of the findings.
Many longitudinal or retrospective studies of life course influences on later life focus on predicting specific outcomes, such as dementia diagnosis. These studies include identifying the impacts of health behavior, physical health, mental health or social circumstances on these outcomes. However, the predictors of other important outcomes (e.g., well-being, quality of life, activities of daily living, ability to cope with adversity, and need for care and support in later life) remain poorly understood. Indeed, ‘unexplained’ individual differences in psychological resilience and independence suggest that there remains a dearth of knowledge regarding life course and societal influences in later life.
This Research Topic therefore aims to provide insight into positive ageing from societal, behavioral, socio-cognitive, and emotional perspectives. This Topic and its associated research areas carry important implications for the field of public health, for policies, and for communities. We welcome articles written from different disciplinary perspectives that may have implications for a range of everyday independence activities. Issues of gender and socio-economic inequalities should also be a key area of focus for some of the submitted articles to this Topic. For example, what are the ways in which gender in older age modulates health, health behaviors, life chances, and inequalities? What are some advantages and disadvantages?
Specific sub-topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Lifespan impacts on applied aspects of cognition;
• Cognitive reserve;
• Cognitive frailty;
• Resilience, coping, and problem solving;
• Quality of life and need for (and/or use of) care and support in older age;
• Lifespan influences on later life well-being;
• Ageing and sociocultural variables,
• Influences of gender and inequalities on positive ageing;
• Socio-emotional cognition in older age.
The Topic Editors plan to provide a multidisciplinary synthesis of the accepted articles, drawing together the implications of the findings.
