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Active ageing (active aging in the US) is a concept recently deployed by the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and used also in Human Resource Management. This concept evokes the idea of longer activity, with a higher retirement age and working practices adapted to the age of the employee.
Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older. ... from welfare recipients to active, contributing members of society". [117] ...
The activity theory states that optimal aging occurs when individuals participate in activities, pursuits, and relationships. The activity theory of aging , also known as the implicit theory of aging , normal theory of aging , and lay theory of aging , proposes that aging occurs with more positive outcomes when adults stay active and maintain ...
Many elders, and especially women, are involved in organizations that aim to effect social change on issues related to ageing or in general. [3] Retirement engenders a form of social exclusion . In this context becoming an activist or a volunteer represents one's agency and participation in social change, outside the market system.
Two British scholars, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard, have added a "fourth age" sub-group. In British English, the "third age" is "the period in life of active retirement, following middle age". [20] Higgs and Gilleard describe the fourth age as "an arena of inactive, unhealthy, unproductive, and ultimately unsuccessful ageing". [21]
The study used data sourced from large-scale surveys of the US population and found that 38.9 percent of men between 75 to 85 years of age remained intimately active.
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Academic age; Active ageing; Activist ageing; Age bias (medicine) Age management medicine; Ageing of newspaper readership; Ageing studies; Agequake; Ageing of Europe; The Aging Symposium (Alberta) Anti-aging product; Anti-aging movement; Anti-aging supplements; ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research