Successful Aging: Discovering The Factors Which Old People Regard As Essential To Optimal Old Age

The substantial increases in life expectancy at birth achieved over the previous century, combined with medical advances, escalating health and social care costs, and higher expectations for older age, have sparked international interest in promoting a healthier old age and in how to age "successfully." Changing patterns of illness in old age, with morbidity being compressed into fewer years and effective interventions to reduce disability and health risks in later life, make the goal of ag...