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Flourishing in older age:Scottish and other realities
(Positive Ageing)
Professor Mary GilhoolyDirector
Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies
PresentationCentre for Confidence and Well-Being
GlasgowOctober 11, 2007
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Positive ageing
• Why should we care?– Wish to reduce burden on the NHS– Wish to encourage participation and
productivity– Wish to make older people happy
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Ageism is rampant
• Gerontologists are partly responsible for negative views of old age– We focus our research on poor health
and other ‘problems’ associated with ageing, older people and the demographic ‘time bomb’
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• Positive ageing
• Successful ageing
• Active ageing
• Productive ageing
• Healthy ageing
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Why I dislike these terms
• Trendy
• Politicians use them
• Used interchangeably
• No inherent meaning
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• Moral dimension
Suggestion that the problems of old age are an individual, internal, or psychological matter, rather than something to do with the way we structure society and exclude older people from access to jobs and other meaningful roles
Puts an obligation on older people to stay active, healthy and happy
Victim blaming
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Many examples of active/successful/ positive ageing
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59 year old woman59 year old woman
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At 60 years
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• I was riding down the mountain with a sheer drop to my right when I suddenly thought………….. “I wouldn’t walk down a path like this, what am I doing on this horse?”
• “If I die, who will look after my mother?!”
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Healthy ageing• Age is the main risk factor for almost all diseases
– Heart disease– Stroke– Alzheimer’s disease
• Disability levels rise with age– 70% of disabled people are old
• There is little evidence for ‘compression of morbidity’– Major disability levels are decreasing in USA; minor
disability levels are increasing– Not much sign of compression of morbidity in Scotland
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Q. Why is age the main risk factor for disease?
• Increased exposure to toxins over a life time
• Ageing itself creates the conditions for the emergence of disease
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Incidence of large bowel cancer by age band (Scotland 1993-1997)
0.30.9
1.9
3.2
4.4
6.4
5
3.1
1.4
0.4
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+
Age Band
Incid
en
ce R
ate
per 1
,000
Females
Males
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Incidence of Stroke by Age (England)
15.9
8.1
3.58
0.7
18.4
20.4
13.4
5.8
2.40.50
5
10
15
20
25
45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+
Age Band
Inci
denc
e R
ate
per 1
,000
Males
Females
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Incidence of dementia by age (Scotland 2000)
1.6
8.1
11.2
18.7
20.30.01
17.2
0.10.10
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+
Age Band
Inci
den
ce r
ate
per
1,0
00
Femaels
Males
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Health is more than physical functioning
• WHO definition
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Psychological well-being
• Dementia
• Cognitive functioning
• Depression?
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Social well-being• Negative life events increase
– Loss of spouse– Loss of friends
• Poverty is linked to age– A high proportion of those who are defined as
poor are old.– Women are more affected by poverty in old
age than men
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Facts
• Ageing without disease is almost impossible
• Cognitive functioning declines with age• Social networks diminish, friends die
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Quality of life
• All the factors known to be associated with a good quality of life decline with age– Health– Wealth– Social networks and support
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Future cohorts (baby boomers) of older people will be healthier.
Not– The baby boomers are too fat– And they drink too much
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Q. In the face of these realities, what does it mean to age positively?
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Q. In the face of these realities, what does it mean to age positively?
• Lest you think that interest in positive ageing is new…..– Cicero challenged the negative stereotypes of old
age and pointed to the importance of motivation, values, good habits and social encouragement for optimising human potentialities in later years.
– Jung and Erikson elaborated normative stage theories of adult development that were a reaction against the negative stereotypes of ageing predominant in the late 19th century
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• There is no denial in these writings about the reality of old age
• Assumption of generalized age changes
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Recent theorizing
• Focus on differential ageingthat is…• Why it is that some older adults
show characteristics similar to the negative stereotypes of old ages, whereas others age much more positively
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Positive Ageing = Adaptation
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Thank You
Flourishing in older age:Scottish and other realities(Positive Ageing)
Professor Mary GilhoolyDirector
Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies
PresentationCentre for Confidence and Well-Being
GlasgowOctober 11, 2007
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ThankYou