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Stabilisation of health as the centre point of a health psychology of ageing

Scholz, Urte; König, Claudia; Eicher, Stefanie; Martin, Mike (2015). Stabilisation of health as the centre point of a health psychology of ageing. Psychology & Health, 30(6):732-749.

Abstract

Abstract Current health-psychological theories and research mainly cover improvement of health, recovery from illness or maintenance of health. With this theoretical manuscript, we argue that in ageing societies in which chronic illness and multimorbidity become the norm rather than the exception, this focus of health psychology is no longer sufficient. Instead, in line with a recent conceptualisation of health as "the ability to adapt and to self-manage" (Huber et al., 2001, p. 2), we suggest that the centre point of a health psychology of ageing needs to be the stabilisation of health. Current theories of life-span development, such as the model of selection, optimisation and compensation, the motivational theory of life span development, the two-process model of assimilative and accomodative coping and the recently introduced functional quality of life model are described with regard to their assumptions and related research focussing on stabilisation. All of these models explicitly comprise stabilisation as an important process of successful, healthy ageing. So far, however, the empirical research examining these models does not take stabilisation into account. Implications for research methods and practice of health stabilisation are discussed.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
06 Faculty of Arts > Center for Gerontology
08 Research Priority Programs > Dynamics of Healthy Aging
Dewey Decimal Classification:150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Applied Psychology
Health Sciences > Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Language:English
Date:2 January 2015
Deposited On:07 Jan 2015 15:23
Last Modified:12 Jan 2025 02:39
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc.
ISSN:0887-0446
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2014.991733
PubMed ID:25555036
Project Information:
  • Funder: SNSF
  • Grant ID: 406740_139363
  • Project Title: The Zurich Life And Death with Advanced Dementia (ZULIDAD) Study
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