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Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians: Living Longer and Better book cover

1st Edition

Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians Living Longer and Better

Edited By Michel Poulain, Jolanta Mackowicz Copyright 2022
192 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians evaluates the mechanisms of positive ageing in a uniquely interdisciplinary way to explore the question of how we age and how some people age successfully. Drawing together the findings of recognised longevity researchers from around the world, the book applies an integrated vision to educational and social aspects of human ageing. It... Read more

Contents

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Preface

Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz

  1. Blue Zone: A model to live longer and better

    2. Michel Poulain and Anne Herm

  2. The impact of population ageing on the future expectations of the ageing self among younger generations

    3. Saori Yasumoto and Yasuyuki Gondo

  3. Intergenerational transmission of value of Polish centenarian teachers

    4. Jolanta Mackowicz, Joanna Wnek-Gozdek and Ewa Sliwa

  4. Exceptional longevity: Exploring personality factors and resilience among Canadian centenarians

    5. Martine Lagacé and Caroline D. Bergeron

  5. Ikigai: Meaning of Life and Other Psychosocial Factors for Longevity

    6. Sabina Misoch

  6. Life satisfaction and survival in centenarians

    7. Laetitia Teixeira, Lia Araújo, Rosa Marina Afonso, Constança Paúl

    and Oscar Ribeiro

  7. Longevity and the role of biological factors in the context of lifestyle

    8. Jacek Witkowski, Ewa Bryl, Anna Mikosik-Roczyńska and Tamas Fulop

  8. Longevity: Cultural and social influences of a unique non-Westen lifestyle

    9. Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya and Victor Molinari

  9. A closer look at life expectancy among cohorts of Danish centenarians

    10. Anthony Medford and Jesús-Adrian Álvarez

  10. Environmental support among centenarians

    11. Peter Martin, Rotem Arieli and Joseph Kim

  11. Implications for ageing society

    12. Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz

  12. Concluding remarks and reflections

          Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz

Biography

Michel Poulain is Professor Emeritus at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Senior Researcher at Tallinn University, Estonia. He specialises in longevity studies and is the initiator of the concept Longevity Blue Zone.

Jolanta Mackowicz is Associate Professor at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland. She specialises in gerontological and educational research.

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