1. Successful Aging Models 👴✨
- Rowe & Kahn's 3 Components: 📊
- 🏥 Avoiding disease and disability
- 🤝 Active engagement with life
- 🧠 High cognitive and physical functioning
- MacArthur Study: Famous study of thousands of successful agers 📚🔬
- Criticism: May exclude those with disabilities from "successful" aging ⚠️
2. Baltes' SOC Model ⚙️
- Selection - Choosing goals that match abilities 🎯
- Optimization - Maximizing what you have 📈
- Compensation - Finding new ways when old ways fail 🔄
- Example: Arthur Rubinstein (pianist) demonstrated all 3! 🎹✨
3. Quick Facts 📝⚡
- Active engagement = relationships + productive activities 🤝💼
- SOC is how we adapt to aging's changes 🔧
- Successful aging is more than just health! ⚖️