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Tracing the Origins of Success: Implications for Successful Aging

Author(s) -

Nora Martin Peterson,

Peter Martin

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnu054

Subject(s) - humanism , ambivalence , german , term (time) , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , order (exchange) , etymology , psychology , aesthetics , sociology , history , social psychology , linguistics , computer science , political science , philosophy , law , artificial intelligence , physics , archaeology , finance , quantum mechanics , economics

This paper addresses the debate about the use of the term "successful aging" from a humanistic, rather than behavioral, perspective. It attempts to uncover what success, a term frequently associated with aging, is: how can it be defined and when did it first come into use? In this paper, we draw from a number of humanistic perspectives, including the historical and linguistic, in order to explore the evolution of the term "success." We believe that words and concepts have deep implications for how concepts (such as aging) are culturally and historically perceived.

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