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Article: Aging and well-being. (Future View)
- Article from:
- The Futurist
- Article date:
- March 1, 1991
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As human beings age, it is in their nature to think of the future in terms of achieving and maintaining their own well-being. Many of the dimensions of well-being are intuitively obvious to a reflective person: income, health, family, neighborhood, community, and so on. Older adults of recent decades have lived in a relatively affluent world in which they have fared very well materially. But the continuation of this world is problematic.
To begin examining the relationship between aging and well-being, we should look at three revolutions that shed some light on the determinants of well-being: the demographic revolution in the age composition of populations, the ...