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Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation.

One of the central tenets of life-span psychology is that the process of development entails gains and losses that occur over the entire life span. Thus, Paul and Margret Baltes (1990) conceptualized successful aging as a lifelong process of maximizing gains and minimizing losses by means of three p...

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Published in:Research in Human Development Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 94 - 107
Main Author: Freund, AlexandraM.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2008
Subjects:
Aging
Human life cycle
Developmental psychology
Natural selection
Compensation (Psychology)
Mathematical optimization
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost