Main description:

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 examines research into centenarians, and considers most of the disciplines related to longevity and healthy aging and aspects such as education, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, demography, sociology, economics as well as those related to nutrition and biological factors of longevity. The book examines how the results of these scientific investigations could improve the well-being of the oldest olds in the future, especially in the context of ageing societies. It provides an answer to the question of what we can learn from centenarians and what lessons we can from their lifestyle, which can contribute to live longer, better and happier.

Based on cutting-edge research, the book will be highly relevant reading for researchers, academics and students in the field of ageing and longevity, mental health research, health science, gerontology and psychology.

Contents:

Contents

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Preface

Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz

Blue Zone: A model to live longer and better
Michel Poulain and Anne Herm

The impact of population ageing on the future expectations of the ageing self among younger generations
Saori Yasumoto and Yasuyuki Gondo

Intergenerational transmission of value of Polish centenarian teachers
Jolanta Mackowicz, Joanna Wnek-Gozdek and Ewa Sliwa

Exceptional longevity: Exploring personality factors and resilience among Canadian centenarians
Martine Lagace and Caroline D. Bergeron

Ikigai: Meaning of Life and Other Psychosocial Factors for Longevity
Sabina Misoch

Life satisfaction and survival in centenarians
Laetitia Teixeira, Lia Araujo, Rosa Marina Afonso, Constanca Paul

and Oscar Ribeiro

Longevity and the role of biological factors in the context of lifestyle
Jacek Witkowski, Ewa Bryl, Anna Mikosik-Roczynska and Tamas Fulop

Longevity: Cultural and social influences of a unique non-Westen lifestyle
Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya and Victor Molinari

A closer look at life expectancy among cohorts of Danish centenarians
Anthony Medford and Jesus-Adrian Alvarez

Environmental support among centenarians
Peter Martin, Rotem Arieli and Joseph Kim

Implications for ageing society
Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz

Concluding remarks and reflections

Michel Poulain and Jolanta Mackowicz