The Lives of Older People and Changing Social Roles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9768368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matilda White Riley (corresponding author), John W Riley, John Riley (0000-0001-9644-0649) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 503 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-28 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716289503001002 |
| OpenAlex | W2109262035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article addresses the central dilemma of the mismatch between the strengths and capacities of the increasing numbers of older people in the United States, on the one hand, and the inadequate social-role opportunities to utilize, reward, and sustain these strengths, on the other. In order to enhance the quality of aging, interventions are needed, both in the ways individuals grow older and in the environing matrix of families, work organizations, political institutions, health care systems, and all the other social structures in which people's lives are embedded. Examples of interventions in both lives and role structures demonstrate the potential for improvement. Looking toward the future, these interventions are seen to affect people of all ages and call for ultimate gradual redesign of the life course from birth to death. An analytical framework of the relationship between aging and broad changes in society is presented as a guide in designing small-scale interventions that can accumulate to benefit—rather than to impair—the well-being of older people now and in the future
Affect (linguistics · Business · Dilemma · Older people · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Quality of life (healthcare · Scale (ratio · Work (physics · Aging and Gerontology Research · Engineering · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2006 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |