Question

the Theory of Successful Aging provides the scaffolding between nursing interventions and successful aging. In this discussion question, you will discuss the following from Troutman-Jordan's theory: please include references and in-text citation

1.What grand theories provide a foundation for the Theory of Successful Aging?

2.What instruments can be used to assess the successful aging of an older adult?

3.What are your thoughts about this theory?

Answer 1

1.What grand theories provide a foundation for the Theory of Successful Aging?

A theory of successful aging is based on conditions of individual and social life. In which the individual person gets a maximum of satisfaction and happiness and society maintains an appropriate balance among satisfactions for the various groups of old, middle- aged, and young, men and women.

The foundations for successful aging is based on aging--activity theory, disengagement theory, and continuity theory.

Successful aging is the absence of physical and emotional disabilities.The perceptions of older adults about the aging process are more important than the occurence of illness and physical disability and depend on attitude, resilience, optimism, and coping style. When those issues are taken into consideration, an older person can often control successful aging. This concept provides the basis for aging theory.

2.What instruments can be used to assess the successful aging of an older adult?

The most common instruments used to assess the successful aging of an older adult are Life Satisfaction Inventory-A, Purpose in Life Test, Mastery Scale, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.

3.What are your thoughts about this theory?

Changes occurs in all human beings.·The process must be progressive with time. Ageing is considered as an organism's inability to better combat natural deteriorative processes. When alteration occurs to this process it causes illness and disability. The normal adpative and progressive changes occurs in every human beings. The theory of aging expalins regarding this concept.

Referances

• Evaluating Successful Aging in Older People Who Participated in Computerized or Paper-and-Pencil Memory Training: The Memoria Mejor Program, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.in
• http:// courses lumenlearning.com