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Goal Changes and Healthy Aging

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  • Jutta Heckhausen
  • Veronika Brandstätter
  • Ayelet Fishbach
  • Alexandra M Freund
  • Margie E Lachman
  • Philippe Robert
  • Mike Martin

Abstract

This article discusses ways in which aging individuals respond to physical, social, and environmental changes and constraints by modifying their goals. We review aging-related trends, which we derive from several theoretical approaches, including goal systems theory, the motivational theory of life-span development and its action-phase model, and the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation model. These theories explain how biological and social role changes in later adulthood prompt individuals to make changes to the content, orientation, and composition of their goals, including disengaging from and adjusting previously central goals. They also help identify individual differences in the capacity to do so effectively. We review several motivation-related interventions that address the challenges in goal adjustment and call for more research on identifying processes of goal changes conducive to healthy aging, more interventions, and modifications of societal and institutional (e.g., workplace, nursing home) operations that support adaptive goal change in older adults.

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  • Jutta Heckhausen & Veronika Brandstätter & Ayelet Fishbach & Alexandra M Freund & Margie E Lachman & Philippe Robert & Mike Martin, 2021. "Goal Changes and Healthy Aging," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 76(Supplemen), pages 105-114.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:76:y:2021:i:supplement_2:p:s105-s114.
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    1. Min-Chien Tsai & Sy-Feng Wang & Nicola J. Gray & Didier Jourdan, 2022. "Occupational Health of Education Personnel—The Role of Job Crafting and Other Control Strategies on Healthy Ageing at Work," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-18, November.

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