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Subcategories |
Codes |
Meaning summary |
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Social well-being
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Social presence & interaction |
Close relationship with
others
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Family relationship, a network of friends and family, intergenerational
relationship, doing some activities with family
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Social activity
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Productive activity or job, volunteer activity, social teaching, selfemployment,
participating in public activity
Recreation Traveling, creative activities, having variety of hobbies
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Recreation |
Traveling, creative activities, having variety of hobbies |
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Social support
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Not lonely |
Having a partner, wife/husband for close relationship and engagement
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Social support from
family
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Having a friend for speaking to or traveling, emotional and financial
support from family, visiting family
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Social support from
governments
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Social welfare policy for older adults, sufficient healthcare system, facilitation
of social role and productive activity for older adults, sufficient
pension, and insurance
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Psychological wellbeing
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Individual positive
characteristics and
capabilities
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Happiness
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Being full of energy and happy, joyful
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Having purpose/plan
and hope
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Being hopeful, having aims for the future
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Positive mood
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Generous, curious, sense of humor, other positive characteristics based on
culture
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Being useful
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No feeling of worthlessness, being productive, feeling of usefulness |
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Good appearance
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Good figure, being stylish |
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Self-acceptance
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Good feeling about his/herself, self-confidence, feeling of being useful, |
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Self-efficacy
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Ability for self-care, ability to avoid risk factors, ability to recover from
disease
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Mastery
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Ability to change environment in his/her interest, ability to do complex
activity in life and family, ability to change or select property environment
for his/her physical or mental limitation
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Maintaining balance
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Balance between opportunity and challenges, selection of alternatives,
compensation, balance between body and mind, balance between aspirations
and goals achieved
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Coping and resilience
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Ability to face life problems and challenges, avoiding running away from
problems, adoption of aging limitations, avoiding the wrong solutions
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Continuity in learning
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Learning new things, attempting to improve knowledge, attention to
development in later life
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Lifespan satisfaction
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Satisfaction with past life |
Acceptance of past life, good job, good memories from the past, satisfaction,
and getting over bad memories such as war
life satisfaction Satisfaction with whole life, satisfaction with partner
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life satisfaction
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Satisfaction with whole life, satisfaction with partner
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Positive selfperception
of aging
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Acceptance of the
natural process of
aging
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Acceptance of transition and changes from aging, acceptance of decline
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Positive perception towards aging
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Acceptance of positive points of aging, good self-image, without any bad
image such as frail elderly
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Absence of mental
illness
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No depression
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No signs of depression, such as withdrawal, feelings of worthlessness and
being useless, despair
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No cognitive impairment
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No signs or symptoms of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson suspicion of having
attention problems, no language impairment
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No stress or phobia
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Anorexia or stress eating, fear of the death of someone close, feeling
guilty
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Physical health
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Good physical
health
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Positive self-rated
health status
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No pain, no feeling of fatigue and feeling healthy and well
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The absence of various
diseases
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No symptoms of disease such as heart disease, heart attack, diabetes,
cancer, emphysema, osteoporosis, asthma, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular
disease, lung disease, Parkinson’s disease
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Avoidance of risk factors
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No smoking, eating Mediterranean diet, physical fitness and doing exercises
such as stretching
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Functional
health
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Doing daily living activities
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Doing personal activities such as taking a shower, ability to make phone
call, shopping, climbing stairs
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The absence of disability
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No hearing, visual, or physical impairment
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Longevity
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Living to more than 80 or 85 years old
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Spirituality and
transcendence
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Spirituality
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Feeling of inner peace, being thankful, being religious, accepting a
superior power, having beliefs
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Gerotranscendence
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Self-transcendence |
Rationality, self-recognition, decrease of self-orientation
Ontology Feeling of being part of world, part of life cycle, change of viewpoint
on the world
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Ontology
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Feeling of being part of world, part of life cycle, change of viewpoint
on the world
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Acceptance of death
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Reduction of stress from death, change of viewpoint on death
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Solitude
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Thinking about secret of life and relation with ancestors
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Environment
and economic
security
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Appropriate context and
environmental amenity
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Favorite living neighborhood
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Feeling of social security for walking in neighborhood, good accommodation
with sufficient heat and light
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Accommodation in the
good zone of the city
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Nice weather, clean water, having sufficient garbage disposal system
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living in a good environment
with accessibility
to healthcare system
age-friendly city
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Near to hospital, proper transportation to healthcare system
Absence of negative
stereotype in society
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Absence of negative
stereotype in society
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Absence of negative image of elderly in media avoids marginalizing
the social role of the elderly
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Financial and economic
security
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Satisfaction with financial resources, sufficient pension, or assets and having a home
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