Personality and successful ageing: a review

Abstract

Longitivity of life among the older population has been witnessed since last century in developed and developing countries. Maintaining a positive and healthy life is more required than a longer life. Major challenges of ageing are social, economical and health. Successful ageing remains a doubt when an older adult is not able to live a healthy life with reduced risk of disabilities and increased physical and mental functioning. On the other hand old age is the age of cognitive and physical transitions. In an age of transformation older adults could not be free from any one of the social-economic and health related challenge. With the rapid increase of life expectancy when initiatives have been taken to maintain the existing characteristic for a successful ageing, researches are considering the role of personality in health. The purpose of the review is to study the role of personality as the predictor of successful ageing.