The Concept,Limitations and Expansion of Active Aging
Active aging is one of the primary strategic approaches to proactively address the challenges of aging.This paper,based on a review of the origins of the international concept of active aging,summarizes and reflects upon the three main compo-nents of active aging:health,participation and security.It is argued that while the active aging has many advantages and contri-butions,it also has significant theoretical limitations and shortcomings.These manifest as a lack of a supply-side perspective,a focus on what ought to be rather than what it is,a binary opposition between negative and positive aging,an oversight of risk factors in older adult health,and a neglect of the development of the elderly workforce under the conditions of early retirement age.In response,the paper attempts to construct a new theory of active aging that integrates health,participation,security,re-sponsibility and sustainability.The theory aims to inspire and benefit China's exploration for proactive strategies in addressing its aging population.
active agingactive response to population aginginnovation in aging theory
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