There has been an attempt to establish various political, scientific and practical actions and strategies, especially in developed countries, with the aim of promoting the paradigm of active aging. However, initiatives in general tend to refer to the elderly as “research objects” without giving them the importance they deserve as “agents” who participate in research by giving their own vision (own perspective). This gives rise to the possibility of providing opportunities for the elderly to offer their views, which can help them better understand the active aging process.
Years ago, I did an (unpublished) study using focus groups to explore what older people thought of the concept of "aging well." You could certainly do something similar with "active aging."
Thank you for your contribution. I thought about developing and validating the content of an instrument for multidimensional assessment of active aging in the elderly and building a synthetic index, from which a quantitative measure of the level of active aging of the population and individuals can be obtained.
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