Na Xiao, Bo Xia, Laurie Buys, Connie Susilawati, Martin Larbi, Qing Chen
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Background: Globally, various aging concepts (such as healthy aging, successful aging, and active aging) have emerged to promote the goal of "aging well" and have gained widespread attention in academia, policy, and practice to change the negative narrative on aging. However, whether and how these aging concepts have contributed to changing the negative narratives remains unclear. Moreover, they are not clearly defined nor widely agreed upon, often creating ambiguity and confusion.
Objective: This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review and comparative analysis of 16 aging concepts, with a particular focus on how their evolution in research has contributed to shifting the narrative surrounding aging.
Methods: This study used the bibliometric software VosViewer (Center for Science and Technology Studies) to visualize international collaboration among countries and cocitation networks among journals. This helped identify which countries and journals play central roles in research on aging concepts and revealed how academic contributions are distributed globally. Additionally, content analysis supported by the corpus linguistics software AntConc (Waseda University) was conducted to examine and compare the main focuses, applications, challenges, and future research directions of these concepts.
Results: The findings indicate that while all 16 aging concepts share the common goal of improving the quality of life for older adults, they offer different perspectives, encompassing health management, social participation, mental health, and technological innovation. Key challenges to achieving the goal of each aging concept were identified, including unequal access to health care resources, barriers to social participation, and difficulties in adopting technology.
Conclusions: The overall impact of these aging concepts on reshaping negative aging narratives remains relatively limited. Future efforts should focus on advancing technology, optimizing policies, enhancing social support systems, and fostering global collaboration to provide innovative and sustainable solutions that promote the overall well-being of older adults.
背景：在全球范围内，各种老龄化概念（如健康老龄化、成功老龄化和积极老龄化）不断涌现，以促进“健康老龄化”的目标，并在学术界、政策和实践中得到广泛关注，以改变对老龄化的负面叙述。然而，这些衰老概念是否以及如何有助于改变负面叙述仍不清楚。此外，它们没有明确的定义，也没有得到广泛的同意，经常造成歧义和混乱。目的：本文旨在对16个老龄化概念进行全面回顾和比较分析，特别关注它们在研究中的演变如何有助于改变围绕老龄化的叙事。方法：本研究使用文献计量软件VosViewer （Center for Science and Technology Studies）可视化国家间的国际合作和期刊间的协作网络。这有助于确定哪些国家和期刊在老龄化概念研究中发挥了核心作用，并揭示了学术贡献是如何在全球范围内分布的。此外，在语料库语言学软件AntConc（早稻田大学）的支持下，进行了内容分析，对这些概念的主要焦点、应用、挑战和未来研究方向进行了考察和比较。结果：研究结果表明，虽然所有16个老龄化概念都有一个共同的目标，即提高老年人的生活质量，但它们提供了不同的视角，包括健康管理、社会参与、心理健康和技术创新。确定了实现每个老龄化概念目标的主要挑战，包括获得保健资源的机会不平等、社会参与的障碍和采用技术的困难。结论：这些衰老观念对重塑消极衰老叙事的总体影响仍然相对有限。未来的工作应侧重于推进技术进步、优化政策、加强社会支持系统和促进全球合作，以提供创新和可持续的解决方案，促进老年人的整体福祉。
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