Conceptualizing Productive Engagement in a System Dynamics Framework.

ABSTRACT: Gerontologists have argued that the growing human capital of the aging population can be better marshaled as a resource for families, communities, and society at large. Additionally, this active, purposeful engagement can produce positive outcomes for older adults themselves. In this manuscript, we propose that existing conceptual frameworks articulating antecedents and outcomes of productive engagement, including working, volunteering, and caregiving can be improved using a system dynamics (SD) approach. Through a series of five unstructured group model-building sessions, experts from gerontology and systems science developed a qualitative SD model of the productive engagement of older adults. The model illustrates the reciprocal and dynamic nature of the stocks of human capital of older

SUBMITTER: Morrow-Howell N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6177040 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature