Please answer these questions in a minimum of three full paragraphs using examples from the book and/or external references? Which lifestyle do you think is healthiest for aging people – activity, continuity, or disengagement theories? What are the pros and cons of each theory? Find examples of real people who illustrate the theories, either from your own experience or your friends’ relationships with older people. Do your examples show positive or negative aspects of the theory they illustrate?

Aging in place means living an independent life without causing any stress to ones own self. Activity theory best explains how healthiest aging can be achieved.

Explanation:

successful aging can be accomplished when elders constant keep themselves active. They have to remain socially active in order to attain an healthy aging. The activity theory and the disengagement theory were the two major theories that outlined successful aging. Activity theory is advantageous as it makes the adult to remain active, satisfied and happy through social interactions. They can also resist themselves from  stress and reclusion when they are active and enthusiastic.

Disengagement theory advocates that the elders have to stay away from a larger society and they have to be at peace within a confined limits. Modernization, has made people to come closer and though this theory had advantages, activity theory is much preferred.

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