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Title: | Towards a Framework of Healthy Aging Practices |
Authors: | Yen, D Cohen, G Wei, L Asaad, Y |
Keywords: | healthy aging;aging consumers;balance;Body-Mind-Spirit |
Issue Date: | 5-Jan-2022 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Citation: | Yen, D., Cohen, G., Wei, L. and Asaad, Y. (2022) 'Towards a Framework of Healthy Aging Practices', Journal of Business Research, 142, pp. 176-187. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.026. |
Abstract: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. This paper explores how aging consumers engage in daily practices to achieve the balance between three aspects of wellbeing: body, mind, and spirit, with data collected from eighteen in-depth interviews with aging consumers, aged from 62 to 90. Taking on a consumer-centric approach to understanding how aging consumers’ day-to-day practices affect their wellbeing, the paper shows that aging consumers engage in a wide variety of healthy aging practices, including consuming a healthy diet and exercising to keep a healthy body, reading and learning new things to stimulate and sharpen the mind, and maintaining strong social connections for a happy spirit. Drawing from a holistic Body-Mind-Spirit framework and balance theory in discussing healthy aging, this paper contributes to the healthy aging literature by focusing on the lay consumer-centric perspective. Bringing in the lens of consumption practice, it extends previous understanding of healthy aging by illustrating that only when the three wellbeing dimensions are achieved together through self-engaged daily practices, can aging consumers’ wellbeing be effectively and holistically maintained. Managerial and policy making implications are also provided to reflect the research findings. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23755 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.026 |
ISSN: | 0148-2963 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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