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Define: Baltes’ Selection, Optimisation and Compensation Theory

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Describes selection, optimisation and compensation as three distinct but interrelated processes that are all vital for successful ageing

2
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Define: selection

Provide an example

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Reducing the number of goals one might seek to achieve by prioritising and working towards achieving only the most important of these goals
Eg. Rubinstein would play fewer pieces of music

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Define: optimisation

Provide an example

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How an older person seeks to get the best outcome in whatever they do by making the most of their abilities, resources and opportunities
Eg. Practising the piano more often

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Define: compensation

Provide an example

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Making up for any losses experienced in ones abilities by developing new strategies to substitute for each of these losses
Eg. Varying the speed of his pieces to make parts seem faster.

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Define: successful ageing

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Maximising and obtaining desired outcomes and minimising and avoiding undesired outcomes during old age

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