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1 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
2 Free University, Berlin, Germany.
Address correspondence to Dr. Frieder R. Lang, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany. E-mail: flang{at}rz.hu-berlin.de
Previous cross-sectional research has shown that older people who are rich in sensorimotor-cognitive and social-personality resources are better functioning in everyday life and exhibit fewer negative age differences than resource-poor adults. Longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study was used to examine these findings across a 4-year time interval and to compare cross-sectional indicators of adaptive everyday functioning among survivors and nonsurvivors. Apart from their higher survival rate, resource-rich older people (a) invest more social time with their family members, (b) reduce the diversity of activities within the most salient leisure domain, (c) sleep more often and longer during daytime, and (d) increase the variability of time investments across activities after 4 years. Overall, findings suggest a greater use of selection, compensation, and optimization strategies in everyday functioning among resource-rich older adults as compared with resource-poor older adults.
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