Creativity in the Later Years: Optimistic Prospects for Achievement
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 30 (5) , 626-631
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/30.5.626
Abstract
Despite the apparent decline in productivity in the final years of life, seven considerations suggest a far more favorable outlook: the actual magnitude of the age decrement; the role of extrinsic influences; the contingency on career age; the impact of individual differences in creative potential; the interdisciplinary variation in the age curves; the virtual absence of an age decrement on a contribution-for-contribution basis; and the resurgence of creativity in the form of the swan-song phenomenon.Keywords
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