The concept of successful ageing focuses on overcoming problems, in contrast to the concept of resilience, which can acknowledge vulnerability.
Other theories of aging focus attention on factors that can influence the expression of a genetically determined "program".
The tension between the two modes is just about perfect for the coming-of-age focus of her soulful solo debut.
Rabbi Berg recast kabbalah in a late-20th-century light by combining it with a New Age focus on self-actualization.
It's an interest that he shares with the Silicon Valley types he critiques (Steve Jobs was a practitioner of Zen Buddhism) and, in a distracted age, focus – and its handmaiden, mindfulness – is more fashionable in west-coast America than curly kale.
After devouring the offerings of Thanksgiving, while still seated at the table, time came to fulfill a family tradition born of my mother's early '90s new age focus on the importance of sharing our feelings.
The only romantic comedy roles for women of a certain age focus on the novelty of someone still finding a woman over 50 to be desirable, as if someone ought to call Ripley's Believe It or Not.
"Age focuses you," she said.
The second age focused on "personnel selection, training and motivation as prevention measures, often based on theories of accident proneness".
