As the global population ages, expectations around socially-productive engagement in work, volunteer, and caregiving activities in later life are rapidly changing. Several streams of research to date inform our understanding of meaningful engagement in later life, but these bodies of research tend to be siloed in their approaches with few integrative frameworks. Further, advancing the national conversation around the AASWSW’s grand challenge to “Advance Long and Productive Lives” will require that social workers and other professionals have an understanding of what productive aging is at every level of social work practice, from micro to macro, and how these levels interact so that they have the tools they need to carry out the vision of this grand challenge. The goals of this paper are: (a) to further define the conceptual space of engagement, (b) to introduce subjective quality of engagement (SQE) as an important concept in the aging literature and present a conceptual model for it; (c) to integrate SQE into a broader conceptual model of engagement; and (d) to describe implications for clinical and mezzo social work practice. This more integrative approach focuses attention on the ways in which social work practitioners at the clinical and mezzo levels can best support older adult’s continued engagement in socially-productive activities that support health and well-being. We also propose that it will contribute to the discovery of more effective and targeted individual and public health interventions that facilitate the successful/healthy aging of individuals and our society.

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参与晚年社会生产活动的综合概念框架：对临床和 Mezzo 社会工作实践的影响

随着全球人口老龄化，人们对晚年工作、志愿者和护理活动的社会生产性参与的期望正在迅速变化。迄今为止，有几项研究流向我们了解了晚年有意义的参与，但这些研究机构的方法往往是孤立的，几乎没有综合框架。此外，围绕 AASWSW 对“促进长寿和富有成效的生活”的巨大挑战推进全国对话将需要社会工作者和其他专业人士了解在社会工作实践的各个层面（从微观到宏观）什么是生产性老龄化，以及如何这些级别相互作用，以便他们拥有实现这一巨大挑战的愿景所需的工具。本文的目标是：(a) 进一步定义参与的概念空间，(b) 将主观参与质量 (SQE) 作为老化文献中的一个重要概念引入，并为其提供概念模型；(c) 将 SQE 整合到更广泛的参与概念模型中；(d) 描述对临床和中级社会工作实践的影响。这种更具综合性的方法将注意力集中在临床和中级水平的社会工作从业者如何最好地支持老年人继续参与支持健康和福祉的社会生产活动上。我们还提议，它将有助于发现更有效和更有针对性的个人和公共卫生干预措施，以促进个人和我们社会的成功/健康老龄化。