Practice question · Multiple choice
Rowe and Kahn define successful aging as low disease risk, high functioning, and active engagement with life. A critic objects that this turns a woman's arthritis into a personal failure. Why does the objection have real force, and what does it not establish?
Hints
- Look at the word "successful" rather than at the three criteria themselves.
- A criticism can be right about the framing and still leave the measurements standing.
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B. It has force because the three criteria are only partly controllable.
Why
The objection lands on the label, not the list. Whether you develop arthritis is substantially luck, so calling the composite success quietly converts bad fortune into a shortfall. What survives is the measurement: disease burden, functioning and engagement remain the right things to track. Stop calling it success; keep counting it.
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