Stephen Badham

Dr Stephen Badham

Small Group Project 2021-22

Establishing the European Consortium of Social and Systematic Research on Positive Ageing

With Anna Rosa Donizzetti & Gaël Brulé & Laurent Sovet & Vincenza Capone & Miriam Sang-Ah Park

With an ever increasing number of older adults in society, it is imperative we look for ways to promote positive ageing and better quality of life for older adults. More specifically, we aim to establish positive ageing as a more well-defined concept based on sociocultural and personal meaning associated, which we believe would lead to a more holistic and meaningful understanding than the biomedical explanations. We thus approach the topic of positive ageing with the view that it refers to maintaining a positive attitude, feeling good and keeping fit and healthy in old age.

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Research outcomes

Park, M. S., Badham, S. P., Vizcaino-Vickers, S., & Fino, E. (2024).

Exploring Older Adults’ Subjective Views on Aging Positively: Development and Validation of the Positive Aging Scale. The Gerontologist, 64(9).

Areas of interest

Psychology Ageing Memory

Cohort

FG7

Biography

Stephen is an Associate Professor in Psychology. He teaches on a range of courses across the undergraduate and postgraduate psychology curriculum. He is also responsible for undertaking research based activities related to his expertise in cognitive ageing and memory.

Stephen’s PhD was based on investigating age differences in associative memory: Older adults can perform well at remembering individual pieces of information but struggle more relative to young adults when combining information (e.g., associating a name to a face). More recently his research has developed to investigate how older adults can use their knowledge and experience to reduce age deficits in memory.

Biographical details correct as of 27.04.26