Healthy Aging: Education, Health, Health Psychology and Leisure

Abstract

In the recent years, we are seeing the aging of global population with transformations of growth curves, demands in the areas of Health, Psychology and Education, in particular addressing the better global preparedness for this healthy aging. Positive Psychology has been taking ground, with interfaces with Health Psychology, Education for Leisure and Recreation, Emotional Education and lifelong Health Promotion, connecting with areas that can be applied by professionals called educators and caregivers, assisting the human development from the point of view of higher life quality, especially the one connected to human development along adulthood, beginning at the end of adolescence and going until the death. After reading authors from these areas, as Seligman, Snyders, López, Ballesteros, Carr, Adrián, Baltes, Hué, Gardner, Goleman, Jesus, we see the alert for a performance and decision-making throughout life, toward the knowledge of how we work and we can improve our outsourcing behaviors and healthier way of improving the way of dealing better with emotions, the so-called Emotional Education, within the context of Neuroscience, as well as aspects of education and promotion for implications with health, leading to what we consider an Emotional Education, Health Education and Welfare.