Experience Capital, Peakspan & Workspan
External framework or theory · Supporting · 1990
A successful-aging model proposes prioritizing goals, strengthening selected capabilities, and compensating for losses
Baltes and Baltes propose that people adapt to age-related gains and losses through selection, optimization, and compensation: prioritizing the goals and capabilities that matter most, investing effort and resources to maintain or improve them, and using alternative methods or support when a capability declines.
Research basis
Foundational theoretical chapter. Life-span developmental and successful-aging research.
What it supports
The intellectual lineage for adaptation, compensation, and changing capacity across the life course.
Boundary
This is a theoretical framework for adaptation during aging. It does not demonstrate that these strategies preserve Biological Capacity or improve leadership performance.
BOL relevance
Provides a prior theoretical foundation for how people adapt to changing capacity without validating BOL's Workspan proposition.
Source class
Peer-reviewed research
Role in BOL
Supporting
Population context
Policy or conceptual
Evidence basis
Conceptual or synthesized
Source record checked 26 July 2026.