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  • Growing human capital in aging populations offers societal benefits.
  • Purposeful engagement benefits older adults' well-being.

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  • To improve conceptual frameworks of productive engagement in older adults.
  • To apply a system dynamics (SD) approach to understand productive engagement.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative system dynamics (SD) model development.
  • Five unstructured group model-building sessions with experts.

Main Results:

  • A preliminary SD model of older adults' productive engagement was developed.
  • The model visualizes dynamic interrelationships between human capital, social capital, family resources, and engagement.

Conclusions:

  • System dynamics offers a novel approach to studying productive engagement in later life.
  • The model can guide future theoretical and mathematical modeling research.