230 | pISSN: 1858-3598  eISSN: 2502-5791 Jurnal Ners Vol. 15, No. 2, Special Issue 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jn.v15i2.19019 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Systematic Review The Factors Associated with Successful Aging in Elderly: A Systematic Review Inta Susanti 1,2 , Glorya Riana Latuperissa 1 , Fathmy Fitriany Soulissa 1 , Anis Fauziah 1 , Tintin Sukartini 1 , Retno Indarwati 1 , Arifal Aris 1,2 1 Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia 2 Universitas Muhammadiyah Lamongan, Lamongan, Indonesia ABSTRACT Introduction: Successful aging (SA) is defined as adding life to years and as feeling satisfied with past and present life. Criteria for successful aging: free of disease and disability; high levels of physical and cognitive functioning; and social engagement. The aim of this study was to describe factors associated with successful aging among older people Methods: The literature search strategy identified 1.914 articles. The PRISMA strategy was used to identify articles that met inclusion criteria. Initially 255 duplicated studies were excluded; resulting in 1659 articles screened for inclusion in this review. A further 1567 articles were removed based on the title and abstract. The remaining 32 articles were assessed for inclusion this review. Nineteen articles were excluded. In total 13 studies met inclusion criteria for this review. These 13 studies were assessed for quality, data extraction and synthesis. Results: The factors associated with successful aging are age, gender, few physical morbidities, absence of depression, body weight or BMI in the overweight range, carrying out more than six AADL and high levels of physical activity, education, smoking, alcohol consumption, marital status, proactive engagement, wellness resources, positive spirit, and valued relationships, sleep quality, leisure activity, economic status, religious activity, and high perceived meaningfulness. Conclusion: The factors that influence successful aging are socio- demographic factor, physiological, psychological, and lifestyle behavioral factors. This study shed light on the key factors that healthcare providers or researchers should consider in intervention studies and programs to promote healthy aging. ARTICLE HISTORY Received: Feb 27, 2020 Accepted: April 1, 2020 KEYWORDS successful aging; elderly CONTACT Inta Susanti  inta.susanti-2019@fkp.unair.ac.id  Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia Cite this as: Susanti, I., Latuperissa, g.r., Soulissa, F.F., Fauziah, A., Sukartini, T., Indarwati, R., & Aris, A. (2020). The Factors Associated with Successful Aging in Elderly: A Systematic Review. Jurnal Ners, Special Issues, 230-237. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jn.v15i2.19019 INTRODUCTION Increasing life expectancy results in a growing number of older people, so that maintaining a good health and function in older people is an important target in aging societies. The universal outcome is for successful aging or healthy aging. This has been a main subject of investigation in recent decades. Successful aging (SA) is defined as adding life to years and as feeling satisfied with past and present life (Eun & Kahana, 2017). Identifying factors that may positively influence successful aging (SA) is of great interest both for individuals and society, as the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years is expected to almost double between 2015 and 2050 (Eun & Kahana, 2017). Successful aging has been recently investigated, but it is a concept that remains without a consensus definition, even though different factors have been examined, such as avoiding disease and disability, having high cognitive, mental or physical function, being actively engaged in life and psychologically well adapted (Boero, Francesco, Vizzuso, & Dessì, 2017). The domains of physical and functional health,