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Trajectories of aging
— imagined pathways in later life | | Author(s) | Anne-Linda Furstenberg |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 55, no 1, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 1-24 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Life span ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Attitude ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As well as the preparatory action that people take, the model of ageing they construct influences interpretations of, and responses to, actual situations when these occur. Thus, the process by which people construct and revise this subjective ageing trajectory has implications for such issues as health behaviour, retirement planning, migration and residential moves, and advance directives (living wills), as well as for overall well-being in old age. This exploratory hypothesis-generating study found that its 26 American informants referred frequently to the course of ageing and the events they envisioned in their own futures. The analysis delineates: types of events that older people see as part of ageing in general and their own ageing in particular; factors and processes that enter into the construction of the subjective trajectory of ageing; and feeling and behavioural responses to the imagined future. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030401207 A |
| Classmark | BG: BG6: F: DP: 7T |
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