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Theorizing about aging well — constructing a narrative
Author(s)	Sherry Anne Chapman
Journal title	Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 24, no 1, 2005
Pages	pp 9-18
Source	http://www.utpjournals.com
Keywords	Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Attitude ; Theory ; Literature reviews.
Annotation	Ageing well is new, again. The recent interest is part of a 50-year period of research. Contradictory conceptualisations of ageing well create an opportunity to consider assumptions that underlie the concept. In this paper, through the construction of an ageing well, theorising narrative, an underlying assumption is identified in past ageing-well conceptual frameworks: to age well is to achieve self-integration in relation to particular sets of resources or forms of engagement. The narrative relates how more recent ageing-well theorising is being shaped by a growing interest in later-life meaning-making. Evidence is presented of a contemporary shift toward describing ageing well as the negotiation of the co-construction and reconstruction of multiple selves in an ongoing, open-ended process of meaning-making amid later-life events and transitions. The paper concludes with implications for future research. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050503203 A
Classmark	CC: F:59: DP: 4D: 64A
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