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Reconsidering successful aging
— a call for renewed and expanded academic critiques and conceptualizations | | Author(s) | Heather E Dillaway, Mary Byrnes |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 28, no 6, December 2009 |
| Pages | pp 702-722 |
| Source | http://jag.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Theory. |
| Annotation | Many scholars now critique successful ageing terminology. Nonetheless, there is incomplete analysis of the political motivations behind the development of and/or effects of widespread use of these terms. This article suggests that analysis of the people who developed the terms and the settings within which they work parallels an analysis of the terms themselves and illustrates the continuing negative perception of ageing. This study fleshes out a more thorough critique of the sociopolitical contexts surrounding the successful ageing paradigm so that it can help renew and expand existing critiques. The authors conclude that researchers need to be wary of adopting successful ageing terminology without considering and expanding their understanding of the political motivations and results that accompanies it. New, expanded conceptualisations of successful ageing are needed so that socially minded researchers and practitioners of gerontology do not contribute to ageism and discrimination against older adults. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100301207 A |
| Classmark | BG: CC: 4D |
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