This paper examines health and ageing in Australia using the concept of culture as a constitutive human process through which people create specific and different ways of life. Beliefs about and attitudes towards "frailty" and ill health among the old, and their associated practices, form the unifying theme. The ways in which such beliefs and practices are necessarily connected with material social structures and processes (especially class and gender relations) are emphasised.
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