Active Ageing —Another Way to Oppress Marginalized and Disadvantaged Elders?

Ranzijn, Rob

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“…The normative expectations crystallised in active ageing become apparent when focusing on how activities usually linked to old age such as napping become stigmatised (Venn and Arber 2011), or when disadvantaged, relatively inactive groups of elders are marginalised (Ranzijn 2010). Thus active ageing policies have become the target of criticisms for potentially discriminating the dependent (Boudiny 2012), for its inability to integrate the notion of decline (Moulaert & Paris 2013) and for its focus on the young-old (Boudiny & Mortelmans 2011).…”

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“…As we will argue, critical gerontological knowledge has been constructive in its central role in the formation of active ageing, and this has subsequently been criticised for marginalising the passive older people (e.g. Ranzijn 2010). Thus, while many gerontologists see themselves as marginalised and with little political influence on the subject they study, we claim that various forms of gerontological knowledge has been central in the formation of active ageing.…”

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Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing

Lassen

Moreira

2014

Journal of Aging Studies

120

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Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing

Lassen

Moreira

2014

Journal of Aging Studies

120

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“…Populační stárnutí, které je i v českém prostředí dobře popsané [Rabušic 1995], neznamená jen obecně nárůst podílu obyvatel v seniorském věku, ale především velmi progresivní nárůst podílu nejstarších věkových skupin. Stáří často vymezujeme jako věk 60 a více let, což v případě dožití se sta let znamená věkové rozpětí 40 let.…”

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“…pečení buchet či péče o psa [Hasmanová Marhánková 2013]. Nutno také podotknout, že zmiňovaný ideál aktivity je kulturně specifický pro západní společnost a marginalizuje tak i příslušníky minorit [Ranzijn 2010]. Například Lassen a Moreira [2014] volají po větší otevře-nosti aktivního stárnutí vůči lokálním specifikům a specifickým každodenním zvykům.…”

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The Fourth Age as a Specific Field for the Expression of Agency

Kafková¹,

Sedláková²

2017

Czech Sociological Review

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the fourth age as a Specific field for the expression of agency abstract: The concept of the fourth age has until recently been an overlooked topic in social gerontology, which in past decades has focused more closely on the third age. This article provides an overview of commonly applied definitions of the fourth age. It focuses on concepts that do not view the fourth age as an unavoidable stage in life but rather as a stage in which the shared vulnerabilities and responsibilities for care that some older adults may experience need to be recognised. The article devotes a more in-depth discussion to the issue of agency in the fourth age, the possibilities for the existence of agency, and forms of agency. It challenges the idea that the fourth age is a stage in life without agency and argues that agency can be identified through its relational definitions. It also highlights the problems of understanding independence in the context of advanced old age. The article draws attention to the risk of greater polarisation in old age that lies in the positive value ascribed in current social gerontology to the dominant concept of the third age and in associating the negative stereotypes of old age with just the fourth age. The conclusion highlights the problems surrounding the possibility of active ageing in the fourth age.

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“…As critics have demonstrated, attempts to counter old stereotypes of age-related decline and decrepitude with these newer representations have introduced new ways of disciplining later life. It should come as no surprise that 'successful aging' (along with related concepts of 'positive', 'active' and 'healthy' aging) has been robustly criticized for its affinity with neoliberal modes of governance, neglect of structural inequalities, commercialization, and alignment with dividing practices that produce some bodies as unsuccessfully aged [6,8,[21][22][23].…”

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Queering Aging Futures

Sandberg

Marshall

2017

Societies

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This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a 'queering' of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen to adhere to some bodies and subjectivities over others. Drawing on feminist, queer, and crip theories, we build on existing critiques of 'successful aging' to interrogate the assumptions of heteronormativity, able-bodiedness and able-mindedness that shape the dividing lines between success and failure in aging, and which inform attempts to 'repair' damaged futures. Conclusions suggest that recognizing diversity in successful aging futures is important in shaping responses to the challenges of aging societies, and presents an opportunity for critical cultural gerontology to join with its theoretical allies in imagining more inclusive alternatives.

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Active Ageing —Another Way to Oppress Marginalized and Disadvantaged Elders?

Cited by 105 publications

References 30 publications

Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing

Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing

The Fourth Age as a Specific Field for the Expression of Agency

Queering Aging Futures

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