Positive ageing, neoliberalism and Australian sociology

Asquith, Nicole L.

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“…It seems that the perspective of many researchers and government bodies on the 'problem' of the ageing population is to focus on how we might avoid the anticipated economic disaster that will arise from the increasing income support and social service provisions for older adults (eg. Asquith 2009 Asquith also suggests that current solutions to population ageing focus on accommodating for the effects of ageing, but that these will not provide the solutions we hope for. While there are currently groups of people who do require assistive technologies, the needs of the next generation of older adults need to be considered and reframed in light of what their unique requirements are.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Regarding societal contribution, Harvey andThurnwald (2009) note (citing Fries 2000;2003 andFries, Koop, Sokolov, Carson andWright 1998) that the longer people can remain actively engaged with society and feel like they are contributing to their communities, the more likely it is that illness and morbidity will be limited to the last few years of their lives. This has the impact of reducing reliance on health care and welfare and demonstrates that ageing need not be the burden on society that so many government publications predict it will be (see Asquith 2009 for a more detailed discussion).…”

Section: Ageing People Can and Do Contribute To Societymentioning

confidence: 96%

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Dispelling ageing myths in technology design

Durick

Robertson

Brereton

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Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration

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We present a review of literature from the fields of gerontology, gerontechnology, HCI and government policy that deals with social and technical solutions for the ageing population. We highlight common assumptions about ageing people, which we argue are still embedded in much of the research related to the domain of ageing. This paper challenges six common assumptions across four broad themes that we identified in the literature. It aims to provide a reminder and resource for designers to eschew assumptions during designing technology for 'older' users.

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confidence: 96%

Dispelling ageing myths in technology design

Durick

Robertson

Brereton

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration

123

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“…What we want to do is try and prevent you from getting sick by helping you take action now." This mirrors a neoliberal approach to the modern welfare state, in particular, active aging programs, which aim to reduce the public health-care HOME CULTURES 184 BUCK CLIFFORD ROSENBERG burden of the aged through personal responsibility and preventative healthcare (Asquith 2009). But where this approach is used by the state to reduce welfare provisions, the scientific lifestyle experts use it here as a means to gain access to the lives of citizens, in order to work upon "correcting" their behavior.…”

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Dangerous Houses

Rosenberg¹

2012

Home Cultures

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The home, in its material and symbolic dimensions, holds a special place within the Anglophone countries of the West as a sphere of privacy and security, of sanctuary. Lifestyle television has played a key role in this process. Yet this article explores how two Australian lifestyle television programs, Is Your House Killing You? and Carbon Cops, present the home as a site of danger, either to the private sphere and its inhabitants or to the broader environmental public sphere. It is argued that such programs play a role in disseminating neoliberal ideologies, encouraging the implementation of governmental regimes to discipline, transform, and ultimately self-regulate householder and consumer behavior. Through such regimes, the subjects produce less dangerous houses, and Downloaded by [New York University] at 17:18 22 June 2015 HOME CULTURES 174 BUCK CLIFFORD ROSENBERG > the home is restored as a sanctuary and site of ontological security.

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“…Yet, one cannot underestimate the dark side of the ''positive aging'' rationale in lifelong learning policies (Asquith, 2009;Slowey, 2008). In educational settings, positive aging operates within an ''individual pathology'' model that sees older adults as deficient following their loss of familial and work responsibilities.…”

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confidence: 98%

Universities of the Third Age

Formosa

2010

Journal of Transformative Education

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This article addresses the political context of third-age learning. It aims to expose how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad combinations and complexities, are manifest in Universities of the Third Age [U3As]. The dominant functionalist approach towards late-life learning is jettisoned in favor of a sociopolitical framework that asks: whose interests are really being served? and, who controls the learning process? It highlights the role of U3As in reproducing unequal relations in later life with special emphasis on positive ageism, elitism, gender, and third ageism. The article ends by proposing a possible way forward away from a neoliberal ideology through a transformative rationale for older adult education based on the values of social justice, social leveling, and social cohesion. Seven principles are forwarded: a transformational agenda, widening participation, critical geragogy, e-learning, preretirement education, intergenerational learning, and fourth age learning.Keywords universities of the third age, older adults, older adult education, critical educational gerontology, late-life learningThe University of the Third Age (U3A) is one of the most successful organizations in providing learning opportunities for older people. U3As can be loosely defined as

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Positive ageing, neoliberalism and Australian sociology

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Cited by 75 publications

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