Stretching middle age: the lessons and labours of active ageing in the makeover show

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1069-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Raisborough ◽  
Marian Barnes ◽  
Flis Henwood ◽  
Lizzie Ward
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Critical Gerontology ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Pedagogical Function ◽  
Age Studies

This article responds to the claim that there is a critical neglect of age and ageing across media and television studies. It does so by arguing an exploration of the insights from the fields of critical gerontology/Age Studies and Media Studies allows critical scrutiny of the intersection between populist stereotyping of age, the pedagogic function of the makeover culture, and the prevailing public policy discourses that place responsibility on individuals, notably women, to hold back their old age. This article extends the argument that the pedagogical function of the makeover is to train us into culturally inhabitable bodies, to claim that age shapes what corporeal and cultural dwellings are currently intelligible.

scholarly journals Old Age and Radical History

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (139) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Amanda Ciafone ◽  
Devin McGeehan Muchmore
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Critical Gerontology ◽  
Linked Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Radical History ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
Age Studies ◽  
Universal Stage

Abstract This essay introduces readers to key themes in critical gerontology and age studies and asserts their centrality to contemporary history and politics. Age scholars and critical gerontologists push back against perspectives that individualize and medicalize old age as a natural or universal stage in a singular life course explained solely by biology, psychology, or personal choices. Instead, they challenge us to see contemporary life stages and even chronological age itself as historically and culturally specific structures. The contributions in this issue demonstrate the power of this approach, exploring histories of later life in the context of slave societies, retirement, social movements, and gendered embodiment. Together, contributors model a radical history of old age that centers power, historical struggle, and linked lives.

Attitude towards Health and Fitness of Middle Age and Old Age Citizens of Gwalior

10.26524/1312 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 06-15
Author(s):  
Rajender Singh ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Sonu Kumar ◽  
Prabal Pratap Singh
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Health And Fitness

scholarly journals The media image of Chinese older people: From stigmatic stereotype to diverse self-representation

2021 ◽  
pp. 205943642110125
Author(s):  
Kun Li
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Past Life ◽  
The Media ◽  
Leisure And Recreation ◽  
Chinese Older People

From the perspective of communication and media studies, this article explores a comparison between the image of older adults presented on media and online self-representation facilitated by the use of smartphones. The qualitative textual analysis was conducted with a sample (228 posts, from 1 January to 31 December,2019) selected from a representative WeChat Public Account targeting at older adults in China. The results demonstrate that leisure and recreation is the most frequently mentioned topic (58%) with memories of past life receiving the least references (3%). The striking features of popular posts among older people include a highly emotional tone, bright colours and multimedia. Sentiment analyses shows 68.42%, 13.16% and 18.42% of positive, neutral and negative emotions, respectively. A generally positive attitude of self-representation is in a sharp contrast with the stigmatic media image of older adults. The article concludes that the visibility of Chinese older people may help to reduce the stigma surrounding old age in China.

Old age support in kind

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAZUTOSHI MIYAZAWA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Formal Care ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
Transfer Policy ◽  
Endogenous Growth Model ◽  
Disincentive Effect ◽  
Inter Vivos Transfer

AbstractIt has been argued whether a transfer policy for elderly people should be in kind or in cash. This paper presents a rationale to answer the question in an endogenous growth model with a two-way intrafamily transfer in middle age, education for the child as an inter-vivos transfer, and informal parental care in exchange for a bequest. We have two analytical results. First, a transfer in cash, such as a public pension, prevents economic growth because a strategic behavior concerning caregiving generates a disincentive effect on education. Second, a transfer in kind, such as public formal care, promotes economic growth because the valuation of the service generates an additional benefit of education, which dominates the disincentive effect. Our results show that old age support should be in kind rather than in cash in the context of economic growth and also welfare if bequests are strategic.

Le condizioni contrattuali e previdenziali del lavoro degli anziani: politiche e interventi di attivazione

ARGOMENTI ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 31-58
Author(s):  
Marco Accorinti ◽  
Paolo Calza Bini
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Senior Citizen ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
European Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Study

- Within the research project Overcoming the barriers and seizing the opportunities for Active Ageing Policies in Europe, the Italian part being carried out by the IRPPS-CNR, there has been an in-depth study of the dynamics regarding population ageing and the social security system in Italy, in the light of the notion of activation - one of the main inspiring criteria of the European Employment Strategy. The paper presents comparative European research work that has highlighted the need to deal with the old age - social security link through an integrated group of diversified policies that consider above all employment policies, life schedules and social protection. The text furthermore presents nine European experiments of gradual retirement.Keywords: Senior citizen workers, Social security, Welfare, Leave. Parole Chiave: Lavoratori Anziani, Previdenza, Welfare, Aspettative.

Perceptions of Ideal and Typical Middle and Old Age

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy C. Sherman ◽  
Joel A. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Three Dimensions

An investigation of attitudes toward typical and ideal old age was carried out with seventy-eight undergraduate students. Half of the participants responded to semantic differential scales for typical and ideal old age and half to middle age stimulus objects. The scales were analyzed in terms of three dimensions produced in previous research. No difference was found between the middle and old age conditions for the personal acceptability dimension but differences were found for both the autonomous-dependent and instrumental-ineffective dimensions. The old and middle age objects were rated alike at ideal but the old age object was rated less autonomous and less instrumental at typical.

Personality stability and change over a 30-year period—middle age to old age.

1979 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria R. Leon ◽  
Brenda Gillum ◽  
Richard Gillum ◽  
Marshall Gouze
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Personality Stability
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