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Self, Society, and the "New Gerontology"
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The "new gerontology," built on the concept of successful aging, sets forth the preconditions for and the end product of the process of aging successfully. Focused on health and active participation in life, it vests largely within individuals the power to achieve this normatively desirable state. While acknowledging the contributions of the scientific base for Rowe and Kahn's successful aging model, we emphasize the need for a more careful examination of the model itself. Using critical gerontology as a primary filter, we critique this normative vision by focusing on its unarticulated (and perhaps unexplored) values, assumptions, and consequences. We argue that these unexamined features may further harm older people, particularly older women, the poor, and people of color who are already marginalized. We conclude by suggesting forms of resistance to this univocal standard.
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“The new gerontology can render invisible important adaptive and other actions that allow people to cope with change (see Baltes & Carstensen, 1996).”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Devaluing of Women's Roles and Acts of Resistance
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The Summary and conclusions says a process-oriented approach reveals that behaviours which appear maladaptive can be adaptive once their function is examined. It contrasts this with approaches focused on prescribed outcomes and normative standards. The paper supports the concern about overlooking adaptive actions, but directs its criticism at outcome-focused approaches, not at the “new gerontology” as a whole; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“In contrast, the new gerontology adopts a prevention model-modify individual behaviors throughout your life and so avoid these decrements and losses.”
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“this approach '''turns on its head' the more traditional research paradigm in which the outside researcher largely determines the questions asked, the tools employed, the interventions developed, and the kinds of results documented and valued''”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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- Not matchedcites Minkler & Wallerstein, 2003
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“the instrumental or preconditions for successful aging have become transformed, as the aforementioned quote suggests, into the concept itself.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Successful Aging and the New Gerontology
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“We argue that these unexamined features may further harm older people, particularly older women, the poor, and people of color who are already marginalized.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Abstract
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“In a few short years, this model has become a central theoretical paradigm within the fields of geriatrics and gerontology.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Successful Aging and the New Gerontology
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“This critical perspective recognizes that, to understand the problems of old age, we must also understand the effects of gender, class, and race analyses”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Calasanti & Slevin, 2001 source
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“Without this foundation present, the ability to age successfully, as defined by Rowe and Kahn, is dependent on chance and social location.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Nussbaum, 1999
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“Similarly, for men who have held low-wage and often demeaning jobs, the pressures to conform to the bodily images and health standards upheld by the new gerontology are yet another form of oppression unnoticed by the more privileged.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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“Norms matter because we are situated selves, embedded in society and culture and resonating with what is valued in the environment.”
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“Although resistance is possible, indeed probable, as situated selves, we can rarely ignore cultural norms in the construction of a self.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“Labeling the pathways to better health in old age as successful aging is too great a leap from a critical perspective.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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“The new gerontology offers another measurable variable to define success, another source of praiseworthy behavior that has currency in a competitive society.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“The ''new gerontology,'' built on the concept of successful aging, sets forth the preconditions for and the end product of the process of aging successfully.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Abstract
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Rowe & Kahn, 1997, 1998
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“Focused on health and active participation in life, it vests largely within individuals the power to achieve this normatively desirable state.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Abstract
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Rowe & Kahn, 1997, 1998
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“Mediating between individuals and their environment, the self is a ''biographically anchored and reflexive project,'' realized in conversations with others and oneself (Dannefer, 2000, p. 272).”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Dannefer, 2000
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“It is the combination [emphasis in the original] of all three-avoidance of disease and disability, maintenance of cognitive and physical function and sustained engagement with life-that represents the concept of successful aging most fully [italics added].(p.39)”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Successful Aging and the New Gerontology
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Rowe & Kahn, 1998
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“Despite its many strengths and contributions, however, the successful aging model and its attendant publicity are problematic.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Successful Aging and the New Gerontology
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“This stance affirms normative value commitments, offering ways to think about-and judge-our choices (now and in the past), actions, and their results.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“To date, alternative perspectives tend to be ghettoized while the dominant culture accepts as the desired norm the tanned, vigorous couple who are bicycle riding on gently rolling hills and dining in the warm glow of candles.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“Understood as an objective, scientific discourse, the new gerontology upholds a certain status, defined primarily in terms of health, and labels those who exemplify these standards as aging successfully.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“CBPR begins with a topic of importance to a community or group and equitably involves all partners in the research process, including the critical final phase of social action to help bring about change”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998 source
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“They further suggested that these three components are hierarchically ordered:”
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“The absence of disease and disability makes it easier to maintain mental and physical function.And maintenance of mental and physical function in turn enables (but does not guarantee) active engagement with life.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Successful Aging and the New Gerontology
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Rowe & Kahn, 1998
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“Cultural images, representations, symbols, and metaphors are important means to withhold or to express social recognition; they offer the cultural imagery from which we construct identities (Mackenzie, 2000).”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Mackenzie, 2000
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“Rowe and Kahn (1998) argued that three conditions or characteristics are necessary preconditions for successful aging: (a) the avoidance of disease and disability; (b) the maintenance of high physical and cognitive functional capacity; and (c) ''active engagement in life.''”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Successful Aging and the New Gerontology
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Rowe & Kahn, 1998
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“While the new gerontology acknowledges that we cannot be solely responsible for how we age, it then sets aside the many factors that intimately interact with our individual biographies, the core subject with which it is concerned.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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“although well-constructed scientific experiments can provide much needed information about what we must do (if we are able) to have a relatively healthy old age, it cannot tell us what makes that life a good one.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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“Nor are we able to easily dissent, as individuals, from culture.”
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“The theologian Rosemary Reuther observed, ''alternate cultures and communities must be built up to support the dissenting consciousness''”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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- Not matchedcites Heilbrun, 1999
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“Making autonomous choices requires a wide range of experiences and knowledge and the ability to put these resources to work.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Meyers, 1989
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“A gender analysis would thus take issue with blaming language and the meanings embedded within it; it would have us critically examine the new gerontology's tendency to put further demands on older women without taking their biography or context sufficiently into account.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > A Critical Conceptual Framework
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“At the same time, and precisely through its failure to take into account the unacknowledged role of broader sociostructural and environmental forces, this viewpoint transforms the particular into the universal and absolves social and political institutions of their responsibilities for the health and wellbeing of residents.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Conclusion
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“As Blaikie (1999) has argued, the ''constant quest for youth, in stigmatizing [sic] the old and sick, casts off these people as human failures'' (p.109).”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > The ''Problems'' of Feasibility and Disability
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- Not matchedcites Blaikie, 1999
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“Health, as a normative standard, calls for certain virtues-diligence, caution, and perhaps a touch of solipsism.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“A major contribution of Rowe and Kahn's paradigm lay in its message that many of the losses associated with ''usual aging'' are not ''normal'' aspects of aging at all but are caused primarily by extrinsic factors, such as poor diet and lack of exercise, and therefore are subject to alteration.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > The ''Problems'' of Feasibility and Disability
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“As suggested earlier, the MacArthur Foundation Study of Successful Aging led by Rowe and Kahn made a critical contribution in helping to provide a strong empirical base for the utility of a variety of health-promoting practices and behaviors throughout life and in old age.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Conclusion
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“By suggesting that the great majority of those elders in wheelchairs could indeed have been on cross-country skis had they but made the right choices and practiced the right behaviors can burden rather than liberate older people.”
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“Ruth Ray (1999) suggested transgressive storytelling that encourages women to move beyond the circumscribed narrative conventions that tell them what their stories ought to be about.Women, through these stories, can redefine problems, elevate new problems, or include previously excluded forms of knowing.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Boundary Crossing
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“If the ideal is not practically feasible for all, or even most, people-even with the best intentions-then it serves to further privilege the already privileged, a danger that a feminist perspective identifies.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > The ''Problems'' of Feasibility and Disability
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“if how we live determines how we age, and if how we live is shaped by many factors beyond individual choice, then success is far harder to come by for some than for others.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“A critical perspective does not end with study.It is committed to remedying the underlying conditions that place certain people at the margins.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Boundary Crossing
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“The use of the term ''successful,'' however, shifts that intention to help people stay as well as possible to something much larger.”
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“In the policy arena, the notion that health and wellbeing in old age are largely in the hands of individuals can do further damage.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Potential Problems for Policy
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“However, normative terms such as successful aging are not neutral; they are laden with comparative, either-or, hierarchically ordered dimensions.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“This exaggerated emphasis on the degree to which we can control the body contributes to and denies older people with functional limitations, most of whom are women, the dignity of their struggle to accept what they cannot change.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > The ''Problems'' of Feasibility and Disability
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“When the tasks essential to aging successfully are vested in the individual aging person, the young and the middle-aged hear about these splendid people who have aged so well and wonder why all the fuss about old age in America.”
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“These features that mark many a woman's moral life neither gain approbation from the wider society nor give her the leisure to tend to the specifics of health maintenance that contribute to successful aging by the criterion that Rowe and Kahn set forth.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Devaluing of Women's Roles and Acts of Resistance
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- Rests on an assumption: Older women experience a greater burden of chronic illness and functional limitations and far higher poverty rates, and societal norms assign higher value to physical appearance and youthful attractiveness among women.
- Rests on an assumption: Many women have lived by the norms of their own more intimate society, being responsible for others and attending to the everyday business of life.
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“Ironically, we are successfully old when we conform to society's needs; placing responsibility on the individual mitigates demands on social resources across our lives.”
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“The tyranny of youth-preserving technologies and lifestyles that demand more and more time and money hinders a respectful attitude toward old age.”
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“Unfortunately, too many people-most often the already marginalized-come up on the wrong side of the hierarchy and the either-or divide.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Older women, poor people, and people of color are already marginalized.
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“What was initially affirmed as the preconditions for effective functioning in old agethe foundation on which many varieties of life choices may flourish-in an almost imperceptible move became the concept of successful aging.The foundation became the entirety.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Applying These Perspectives to the New Gerontology
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“Nevertheless, the equation of good health with successful aging (and by extension, disability and poor health with failure) together with the simplistic popularization of these proscriptive views in the mass and popular culture fail to honor the many ways in which individuals face the physiological, emotional, or contextual changes that accompany aging.”
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“It offers continuity, but old age is also importantly about transformation as we learn to accept what we cannot change, rage when we must, and adopt new ways of life as needed.”
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“Exceptionalism-''I made it, why can't you''-is, in our minds, a failing strategy.It does nothing to eliminate larger patterns of oppression, in which certain individuals and groups lack the advantages privileged groups possess by virtue of their social location (Calasanti, 1996).”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Potential Problems for Policy
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“This view omits the natural lottery imposed by genetics, the general contingencies of human life, and the more specific damages (and often strengths) that marginalization and oppression bequeath to many individuals.”
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“At a minimum, it reduces old age to the most basic norms, less than we would accept at other times of our lives.”
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“These concepts tell us what is worthwhile (on different levels of our lives) and give us criteria by which to evaluate our lives.”
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“Biomedicine, as important as it is, does not see the luminous moments that offer promise despite uncertainty and the proximity of death.Its tools cannot diagnose the mischief the very term ''successful'' can do, particularly in a competitive, youth-driven society.”
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“Looking old and suffering from disabling conditions become personal failures, thereby compounding the ''problem'' of aging and contributing to often self-defeating strategies to preserve ''youthfulness'' and so appear ''not old'' (Calasanti & Slevin, 2001).”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > The ''Problems'' of Feasibility and Disability
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“By clarifying the moral and political legitimacy of the changes necessary to remedy these conditions, it contributes to the possibilities for change.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Boundary Crossing
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“Such activism would challenge the hegemonic voice of the new gerontology, whose narrow focus on what individuals can do for themselves fails to address the broader social context that inevitably influences how older people experience old age.”
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“In this way, it may further diminish policy attention to the need for greater engagement with these issues in a rapidly aging society.”
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“In an interesting irony, had Rowe and Kahn not labeled their landmark work as ''successful aging,'' it may well have remained what it in essence is-a careful, empirically grounded account of how to help individuals stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible.”
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“When norms consider frailty and disability as reflections of failure, they reinforce ''cultural fears of bodily suffering (and thus of people who are 'old') and [promote] inadequate policy responses'' at the same time that they blame people whose bodies are proverbially ''out of control'' (Kennedy & Minkler, 1999;Morell, 2003;Wendell, 1996).”
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“Eating properly, exercising regularly, and not smoking are connected directly to a goal of good health, a goal that, we suspect, most would treasure.”
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“successful aging is dependent upon individual choices and behaviors.It can be attained through individual choice and effort [italics added]'' (Rowe & Kahn, 1998, p. 37).”
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“Such narratives can give license to heterodox perceptions-the ''aha'' phenomenon of seeing a problem differently-that contribute to redefining familiar situations and hence opening the possibilities for action.”
§ Self, Society, and the ''New Gerontology'' > Boundary Crossing
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Older women, poor people, and people of color are already marginalized.
“particularly older women, the poor, and people of color who are already marginalized.”
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Success is a valued attribute in American society.
“Success, a valued attribute in American society, is generally visible and measurable”
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The dominant culture accepts the tanned, vigorous, bicycle-riding couple as the desired norm.
“the dominant culture accepts as the desired norm the tanned, vigorous couple who are bicycle riding on gently rolling hills”
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Critical and positivistic discourses can inform one another.
“We believe that these discourses can indeed inform one another.”
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Contextual features shape the conditions of possibility for individuals and determine how they choose what to value.
“These contextual features, at a minimum, shape the conditions of possibility for individuals and determine how they choose what to value.”
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Older women experience a greater burden of chronic illness and functional limitations and far higher poverty rates, and societal norms assign higher value to physical appearance and youthful attractiveness among women.
“The greater burden of chronic illness and functional limitations they experience and their far higher poverty rates couple with differential societal norms that continue to assign a higher value to physical appearance and ''youthful physical attractiveness'' among women.”
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Many women have lived by the norms of their own more intimate society, being responsible for others and attending to the everyday business of life.
“However, many women have lived by the norms of their own more intimate society, being responsible for others and attending to the everyday business of life, whether that meant scrubbing floors or caring for a dying parent or a grandchild.”
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The mass and popular culture simplistically popularize proscriptive views of successful aging.
“together with the simplistic popularization of these proscriptive views in the mass and popular culture”
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BackgroundPavlova, M. K., & Silbereisen, R. Κ. (2015) · Research on Aging · doi:10.1177/0164027515573026 · Cited by 26
“Contrary to the apprehensions of some scholars (Denninger et al., 2012; Holstein & Minkler, 2003; Pavlova & Silbereisen, 2012b), an apparent lack of fit between perceived activation demands and one’s own situation (i.e., not working, not volunteering) was beneficial, rather than detrimental, to…”
BackgroundResultInfluentialDesigualdades sociais em indicadores de envelhecimento ativo: estudo de base populacional
Sousa, N. F. D. S., Lima, M. G., & Barros, M. B. D. A. (2021) · Ciência & Saúde Coletiva · doi:10.1590/1413-812320212611.3.24432019 · Cited by 23
“Perspectives on Labour and Income 2010; 11(7):5-18.”
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem
Fletcher, J. R., Zubair, M., & Roche, M. (2021) · The Sociological Review · doi:10.1177/00380261211059920 · Cited by 24
“Appeals to ‘normal ageing’ have traditionally been used to apply authors’ values to older people, and have been criticised as problematically universalist and normative (Holstein & Minkler, 2003; Martinson & Berridge, 2014).”
HIGGS, P. F. D., & Gilleard, C. J. (2022) · Journal of Aging Studies · doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101051 · Cited by 23
Lestari, M. D., Stephens, C. V., & Morison, T. (2021) · Ageing and Society · doi:10.1017/s0144686x20001907 · Cited by 37
“Under the influence of the ‘successful ageing’ discourse, older people are required to be active and fit as part of a preventive approach to health care and declining health can be constructed as personal failure (Minkler, 1990; Holstein and Minkler, 2003; van Dyk, 2014; Baars, 2017).”
BackgroundPetersen, N., & Schicktanz, S. (2021) · Qualitative Health Research · doi:10.1177/10497323211014844 · Cited by 21
“…forms of ageisms which replace the earlier general angst of aging with a specific fear of frailty, inability, and loss of cognitive abilities (Holstein & Minkler, 2003), and reinforce a devaluation of those who, due to physical and cognitive decline, can no longer comply with the ideal of…”
BackgroundReablement in need of theories of ageing: would theories of successful ageing do?
Thuesen, J., Feiring, M., Doh, D., & Westendorp, R. G. J. (2021) · Ageing and Society · doi:10.1017/s0144686x21001203 · Cited by 22
“By equating ‘successful’ with the absence of disease and disease-related disability and with high cognitive and physical functional capacity, the paradigm is producing as its opposite an un-successful ageing, which is the presence of disease and disability and low functional capacity (Holstein and Minkler, 2003).”
BackgroundInfluentialSuccessful Aging and Longevity in Older Old Women: The Role of Depression and Cognition
Paulson, D. L., Bowen, M. E., & Lichtenberg, P. A. (2011) · Journal of Aging Research · doi:10.4061/2011/912680 · Cited by 23
“While support for this theory of successful aging has been mixed [5, 6], it provides a useful framework for examining longevity.”
BackgroundHappy, stable and contented: accomplished ageing in the imagined futures of young New Zealanders
Patterson, L., Forbes, K., & Peace, R. (2009) · Ageing and Society · doi:10.1017/s0144686x08007940 · Cited by 23
“As critics have noted, the NewGerontology is premised on individuals making the ‘right ’ choices in order to ‘age well ’ through a homogeneous imagery of ‘ successful ageing’ as a normative moral and physical state (Holstein and Minkler 2003).”
BackgroundInfluentialSuccessful Aging in the United States and China
Ji, H. L., Ling, J., & McCarthy, V. L. (2014) · Journal of Transcultural Nursing · doi:10.1177/1043659614526257 · Cited by 21
“One result of lack of criteria in the social, environmental, and spiritual domains was that socioeconomic and racial minorities were largely excluded from the potential for successful aging (Du & Andrews, 2003; Holstein & Minkler, 2003; Li et al., 2006).”
BackgroundLyle, S., Williamson, E. M., Darton, F., Griffiths, F. E., & Lamb, S. E. (2016) · Disability and Rehabilitation · doi:10.1080/09638288.2016.1177611 · Cited by 24
What Are the Structural Barriers to Planning for Later Life? A Scoping Review of the Literature
Preston, C., Drydakis, N., Forwood, S., et al. (2019) · Social Inclusion · doi:10.17645/si.v7i3.1883 · Cited by 20
“As a result, many argue that the successful ageing paradigm fails to take full account of the socio-economic structuring of planning (e.g., Holstein & Minkler, 2003; Katz & Calasanti, 2014; Moffatt & Heaven, 2017; Street & Desai, 2011).”
Backgroundvan Dyk, S. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-06600-0_3 · Cited by 20
Potentiality made workable – exploring logics of care in reablement for older people
Bødker, M. (2018) · Ageing and Society · doi:10.1017/s0144686x18000417 · Cited by 22
Manifestations of Internalized Ageism in Older Adult Learning
Formosa, M. (2021) · University of Toronto Quarterly · doi:10.3138/utq.90.2.08 · Cited by 23
In Search of Immortality: The Political Economy of Anti-aging Medicine
Petersen, A. R., & Seear, K. (2009) · Medicine Studies · doi:10.1007/s12376-009-0020-x · Cited by 20
Papparotto, C., Bidoli, E., & Palese, A. (2013) · Research in Gerontological Nursing · doi:10.3928/19404921-20130528-01 · Cited by 20
Cross-cultural gerontology research methods: challenges and solutions
Chi, I. (2011) · Ageing and Society · doi:10.1017/s0144686x10000942 · Cited by 22
“For instance, ageing in the West is a cause for anxiety and managed by attempts to forestall the associated inevitable physical and mental declines (Andrews 1999; Cardona 2008; Holstein and Minkler 2003).”
BackgroundQueering ‘Successful Ageing’, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Research
Bülow, M. H., & Holm, M. (2016) · Body & Society · doi:10.1177/1357034x16649243 · Cited by 19
“Apart from effectively excluding individuals with disability from achieving success (Holstein and Minkler, 2003; Minkler, 1990), these norms also beg Thomas Cole’s question of how to deal with their (inevitable) failure.”
BackgroundProcessing speed and working memory are predicted by components of successful aging: a HUNT study
Bosnes, I., Bosnes, O., Stordal, E., Nordahl, H. M., Myklebust, T. Å., & Almkvist, O. (2022) · BMC Psychology · doi:10.1186/s40359-022-00718-7 · Cited by 21
“However, the model can be criticized for its weight on diseases and too little focus on layman perspectives [15] and for not fully appreciating the importance of structural factors for health like income and other factors [16].”
BackgroundThe Environmental Production of Disability for Seniors with Age-Related Vision Loss
McGrath, C., Rudman, D. L., Spafford, M. M., et al. (2017) · Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement · doi:10.1017/s0714980816000623 · Cited by 19
“Critical gerontology aims to question taken-for-granted assumptions about what it means to age well and “the seemingly un-refl exive ways in which gerontological knowledge is created” (Holstein & Minkler, 2003 , p. 789).”
BackgroundBecoming and being an older adult: A mixed methods study of the lived experience of aging
Washburn, A. M., & Williams, S. S. (2020) · Journal of Aging Studies · doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2020.100871 · Cited by 21
Successful Aging in Colombia: The Role of Disease
Curcio, C., Pineda, A., Quintero, P., Rojas, Á., Muñoz, S. L., & Gómez, F. (2018) · Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine · doi:10.1177/2333721418804052 · Cited by 24
“This definition has been heavily critiqued (Holstein & Minkler, 2003; Katz & Calasanti, 2015; Martinson & Berridge, 2015; Rubinstein & de Medeiros, 2015; Stowe & Cooney, 2015).”
BackgroundKnowing Death Well: Intimate and Contextual Death Competence among End-of-Life Laborers
Erickson, K. A. (2016) · Journal of Contemporary Ethnography · doi:10.1177/0891241616652218 · Cited by 19
Caldeira, C. M., Nurain, N., Heintzman, A. A., Molchan, H., Caine, K. E., Demiris, G., Siek, K. A., Reeder, B., & Connelly, K. (2023) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3610029 · Cited by 26
“Successful aging is portrayed as an accomplishment of the individual, where youthful-ness is achievable through personal effort, erasing the role of systematic marginalization and the myriad of other factors that shape the aging experience [52, 82].”
BackgroundEnvelhecimento bem-sucedido: trajetórias de um constructo e novas fronteiras
de Lima, Â. M. M., da Silva, H. S., & Galhardoni, R. (2008) · Interface - Comunicação Saúde Educação · doi:10.1590/s1414-32832008000400010 · Cited by 18
Carr, D. C., Wellin, C., & Reece, H. R. (2009) · Journal of Aging Humanities and the Arts · doi:10.1080/19325610903134496 · Cited by 19
“However, the meaning of such activities is defined neither by individual expression or specific therapeutic value, so much as by their role in facilitating informal social contacts in settings where time, resources, and expertise are limited (see Holstein & Minkler, 2003).”
BackgroundInfluentialXu, J., He, L., & Chen, H. (2019) · European Journal of Ageing · doi:10.1007/s10433-019-00527-9 · Cited by 18
The beautification of men within skincare advertisements: A multimodal critical discourse analysis
Kenalemang, L. M. (2023) · Journal of Aging Studies · doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101153 · Cited by 17
McGrath, C., Rudman, D. L., Trentham, B., Polgar, J. M., & Spafford, M. M. (2016) · Disability and Rehabilitation · doi:10.1080/09638288.2016.1212116 · Cited by 17
“Emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology has become a recognized field [77] that has succeeded in taking up critical theory to re-conceptualize aging and question the taken for granted assumptions about what it means to ‘‘age well’’.[78] Critical gerontology is based within concerns regarding ‘‘the dominance of a b…”
BackgroundHendricks, J. A., & Hatch, L. R. (2006) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-012088388-2/50020-1 · Cited by 22
Gangopadhyay, J. (2016) · Ageing International · doi:10.1007/s12126-016-9271-5 · Cited by 19
Culture, Ageing and the Construction of Pain
Lane, P., & Smith, D. (2018) · Geriatrics · doi:10.3390/geriatrics3030040 · Cited by 16
“Moreover, Holstein and Minkler have suggested that this has simply created a new ageism that ‘replaces an earlier generalized dread of ageing with a more specific fear of ageing with a disability’ [27].”
BackgroundLakomý, M. (2021) · International Sociology · doi:10.1177/0268580921993326 · Cited by 17
“These characteristics include gender, ethnicity (Holstein and Minkler, 2003), age, socioeconomic status (Serrat et al.”
BackgroundHarnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife
Barbee, H. (2022) · Journal of Aging Studies · doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101008 · Cited by 18
Stephens, C. V., & Breheny, M. (2018) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315639093 · Cited by 32
Active Ageing: Developing a Quantitative Multidimensional Measure
Buys, L. R., & Miller, E. (2011) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2111-1_7 · Cited by 18
The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults
Kafková, M. P. (2018) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_4 · Cited by 17
Ageing versus active aging: how old age is represented in children’s books
Avcı, C., & Erhan, G. (2022) · Educational Gerontology · doi:10.1080/03601277.2021.2024399 · Cited by 15
“Holstein and Minkler (2003) argue that the active aging framework creates a ‘new ageism’ that ‘replaces an earlier generalized dread of ageing with a more specific fear of ageing with a disability’ (p. 793).”
BackgroundPlace Familiarity and Community Ageing-with-Place in Urban Neighbourhoods
Fung, J. C. (2019) · Advances in 21st century human settlements · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7048-9_8 · Cited by 15
Oh, D. (2012) · Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · doi:10.4040/jkan.2012.42.3.311 · Cited by 15
“이는 활동에 대한 참여 정도와 그 것에 대한 친밀감의 수준을 삶의 만족, 즉 성공노화의 가장 중요한 요인으로 보고 있는 활동이론(activity theory)에 근거하여 사회적 활 동을 주로 설명하고 있기 때문이다(Holstein & Minkler, 2003).”
Shin, J. (2014) · American Journal of Community Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10464-014-9650-6 · Cited by 16
“Throughout this endeavor, the study embraces the voices of elders as the first and most important informants of gerontological knowledge (Holstein and Minkler 2003).”
BackgroundIntroducing an Equal Rights Framework for Older Persons in Residential Care
Jönson, H., & Harnett, T. (2015) · The Gerontologist · doi:10.1093/geront/gnv039 · Cited by 18
“…as an alternative to a decline and loss paradigm, normative divisions based on function have been criticized for being a “new ageism” that associates success and failure during old age with the absence or presence of illness and impairments (Holstein & Minkler, 2003; Peterson & Martin, 2015).”
BackgroundAGING AMERICA AND THE BOOMER WARS
Moody, H. R. (2008) · The Gerontologist · doi:10.1093/geront/48.6.839 · Cited by 15
Chao, A. A., Pastor, B. G., & Viñado, C. (2012) · Critical Social Policy · doi:10.1177/0261018312449810 · Cited by 14
Embodiment and aging in contemporary physiotherapy
Hay, M. E., Connelly, D. M., & Kinsella, E. A. (2016) · Physiotherapy Theory and Practice · doi:10.3109/09593985.2016.1138348 · Cited by 16
“Despite positive intentions of resisting fatalistic, biomedical narratives of decline with age, it may be equally dangerous to promote the possibility of individual choice to maintain physical fitness, functional independence, and engagement with life, and thereby age “successfully” (Holstein and Minkler, 2003; Hurd,…”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Holstein, M. B., & Minkler, M.
- Affiliations
- DePaul University (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Holstein, M. B.
- ORCID
- Minkler, M.
- Venue
- The Gerontologist
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-12-01
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 787-796
- ISSN
- 0016-9013 (ISSN-L)
- 1758-5341
- OpenAlex
- W2114713121
- Cited by
- 503
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 27
- FWCI
- 7.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Gerontologist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Keywords
- successful aging, critical gerontology, Rowe and Kahn model, older women, poverty, racial and ethnic minorities, aging
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Geriatrics, Health Promotion, Health Status, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Spirituality
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