NEGOTIATING AGEING IN A CHANGING INTERGENERATIONAL LANDSCAPE. (11th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Biggs, S
• Is Part Of: Innovation in aging. Volume 2(2018)Supplement 1
• Page Start: 373
• Page End: 374
• Publication Date: 2018-11-11
• Subjects: Aging -- Periodicals; Gerontology -- Periodicals; 612.67
• DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1384
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2399-5300

Abstract

Abstract: The demographics of population ageing are well known, yet cultural adaptation has been slow to gain momentum beyond notions of continuing to stay as one is- either in terms of continued working, midifestyle consumption or resisting changing lifecourse priorities. It is suggested that cultural adaptation contain at least two principal challenges: finding novel purpose and contribution from a long life that are connected to changing lifecourse priorities and negotiating a situation where generational groups are becoming approximately the same size. A numberof tensions will be examined as a means of interrogating this novel landscape: between positive and negative forms of discontinuity, positive forms of othering, within-age and between-age thinking, and, present and lifecourse centred perspectives. Implications social policy and intergenerational relationships will be explored.